Be patient, young padawan.
Thank you master Yoda, I will. For my ally is the Bitcoin. And a powerful ally it is. Raw computing power creates it, makes it grow. Its utility as a digital currency surrounds us... and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this... crude matter! You must feel the Bitcoin around you. Here, between you, me, our computers, the internet... everywhere! May the Bitcoin be with you all. 
Topic: Do I have to turn on Generate Coins to do so? (Read 1627 times)
Be patient, young padawan.
No, you don't have to turn it on. The time to generate a block varies widely -- don't worry if it's only a few days off.
Seems an obvious question, no? I am running 2 GPU's at about 275mhash/second each. I am running Bitcoin in server mode. I previously was involved in pooled mining at bitcoin.cz and made 20 bitcoins. I was apparently one who did find a block in one round, so things are working. However, running locally, I have not yet hit a block of 50 and I have now gone over the average time to find a block on my own. I do not have "generate coins" on in the application, which I do not want to do, since use of the CPU only slows down my 2 GPU's by over an amount added by the CPU. So it's not on and I haven't generated a block for myself and I'm hoping that is coincidence. I don't want to find out a week down the line, "Hey stupid, you have to turn on "generate coins" in the app." It would seem you don't since it is doing the hashes and therefore working.
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