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I am working on an altcoin based on bitcoin-core, version 0.12.1 (this version including setgenerate).
Is their an option for a miner to know (using bitcoin-cli) how many blocks mined by him (after setgenerate was set to true), had been accepted by the network and had been inserted to the blockchain?
You wait for a sufficient number of new blocks to be mined on top of your block and see if the chain includes your block. For bitcoin, this is 6 blocks. If you see a chain with a different block at the height you submitted, your block was dropped. – Raghav Sood – 2018-06-19T05:30:18.803
OK, but is their a way to get the number of blocks which meets that definition by a command (or a set of commands) ? somethonk like
getblockcount, but counted only for a specific miner. – Yosi Karl – 2018-06-19T05:39:05.077No, you will have to maintain an index separately. Additionally, it may not always be possible to tell is multiple blocks were mined by the same miner – Raghav Sood – 2018-06-19T05:47:18.927
Can you elaborate about how to maintain this index? thanks – Yosi Karl – 2018-06-19T06:39:06.910
@RaghavSood For bitcoin, it's 100 blocks, I believe.
– MCCCS – 2018-06-20T06:14:38.333