Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin miner heads-up: "getwork" RPC going away

2014-06-21 Thread Pieter Wuille
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Wladimir wrote: > On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 3:55 AM, Jeff Garzik 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 "getblocktemplat

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin miner heads-up: "getwork" RPC going away

2014-06-07 Thread Wladimir
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 3:55 AM, Jeff Garzik 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

[Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin miner heads-up: "getwork" RPC going away

2014-06-06 Thread Jeff Garzik
"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"