You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: Tutorial - How to install Steem Python on Windows 10/11
I use it mainly because I work with VSCode on Windows. I only found out later that I could also run it within the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Now I use it for the work with Steem and Steemit-Condenser.
I have always used linux VMs inside of Windows.
With WSL oder an extra VM (with Hyper-V or another Software)?
A mix of WSL and VirtualBox.
Ah, I also experimented with VirtualBox before I discovered WSL. :-)
If I remember right, WSL wasn't available yet when I first started with VirtualBox and Steem. I was using that for PoW mining back before they disabled that feature (and before the disk size for a node outgrew my computers).
I can imagine that. Microsoft was late in recognising the potential of integrating Linux.
I did notice this function in the documentation, but then didn't look into it more intensively because it was deactivated. Was it also possible to generate/produce STEEM or SP with it?
Yeah, it was possible. I brought in a few hundred SP that way. If I remember right, they had 19 slots for the primary witnesses, 1 slot for an alternate witness, and the 21st slot each round went to a proof of work miner.
Unfortunately, someone managed to hack the algorithm, and a single miner was dominating the PoW mining queue (@supercomputing and @supercomputing01-99 accounts, or something like that... see here). They tried to fix the algorithm a time or two, but kept having problems so they disabled it and went to 100% DPOS. No idea who the account owner was, but they brought in a nice rake...