Received: from sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.194] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-1.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1WtC0E-00046a-6l for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 07 Jun 2014 08:29:26 +0000 Received-SPF: pass (sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com: domain of gmail.com designates 209.85.213.173 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.213.173; envelope-from=laanwj@gmail.com; helo=mail-ig0-f173.google.com; Received: from mail-ig0-f173.google.com ([209.85.213.173]) by sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1WtC0D-0005j4-71 for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 07 Jun 2014 08:29:26 +0000 Received: by mail-ig0-f173.google.com with SMTP id hn18so1707864igb.12 for ; Sat, 07 Jun 2014 01:29:19 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.43.155.16 with SMTP id lg16mr12591198icc.65.1402129758864; Sat, 07 Jun 2014 01:29:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.60.195 with HTTP; Sat, 7 Jun 2014 01:29:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2014 10:29:18 +0200 Message-ID: From: Wladimir To: Jeff Garzik Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Spam-Score: -1.6 (-) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -1.5 SPF_CHECK_PASS SPF reports sender host as permitted sender for sender-domain 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (laanwj[at]gmail.com) -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's domain 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature X-Headers-End: 1WtC0D-0005j4-71 Cc: Bitcoin Dev Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin miner heads-up: "getwork" RPC going away X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 08:29:26 -0000 On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 3:55 AM, Jeff Garzik wrote: > As such, it is planned to remove "getwork" in the next release. Most > if not all pool servers have switched away from "getwork" years ago. To be clear, they switched to "getblocktemplate" and "submitblock" which provides a much more flexible and scalable way to do mining. This is explained in https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Getblocktemplate . Wladimir