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[Edit docs] add mock-miner documentation

Open friedger opened this issue 3 years ago • 4 comments

URL of the page to change: https://docs.stacks.co/docs/nodes-and-miners/stacks-node-configuration#configuration-file-options

The readme of the stacks-blockchain repo contains mock_miner: https://github.com/stacks-network/stacks-blockchain/blob/de541f9fc9bba0f2eccc647e729cfb5402476a38/README.md#mining

# Run as a mock-miner, to test mining without spending BTC.
# Mutually exclusive with `miner`.
#mock_miner = true

The documentation should answer

  • when to use mock mining (gather data about miners like app.onstacks.com
  • when to not use mock mining (as a real miner)
  • what the impact is when using mock miner (more storage)
  • whether it works or not when already running just a normal node, when connecting to the hiro bitcoin node, ..

friedger avatar Jun 29 '22 09:06 friedger

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

stale[bot] avatar Jan 07 '23 15:01 stale[bot]

This can also help for testing Stacks 2.1

friedger avatar Jan 08 '23 06:01 friedger

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

stale[bot] avatar Aug 12 '23 16:08 stale[bot]

It is still important to me

friedger avatar Aug 12 '23 18:08 friedger