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I am using a RPi3 as a stock bitcoin mining node. I am getting it all set up. I am not expecting to ever actually mine any coin. I am just doing it for fun and learning.

I know that if my node were to mine a block it would create a transaction for the bitcoins that it earns by doing so.

My question is where do I set that public wallet address to receive those coins? I am using a tutorial to set up the software and it doesn't say anything about setting that address.

I have also searched everywhere I can think of and can't find any information on it.

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Support for the built-in CPU miner was removed in Bitcoin Core v0.13 (see https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.13.0#removal-of-internal-miner), so this issue is moot.

Historically speaking, the built in miner asked the built-in wallet for an address. So it was not configurable - you just had to use the internal wallet RPC to manage the funds you got out of mining.

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I could not find any mentions in the docs but traced down in the source, it appears that when the Wallet is generated a dedicated Miner address is created and then the Miner main thread loads the wallet and uses that address for mining.

Note: the Mining functionality was removed in version 0.13.0.

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