Switch to IPC communication with bitcoind for mining #4
Description
Motivation
Bitcoin is adding an IPC (InterProcess Communication) over a unix socket mechanism to get block templates and manage mining. See also bitcoin#30509. A mining example is here.
I like this solution better than using ZMQ or the StratumV2 API because it makes outsourcing of block templates more difficult. We want to have a Braidpool node running on the same host as bitcoind, which IPC requires.
Possible solution
Adapt the bitcoin-mine test program for CPUNet, replacing the ZMQ-based mining script .
Useful Skills
- Compiling Bitcoin Core from source
- Experience with IPC
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