RPC block template

[sammy007]

So how to get block template? On medium you claim

ability to mine in existing pools, using existing mining software.

There is no rpc documentation, after quick code search I see that there is no even a trace of this functionality.

[jleni]

Mining pool integration is something that we are working on at the moment.
What you are refering to is the complete feature set. We will have the JSON-RPC interface for the mining pools soon.

I noticed that you've been also actively developing mining pools. Maybe we can cooperate and help you with the integration. Feel free to contact us or join our Discord channel.

[sammy007]

I am banned on qrl reddit, discord, slack... Just thought beta is beta, where feature set is already sealed. I have no plans in visible future to develop a pool for this algo, if you claim it will work with existing pools it will also work with my solo stratum which is available for free and will probably require only small changes. My policy is to charge exorbitant amount of money from ICO projects, never reached an agreement so far lol.

[sammy007]

We will have the JSON-RPC interface for the mining pools soon.

How soon is now? There is literally nothing for devs not familiar with this code to play with rpc. Is it too hard to provide a markdown docs with 3 API calls described?

[cyyber]

Here is the node-cryptonote-pool which has been modified to work with QRL codebase.
https://github.com/cyyber/node-cryptonote-pool/

Following is the customized QRL config.json file for cryptonote-pool (make sure to update pool address)
https://github.com/jleni/qrl_dpool/blob/master/config.json

[sammy007]

Offtopic, how to join testnet from master branch or maybe launch a private one?

[cyyber]

You need to wait for next hard fork. We have not yet hard forked network with latest codebase that supports pool mining. Although if you are interested, you can run your private network to establish the pool and setup all other stuffs related to pool mining.

[sammy007]

That's what I am asking for, any documentation?

[cyyber]

If you would like to start your private one, you need to override the configuration file.

https://github.com/theQRL/QRL/blob/master/README.md
This above link includes how to override config.json
Just override peer_ip list in config.json.

Use following command to start your testnet with much less pain.
qrl wallet_gen
cp wallet.qrl ~/.qrl/

[sammy007]

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data '{"id":0,"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"getblocktemplate","params":{"reserve_size":9,"wallet_address":"Q0106009aeec11a402bb2abfdc0f02dcefcfba8620395a686555e61cd31b37e7a07a4730fab798e"}' http://127.0.0.1:9009/json_rpc

Getting response: @@.

I see no http endpoint changes in your node pool fork, definitely missing something. or I am getting malformed reply due to some weird qrl node state?

[cyyber]

You need to run this grpcProxy.py
https://github.com/theQRL/QRL/blob/master/qrl/grpcProxy.py
This will support HTTP endpoint at port 18081

[sammy007]

Consider different port for RPC, it's a conflict with Monero, there is no reason to copy rpc port if you decided to use same algo. It's confusing and annoying, some pools will definitely run both on same server.

[cyyber]

We will make these ports configurable, nothing will be hardcoded, and sure, will look for other ports to avoid conflict.

[sammy007]

So this rpc service is not a part of default application? You can really make many lives easier if mining rpc will listen on 127.0.0.1:PORT by default without tons of configs. There are tons of coins and every need to add their own "special things".

[cyyber]

Yes for now the rpc service is not a part of default application. But will be added soon.