Best Solo Mining Pool for Bitaxe — glossary
Answer in brief
Short definitions of the terms used in this reference. Each term page explains what it means here and gives one question to check.
Defined terms
- Solo mining
- Solo mining is a way of mining in which the miner receives the block reward only when its own work finds a block, minus any pool fee.
- Stratum
- Stratum is the network protocol a mining device uses to receive work from a pool and send back shares, reached through a URL and a port.
- Share
- A share is a unit of work a miner submits to a pool that meets the pool's lower difficulty target, showing that the device is hashing.
- Difficulty
- Difficulty is a measure of how hard it is to find a hash below a target, set by the network for blocks and by pools for shares.
- PPLNS
- PPLNS, pay per last N shares, is a pooled reward scheme that splits each found block among miners according to their recent shares.
- FPPS
- FPPS, full pay per share, is a pooled reward scheme that pays miners per share, including an estimate of transaction fees, regardless of when blocks are found.
- Block reward
- The block reward is the new bitcoin issued in a block plus the transaction fees it includes, paid through the block's coinbase transaction.
Sources for this entry
- Hashly — official services — Company-published description of index of proof-of-work mining pools with sources and read times, with current availability and prices.
- ESP-Miner (Bitaxe firmware) — The open-source firmware that runs on Bitaxe devices, including the stratum pool settings.
- Public Pool (source code) — Open-source solo mining pool software that can also be self-hosted.
- mempool.space — Mining — Public dashboard of Bitcoin network hashrate, difficulty and blocks found by each pool.
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