What does Gen=1 mean?

[BitcoinBarrel]

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?

[evilscoop]

context ??

[BitcoinBarrel]

When setting up the bitcoin.conf file for mining.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin

[01BTC10]

I think it relate to when miners where using bitcoind for CPU mining. It's basically useless and inefficient now.

[os2sam]

Bitcoin generation was removed from the client over two years ago.

[ssateneth]

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.