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From: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail•com>
To: Wladimir <laanwj@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin miner heads-up: "getwork" RPC going away
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 17:14:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPg+sBjDjA3+1GbBCEKx+vgjmJr1mHUiw3uZO6_DtwKL4RLTMg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+s+GJDQJk_37EruYkc41YfAgA__ntubwKVGM=15K03LRE+6tQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Wladimir <laanwj@gmail•com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 3:55 AM, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay•com> wrote:
>> As such, it is planned to remove "getwork" in the next release.  Most
>> if not all pool servers have switched away from "getwork" years ago.
>
> To be clear, they switched to "getblocktemplate" and "submitblock"
> which provides a much more flexible and scalable way to do mining.
> This is explained in https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Getblocktemplate .

As there doesn't seem to be any objection, we may go ahead and merge
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4100 (which among other things
removes the getwork RPC).

-- 
Pieter



      reply	other threads:[~2014-06-21 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-07  1:55 Jeff Garzik
2014-06-07  8:29 ` Wladimir
2014-06-21 15:14   ` Pieter Wuille [this message]

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