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From: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com>
To: Frank F <frankf44@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: remove "getwork" RPC from bitcoind
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 22:14:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPg+sBjMdZfHpZrvHwMx6oQsS0yJaXVjTnyRwf6VCdnWTHQZaw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALxyHsXoCqL8dNXeayibfbR7-JU6Ke19gJJ1fToboULdUa155Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Frank F <frankf44@gmail.com> wrote:
> I strongly object to removing the only mechanism that allows anyone to say
> that bitcoin is p2p, in the truest sense of the word. Moves like this that
> favor only the pool operators and private mining interests are signs that
> bitcoin is headed towards a monopoly/cartel model, and that would be a
> tragic outcome for something that holds a great promise. Nobody knows what
> mining will look like in the future, and denying the individual novice the
> ability to mine at a small scale, even if we may think it is inefficient
> now, is not a good path to start down.
>
> If there are technical problems with getwork, maybe they should be addressed
> and fixed instead of outright abandoned.

They were addressed and fixed in a successor API, getblocktemplate.
It's even more decentralization-friendly, as it allows the caller to
see what transactions the daemon is trying to put into a block, and
even modify it.

The suggestion here is not to remove functionality - only to remove an
obsolete API for doing so.

-- 
Pieter



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-08-19 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-19 16:27 [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: remove "getwork" RPC from bitcoind Jeff Garzik
2013-08-19 20:09 ` Frank F
2013-08-19 20:13   ` Luke-Jr
2013-08-19 20:14   ` Pieter Wuille [this message]
2013-08-19 20:16     ` Frank F
2013-08-19 20:16   ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-08-19 20:18     ` Frank F
2013-08-19 20:23     ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-08-19 20:33       ` Warren Togami Jr.
2013-08-19 20:34         ` Jeff Garzik
2013-08-19 23:02           ` Andreas Schildbach
2013-08-19 23:30             ` Warren Togami Jr.
2013-08-19 20:15 ` Matt Corallo
2013-08-19 20:22 Goss, Brian C., M.D.
2013-08-19 21:07 ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-08-19 22:49   ` Jorge Timón
     [not found] <mailman.167053.1376954386.4583.bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
2013-08-21 21:24 ` Ron
2013-08-21 21:39   ` rob.golding
2013-08-22  9:36     ` Maciej Trebacz
2013-08-22 13:18       ` Jeff Garzik
2013-08-22 13:33         ` Mike Hearn
2013-08-22 15:30           ` Wladimir

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