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Re: [ANN] Bitcoin v0.3.23 release candidate available
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jgarzik
on 16/06/2011, 16:43:47 UTC
ditto. and, why was the 'generate coins' option removed? will you bring it back or is that only for elitists who can understand setting up scripts?

I somewhat agree. Theoretically a 10mhash CPU could generate 0.35 BTC over the next month if the difficulty stayed stagnant. It won't, but still that is a great way to distribute small amounts of currency to new interested users

Incorrect.  Besides being slower than other CPU miners, the built-in CPU miner has never supported pooled mining.  It only mines full blocks.  Thus, users either get zero BTC (highly likely) or 50 BTC (highly unlikely).

At current difficulty, you get a block once every 8 years, at 10 Mhash/sec.  http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/old_calculator.php