Miner API¶
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class
web3.miner.Miner¶
The web3.miner object exposes methods to interact with the RPC APIs under
the miner_ namespace.
Methods¶
The following methods are available on the web3.miner namespace.
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Miner.makeDAG(number)¶ - Delegates to
miner_makeDagRPC Method
Generate the DAG for the given block number.
>>> web3.miner.makeDag(10000)
- Delegates to
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Miner.setExtra(extra)¶ - Delegates to
miner_setExtraRPC Method
Set the 32 byte value
extraas the extra data that will be included when this node mines a block.>>> web3.miner.setExtra('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEF')
- Delegates to
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Miner.setGasPrice(gas_price)¶ - Delegates to
miner_setGasPriceRPC Method
Sets the minimum accepted gas price that this node will accept when mining transactions. Any transactions with a gas price below this value will be ignored.
>>> web3.miner.setGasPrice(19999999999)
- Delegates to
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Miner.start(num_threads)¶ - Delegates to
miner_startRPC Method
Start the CPU mining process using the given number of threads.
>>> web3.miner.start(2)
- Delegates to
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Miner.stop()¶ - Delegates to
miner_stopRPC Method
Stop the CPU mining operation
>>> web3.miner.stop()
- Delegates to
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Miner.startAutoDAG()¶ - Delegates to
miner_startAutoDagRPC Method
Enable automatic DAG generation.
>>> web3.miner.startAutoDAG()
- Delegates to
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Miner.stopAutoDAG()¶ - Delegates to
miner_stopAutoDagRPC Method
Disable automatic DAG generation.
>>> web3.miner.stopAutoDAG()
- Delegates to