What is the best approach to mining the first blocks after genesis in a forked alt-coin, based on Bitcoin Core 0.15.1, with SHA-256?
As far as I can tell, the built in miner and getwork has been removed since 0.13, so you can't really use the built in miner or the most popular desktop miners (cpuminer, ccminer, cgminer) to solo mine on local daemon.
So I reckon an option would be to set up a mining pool like UNOMP and mine using that, but it seems that UNOMP needs the chain to be synced, so if you fall behind more than 15 minutes (as said here:
https://github.com/UNOMP/unified-node-open-mining-portal/issues/83) then pool mining wouldn't work either.
This guy:
https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/56827/new-altcoin-cpuminer-gives-me-booo?rq=1 seems to have solved it with setting the genesis block time in the future, and then mining on from that, but it seems like a very hacky approach.
Anyone who has done this recently, or who knows of a way it could be done?
