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Title: Testnet mining with bitcoin-qt? Post by: Andreas Schildbach on March 30, 2012, 06:44:56 PM I'd like to know the bitcoin-qt (0.5.3) is appropriate for mining on testnet (using plain processor) if 20 minutes without blocks have gone by?
(more info: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/686) Is it ok to run as follows? $ bitcoin-qt -testnet -gen I don't have any mining rig and do not want to configure specialized mining software, but sometimes need testnet to create blocks for development purposes. Title: Re: Testnet mining with bitcoin-qt? Post by: rjk on March 30, 2012, 09:50:07 PM I'd like to know the bitcoin-qt (0.5.3) is appropriate for mining on testnet (using plain processor) if 20 minutes without blocks have gone by? I'm pretty sure the CPU mining code has been removed from the recent versions. Just download Ufasoft cpu miner for testing, and also note that 0.6.0 has been released into production.(more info: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/686) Is it ok to run as follows? $ bitcoin-qt -testnet -gen I don't have any mining rig and do not want to configure specialized mining software, but sometimes need testnet to create blocks for development purposes. Title: Re: Testnet mining with bitcoin-qt? Post by: Matoking on March 31, 2012, 11:51:06 AM I'd like to know the bitcoin-qt (0.5.3) is appropriate for mining on testnet (using plain processor) if 20 minutes without blocks have gone by? You could also check out test-net-in-a-box :(more info: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/686) Is it ok to run as follows? $ bitcoin-qt -testnet -gen I don't have any mining rig and do not want to configure specialized mining software, but sometimes need testnet to create blocks for development purposes. http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/testnet-in-a-box/ It has a difficulty of 1 and comes with free testnet coins out of the box Title: Re: Testnet mining with bitcoin-qt? Post by: crazy_rabbit on December 30, 2013, 04:06:18 PM I've restarted mining on Testnet with Bitcoin-qt and while the hash power of the network is around 80 Ghash, very few of my mined blocks get confirmed. So far none- and the vast majority get orphaned. I'm wondering if someone is just sitting around trying to mine them all perhaps? :-)
Title: Re: Testnet mining with bitcoin-qt? Post by: Walter Rothbard on January 02, 2014, 12:27:56 AM I've restarted mining on Testnet with Bitcoin-qt and while the hash power of the network is around 80 Ghash, very few of my mined blocks get confirmed. So far none- and the vast majority get orphaned. I'm wondering if someone is just sitting around trying to mine them all perhaps? :-) I never had this problem when I was mining testnet, but it's been awhile. It's not me! :) |