Additional Bitcoin-Qt capability to mine regtest blocks #28387

1. 
   miketwenty1 commented at 10:33 pm on September 1, 2023: contributor

   Please describe the feature you’d like to see added.

   Able to mine blocks through the Bitcoin-Qt while in Regtest mode.

   Is your feature related to a problem, if so please describe it.

   Feature addresses none ideal uX with Bitcoin-Qt and mining regtest blocks. Currently if you want to use the console of Bitcoin-Qt you would need to close this out and then use bitcoin-cli separately to mine blocks.

   When running Bitcoin-Qt in regtest mode it’s clear by seeing a blue Bitcoin logo instead of the orange one. However, there is no way to thoroughly test some capabilities without having the ability to mine blocks.

   Describe the solution you’d like

   Bitcoin-Qt is able to use generate or -generate flag similar to what bitcoin-cli can do.

   Currently if you run generate the response is:

   0has been replaced by the -generate cli option. Refer to -help for more information.
   1 (code -1)
   

   Describe any alternatives you’ve considered

   Having bitcoin-cli shipped with all binaries on bitcoincore.org.

   Please leave any additional context

   low priority

2. miketwenty1 added the label Feature on Sep 1, 2023
3. 
   sipa commented at 10:35 pm on September 1, 2023: member

   See my updated answer on stackexchange; you can just use getnewaddress + generatetoaddress from the RPC console.
4. 
   miketwenty1 commented at 10:47 pm on September 1, 2023: contributor

   this works like a charm:

   0# generates a new address
   1getnewaddress
   2bcrt1qw6s75nqguln9xzjk7y75thfjpc7ylkq8y5yvnr
   3
   4# generates 100 blocks and sends to address.
   5generatetoaddress 100 bcrt1qw6s75nqguln9xzjk7y75thfjpc7ylkq8y5yvnr
   

5. miketwenty1 closed this on Sep 1, 2023

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6. 
   hebasto commented at 12:02 pm on November 21, 2023: member

   Related:

   • https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gui/pull/692
7. bitcoin locked this on Nov 20, 2024

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