Service allowing Monero miners to pool resources in order to reduce the variance between discovering blocks. Reward are generally divided largely based on the contributed hashrate of each member of the pool, with some small percentage often being collected by the pool operator as a fee.
Questions tagged [mining-pools]
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How decentralized is Monero mining?
How many Monero mining pools currently exist?
Are there any P2P pools?
What percentage of the hashrate does the largest pool control?
Is there a pie chart available that shows the the share of all major pools?
Is there a website that tracks real…
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Benefits to starting out mining at a higher difficulty
I have been trying to find out what the benefits are to starting out mining pools at higher difficulties. I imagine there must be some added benefit to it but I haven't found any real information on it. Can anyone shed some light on this or point…
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Can I mine with more than one client on a given mining pool?
Is there any particular configuration required to connect to a mining pool with more than one client using the same wallet?
Do I simply start the same command line on each machine?
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Resource to see mining distribution
I always check the health of a cryptocurrency by looking at its hash rate distribution.
Where can I see that information for Monero?
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Does mining use a lot of bandwidth?
If I setup a mining rig, will this use a lot of internet bandwidth? Do you know how many MB per day would be required? Is there a difference for mining pools and solo mining?
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What is a "Low Difficulty Share" error?
I am trying to mine on an old AMD Radeon HD 57xx GPU with Catalyst version 15.7.1 on a Windows10 x64 machine.
Claymore's CryptoNote GPU Miner v9.4 receives the following error from the…
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What does Shares/Diff number represent on pools found blocks
When the pool I am mining finds a block what does the "Shares/Diff" number represent?
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What is the block maturity value seen in many pool interfaces?
As you can see in this screenshot, a column called "Maturity" is shown on most mining pools' found blocks table. I did my best to find an answer to my own question with keywords such as "monero block maturity" or "cryptonote block maturity", but…
user652
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Writing my own Monero miner
So I was trying to make my own Monero miner and I found out that it uses the Cryptonight hash algorithm and I found documentation for it and I can implement it. But then how do I connect my miner to a pool, there doesn't seem to be any API on any of…
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What is actually happening when you pool mine? What is a share?
When I connect to a miner, I recieve a 'job', process that 'job', and send back 'shares'. Somehow this means that I earn Monero for my investment in GPUs and electricity.
What is actually happening here?
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How is the block hash encoded?
How to compute block difficulty from a hash of that block?
In Bitcoin, I can see that block hash starts with a lot of zeros, but in Monero I don't understand how uniqueness of new block in represented in the hash value.
I've read the specification…
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How exactly is a pool mining reward distributed
How is the reward distributed to the pool distributors when a new block has been found?
Two examples:
If my pc is connected to a pool 18 hours a day and I disconnect during
night, will I still get a reward since I provided accepted results
to the…
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Monero Height at a standstill
My Height seems to be stuck here 335459/335459 (100.0%) on mainnet
But when I check the current height online it's 1289240
Could someone help me?
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Miner publishes a block to the network with a lag
I just noticed that a pool has "retained" a new block for quite a long time. See snapshot below where the block was found 3 minutes ago but still not pushed to the network (my own node was not seeing it either).
Is it something that they are doing…
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Why does my pool say my hashrate is lower than what my computer reports locally?
My pool always seems to think I have a much lower hashrate than what I see locally. The only thing I can think of is that my pool moves onto the next block before my computer submits hashes, but my ping time is just 83 ms and my connection log shows…
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