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Title: What does Gen=1 mean? Post by: BitcoinBarrel on May 19, 2013, 01:50:00 AM 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? Title: Re: What does Gen=1 mean? Post by: evilscoop on May 19, 2013, 01:50:58 AM context ??
Title: Re: What does Gen=1 mean? Post by: BitcoinBarrel on May 19, 2013, 02:08:33 AM When setting up the bitcoin.conf file for mining.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin Title: Re: What does Gen=1 mean? Post by: 01BTC10 on May 19, 2013, 02:11:08 AM I think it relate to when miners where using bitcoind for CPU mining. It's basically useless and inefficient now.
Title: Re: What does Gen=1 mean? Post by: os2sam on May 19, 2013, 02:12:11 AM Bitcoin generation was removed from the client over two years ago.
Title: Re: What does Gen=1 mean? Post by: ssateneth on May 19, 2013, 08:30:10 AM 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.
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