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author | Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com> | 2013-08-19 13:16:23 -0700 |
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committer | bitcoindev <bitcoindev@gnusha.org> | 2013-08-19 20:16:31 +0000 |
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Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposal: remove "getwork" RPC from bitcoind
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