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I am trying to generate some coins with the client ./bitcoin-qt -testnet -gen How can I config to what address the money go ?
p.s.: actually I got notification for mining success but no coins in the wallet.
Mining on the testnet: how to configure bitcoin-qt?
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It is possible that you found a block, but it got orphaned. Another miner may have found a block around the same time, and for whatever reason, the next miner to find a block chose to link to theirs instead of yours.
This happens a lot on testnet because of a special rule that if no block is found for 20 minutes, the difficulty drops temporarily to 1. When this happens, typically lots of people find blocks right away, and it's a toss up which one is used by the next miner.
You could inspect debug.log if you want to know exactly what happened.
Sounds reasonable – Roman Mandeleil – 2014-03-03T15:06:06.133
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The address is created in the wallet that is controlled by bitcoin-qt, so it will eventually pop up in your transactions, but the coins take time to mature. This is a security precaution to avoid transactions that spend coins from a block that will later be replaced. Using the Bitcoin JSON-RPC might show them already even if they have not matured yet:
./bitcoin-qt -testnet listunspent 0
should list all unspent transaction outputs with at least 0 confirmations, i.e., everything. One of them should be your reward. From the output you can deduce the generating transaction's Hash and from there you can simply use ./bitcoin-qt -testnet gettransaction <txid> to get details about the transaction.
./bitcoin-qt -testnet listunspent 0 - tried that one, on windows it just run the application no list printed... – Roman Mandeleil – 2013-11-03T10:01:14.740
It's actually bitcoind -testnet listunspent 0, once you have the bitcoind -testnet -daemon running. – gak – 2014-04-07T10:51:33.980
It takes 50 blocks for the wallet to have the coins. you should see the pending transaction – goodguys_activate – 2013-11-02T03:12:56.413