[Pkg-bitcoin-devel] bfgminer package

[Martin Str|mberg]

Scott Howard said:
> would work better for their needs, like Dmitry said. For example,
> cgminer dropped all cpumining code but bfgminer still has it; bfgminer
> supports GBT (I don't think cgminer does); each has their own drivers

Well I recently compiled cgminer (I don't remember exactly which
version but I think it was 2.11.<something>) and it did support
cpumining. Not that you would use that unless you had free
electricity or too much money.

As for GBT, isn't stratum that is the way to go?


Luke-Jr said:
> the free Mesa/LLVM drivers (cgminer requires non-free fglrx).

cgminer doesn't require flgrx as I managed to compile it with/for
nvidia as well. But that is also non-free, of course.


Speaking of non-free, as cgminer (with GPU support) requires non-free
AMD or Nvidia drivers, does that make cgminer go into non-free or
contrib or what?


In another mail, Luke-Jr said:
> There are also many pools, including ones which are not detrimental to the
> Bitcoin network (as Ozcoin is), which recommend BFGMiner.

In what way is Ozcoin detrimental? I have it as a backup pool, so I
want to know why I should I remove it?


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MartinS