A new CPU miner is now available, making use of the new ‘getwork’ RPC command. In the beginning, this is intended largely to demonstrate a ‘getwork’ miner.  It is written in straight C, with minimal dependencies (libcurl, jansson). It has successfully generated blocks on testnet, mainnet and almost all pools. […]

Quote from: satoshi on November 24, 2010, 17:21:01 – It does not return work when you submit a possible hit, only when called without parameter. It would be immensely useful if you’d return if what I sent to the client actually was an actual hit. It makes it easier to […]

Who’s in charge of the OSX build? Given it usually lags behind I assume it is done by someone not using OSX as the primary OS. I can help with this if that’s the case, just point me to how things are done right now. Laszlo does them, but I […]

Version 0.3.17 is now available. Changes: – new getwork, thanks m0mchil – added transaction fee setting in UI options menu – free transaction limits – sendtoaddress returns transaction id instead of “sent” – getaccountaddress <account> The UI transaction fee setting was easy since it was still there from 0.1.5 and […]

It appears that blk0001.dat, where bitcoin stores block chain information, is compatible across Windows, Linux, 32-bit and 64-bit. Therefore, why not save new users some time by shipping blocks 1-74000 with each release? Presumably, indexing and verifying a local file would be faster, and use fewer network resources, than downloading […]

Hi m0mchil, firstly thank you for your work. Is there any way to include getwork patch into official client? I’m using bitcoin on old centos server and compiling is pain here! A revised version of getwork is now in the official client, but the miners need to be updated a […]

Quote from: jgarzik on November 24, 2010, 04:47:42 I suspect something weird going on with ByteReverse (or lack thereof). It’s quite unclear whether or not ‘data’ and ‘nonce’ must be byte-reversed, and in what way. getwork does the byte-reversing.  midstate, data and hash1 are already big-endian, and you pass data […]

I understand the use case for external miners, but I rather like the all-in-one approach. Will I still be able to compile in my own mining code? I really enjoyed the revamped interface you introduced some time ago, and would very much like to keep on using it. It’s not […]

I uploaded a redesign of m0mchil’s getwork to SVN rev 189 (version 31601) m0mchil’s external bitcoin miner idea has solved a lot of problems.  GPU programming is immature and hard to compile, and I didn’t want to add additional dependencies to the build.  getwork allows these problems to be solved […]

Quote from: m0mchil on November 20, 2010, 10:16:19 updated to SVN 186 Thanks m0mchil for keeping up on the updates! GPU miners, please upgrade as soon as possible to shut down the free transaction abuse!  This version has the new priority-based limit on free transaction spam. Quote from: m0mchil on […]