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From: Wladimir <laanwj@gmail.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin miner heads-up: "getwork" RPC going away
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2014 10:29:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+s+GJDQJk_37EruYkc41YfAgA__ntubwKVGM=15K03LRE+6tQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJHLa0OW9TeJrh6J8mAnx8Zy0i+AoF_1Mrp0Wn+5kZGex3_uJg@mail.gmail.com>

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 .

Wladimir



  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-07  8:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-07  1:55 [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin miner heads-up: "getwork" RPC going away Jeff Garzik
2014-06-07  8:29 ` Wladimir [this message]
2014-06-21 15:14   ` Pieter Wuille

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