user6888: I'm curious about traditional bitcoin mining, before pooling.  Did an older version of the bitcoin wallet found on sourceforge have a mining feature built in which worked on a simple macbook?  if so was this later removed in favor of pooling software?
From what I've read the traditional bitcoin wallet had a mining feature which could be used on a macbook, and I'm wondering if that code would still be possible to use, even if it never wins any bitcoin.. 

user8717: The official Bitcoin full node software always had the mining feature built in, and will probably always have. If you have the line gen=1 in your .conf file, then you will start confirming transactions when you open the wallet. Take a look at https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin

6888: <p>I'm curious about traditional bitcoin mining, before pooling.  Did an older version of the bitcoin wallet found on sourceforge have a mining feature built in which worked on a simple macbook?  if so was this later removed in favor of pooling software?</p>

<p>From what I've read the traditional bitcoin wallet had a mining feature which could be used on a macbook, and I'm wondering if that code would still be possible to use, even if it never wins any bitcoin.. </p>
 8717: <p>The official Bitcoin full node software always had the mining feature built in, and will probably always have. If you have the line <code>gen=1</code> in your .conf file, then you will start confirming transactions when you open the wallet. Take a look at <a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin" rel="nofollow">https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin</a></p>
