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Re: [ANN] Woodcoin [LOG] Pure Skein POW, Logarithmic Release, No Premine nor ICO
by
bathrobehero
on 09/03/2018, 22:44:08 UTC

As much as I love Woodcoin for a very long time, the main problem I have with it is that people can't solomine it with traditional miners (method not found). And being such a small coin that it is, solomining I think should be essential.

You see, many coins sort of blindly updated their wallets to the newest Bitcoin wallet codebase which removed getwork that was required for solomining and was replaced with getworktemplate - which is STILL not supported by virtually any ccminer fork. It makes sense to remove solomining in the default Bitcoin wallet, but many many altcoins followed suit without acknowledging the consequences and without releasing a compatible miner that's capable of solomining with getworktemplate and coinbase, ignoring that decentralization should be paramount. Then again, I don't mean to be too harsh on Woodcoin, there are way bigger offenders to this idea, but still, this should be fixed in one way or another. I'm curious how AMD miners are doing with modern wallets.

The good news is that you can still use version v1.0.0.0-unk-geo and solomine as if nothing happened because the newest version (v0.13.2.0-e0c070a) is fortunately not mandatory.