Topic: setgenerate true - how to know when you find something (Read 1337 times)
legendary
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Reverse engineer from time to time
The setgenerate command usually uses an unoptimized and slow algorithm, in the face of GPUs you'd be better off not using it.
So, I use pools to do my mining. But in the older days, or using the next altcoin that has came out, sometimes you can solo mine and get some coins?
Using the "setgenerate true -1" command, if you were to mine a coin if you will, how will you know when you do so? Will it just appear in your wallet or will it show in your transactions as pending?
This is a question I always wanted to ask. Thanks.
Hello,Using the "setgenerate true -1" command, if you were to mine a coin if you will, how will you know when you do so? Will it just appear in your wallet or will it show in your transactions as pending?
This is a question I always wanted to ask. Thanks.
When you solo mining you receive it as a transaction in your wallet. I managed to mine some particles back in the days, but I did it at the coin release and all the blocks i got was orphan and appeared as unconfirmed transactions for just a moment and then were gone :/
Hope i helped:)
BR
Gondel
Great explanation! And to clarify (for me and all others who might find this post via search engines), an orphaned or "stale" block is a block that has already been solved by someone else. Example, everyone in the world is working on block 12345. If I solve it about 4 seconds before you do, then I will get the block and yours will be orphaned because your wallet did not update fast enough to note the change to the next block before you solved it right?
So, I use pools to do my mining. But in the older days, or using the next altcoin that has came out, sometimes you can solo mine and get some coins?
Using the "setgenerate true -1" command, if you were to mine a coin if you will, how will you know when you do so? Will it just appear in your wallet or will it show in your transactions as pending?
This is a question I always wanted to ask. Thanks.
Hello,Using the "setgenerate true -1" command, if you were to mine a coin if you will, how will you know when you do so? Will it just appear in your wallet or will it show in your transactions as pending?
This is a question I always wanted to ask. Thanks.
When you solo mining you receive it as a transaction in your wallet. I managed to mine some particles back in the days, but I did it at the coin release and all the blocks i got was orphan and appeared as unconfirmed transactions for just a moment and then were gone :/
Hope i helped:)
BR
Gondel
So, I use pools to do my mining. But in the older days, or using the next altcoin that has came out, sometimes you can solo mine and get some coins?
Using the "setgenerate true -1" command, if you were to mine a coin if you will, how will you know when you do so? Will it just appear in your wallet or will it show in your transactions as pending?
This is a question I always wanted to ask. Thanks.
Using the "setgenerate true -1" command, if you were to mine a coin if you will, how will you know when you do so? Will it just appear in your wallet or will it show in your transactions as pending?
This is a question I always wanted to ask. Thanks.
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