What does the "hashes" field mean in an authentication message received from a pool?

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I'm still trying to get a handle on how all this pool mining stuff works so I decided to use this guy's project -- https://github.com/cryptonoter/CryptoNoter/ to give it a whirl. In particular I notice when I send a message (I believe this is when I'm authenticating into the pool) ...

{"type":"auth","params":{"site_key":{"IF_EXCLUSIVE_TAB":"ifExclusiveTab","FORCE_EXCLUSIVE_TAB":"forceExclusiveTab","FORCE_MULTI_TAB":"forceMultiTab","CONFIG":{"LIB_URL":"https://mylocal.devbox.com/lib/","WEBSOCKET_SHARDS":[["wss://mylocal.devbox.com/proxy"]]},"CRYPTONIGHT_WORKER_BLOB":"blob:https://mylocal.devbox.com/1fa1d80d-4650-4b78-a22d-c2a31933d956"},"type":"anonymous","user":null,"goal":0}}

I get a response that looks like

{"type":"authed","params":{"token":"","hashes":0}}

What does this mean? In particular, what is the "hashes" field?

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 31 '18 at 12:16

It's the number of valid shares that the miner has sent to the pool.

Relevant excerpt from the CryptoNoter source:

// (whenever the upstream pool accepts a share)

// increment the number of accepted shares
conn.accepted++;

// notify the miner via websockets
buf = {
    "type": "hash_accepted",
    "params": {
        "hashes": conn.accepted
    }
}
buf = JSON.stringify(buf);
conn.ws.send(buf);

What does the "hashes" field mean in an authentication message received from a pool?

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