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Mining Pool
Infrastructure for combining miners, distributing computational work, and calculating payouts.
Pool Worker
A logical mining unit used by a pool to track computational work separately.
Share
An intermediate computational result used by a pool to measure a miner’s work.
Stratum V2
A newer generation of Stratum designed for more efficient and secure mining communication.
Stratum V1
The first widely adopted version of the Stratum protocol for pool mining.
Share Difficulty
The difficulty level used by a pool to regularly track a miner’s computational work.
Payout Threshold
The minimum accumulated balance required before a payout is processed.
Payout Scheme
Rules for calculating and distributing rewards among mining-pool participants.
PPLNS
A payout scheme based on a miner’s contribution within a defined window of recent shares.
VarDiff
A mechanism that dynamically adjusts share difficulty to a miner’s hashrate.
Stratum
A communication protocol used by miners to interact with mining-pool infrastructure.
Solo Pool
A pool mode where the reward for a found block is attributed to the participant that finds it.
FPPLNS
A PPLNS variant using a fixed calculation window or rule for credited shares.
Pay Per Share
A payout scheme where rewards are calculated for each accepted share.
Pool Fee
A fee deducted by the pool from a miner’s calculated reward.
Rejected Share
A share that the pool does not accept for further accounting.
Invalid Share
An incorrect share that the pool does not accept as completed work.
Stale Share
A share associated with a mining job that is no longer current.
Valid Share
A correct share accepted by the pool and credited as completed work.
Pool Mining
A collaborative mining model based on combining the computing resources of multiple participants.
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