Hello BTG-ers,
I'm running bitcoin gold Qt, version 0.15.0.1 on a Windows 10 unit, and when I do the 'generate xxx yyy' command, I see the usage go up, so I presume I'm mining! But I can't seem to get any RPC command after that to work? In the Qt version, the next command(s) are accepted and echoed in green, but there is no other output, when there should be. For example getblockcount, etc. I can't even do the 'stop' command. I have to kill the process in Windows task manager!
Also, I find the description and help on the generate command quite ambiguous. What does the first argument 'number of blocks to mine' actually mean? Is there an implied meaning of using the command 'generate 0' to stop the mining? And what does the 'number of tries' second argument mean, and how should it be used? Does it mean the miner code tries 'yyy' times (as above) and then returns, checking for a new block, stop mining, shutdown, etc.? Looking at the code in .../src/rpc/mining.cpp => UniValue generateBlocks(...) it is hard to figure out what maxtries does to the code when it reaches 0.
How should generateBlocks(...) actually work, and what is a good maxtries value for a 'normal' CPU?
Also, and this is a complaint the BTG shares with BCH (!!) can you guys please replace every occurrence of BTC with BTG especially in the help messages, menus, screens etc. It is really disconcerting when one is importing one's keys, etc. (LOL)
Ron