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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: remove "getwork" RPC from
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On 08/19/2013 10:34 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote:

>> FWIW, Litecoin 0.8.x entirely removed the internal miner and we warned
>> people that getwork will be removed in the next major version.  Pooler's CPU
>> minerd which supports both sha256d and scrypt recently grew stratum support.
>> Perhaps he could be convinced to add GBT support too, which would help this
>> goal of completely removing the internal miner and getwork.
> 
> The internal miner is still actively used for testnet, here.

Here, too. If I'm too impatient to wait for the next block that is.

I think it'd be a pity if the easy way to mine blocks would be removed.