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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay.com>
To: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin miner heads-up: "getwork" RPC going away
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 21:55:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJHLa0OW9TeJrh6J8mAnx8Zy0i+AoF_1Mrp0Wn+5kZGex3_uJg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

"getwork" has long been unused on mainnet, and mostly unused elsewhere
as well.  It generates work by a method that cannot keep up with the
demands of the modern network.

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.

-- 
Jeff Garzik
Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist
BitPay, Inc.      https://bitpay.com/



             reply	other threads:[~2014-06-07  1:55 UTC|newest]

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

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