How to set Bitcoin-Qt setgenerate mining recipient?

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I know it's inefficient and a bad idea and all that, but I just discovered the setgenerate console command in Bitcoin-Qt (v0.8.1-beta, MAC) and I was wondering how to set the recipient address of "all those" Bitcoins I'm about to generate?

pinhead

Posted 2013-04-12T00:30:40.997

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By default, Bitcoin-QT will generate new addresses to mine to. If you use the Encrypt Wallet feature, it appears to always mine to the same address instead, but it's still not user-selectable.

If you do want to CPU mine to a specific address (e.g. for testing on the RegTest mode), you can use mining software like cpuminer/minerd in "solo mining" mode to do so.

Eric W

Posted 2013-04-12T00:30:40.997

Reputation: 143

Actually, it grabs an address out of the keypool. If it doesn't find a solution, it returns the address to the keypool. – Nick ODell – 2015-02-11T02:25:38.967

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