Quote from: gmaxwell on November 23, 2019, 10:31:38 PM

what did you read that made you think it wouldn't test the coinbase transaction?

I ran

Code:

bitcoin-cli getblocktemplate '{"rules": ["segwit"]}'

(after some tries, this was the only syntax that worked)

A bunch of transactions showed but I noticed that there was no coinbase transaction (there were fields at the end of the output that may be used to create the coinbase, but no formatted coinbase transaction)

I searched and found this

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42334832/has-the-bitcoin-getblocktemplate-response-json-changed-where-is-the-coinbasetxn

where it said

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bitcoin core doesn't provide a coinbasetxn in the block template; it's the pool software that does that. if you're coding mining software to connect directly to bitcoind without using a pool, you'll need to generate the coinbase transaction yourself.

So given that the "proposal" option doesn't interact with the pool software and that I want to test everything including the pool software's ability to properly create a codebase transaction, the proposal option didn't appear to do what I wanted.

I'm working toward setting up Testnet.