Topic: What does Gen=1 mean? (Read 1226 times)
It's a deprecated option to enable built-in CPU mining for the bitcoin client. It is extremely slow, and it's only solo mining (no pool). It was useful back in the day when difficulty for a block was 1, but with GPU and ASIC being hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands or more times faster and more efficient than a CPU, it is entirely unwise to even enable this option.
Bitcoin generation was removed from the client over two years ago.
I think it relate to when miners where using bitcoind for CPU mining. It's basically useless and inefficient now.
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I understand that it means:
# Set gen=1 to attempt to generate bitcoins
#gen=0
So do you want that set to Gen=1 when mining or not?
# Set gen=1 to attempt to generate bitcoins
#gen=0
So do you want that set to Gen=1 when mining or not?
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