Introduction
Terms and Definitions
Key terms used in HashCore Proxy documentation: shares, connections, protocols.
- Share: the result of a miner's work. It is a "proof of work" of a certain difficulty.
- Higher difficulty shares: shares with increased difficulty. One such share replaces dozens of regular ones, significantly reducing network load.
- Rejected share: a share rejected by the pool (invalid, corrupted, wrong difficulty, etc.).
- Stale share: an outdated share. Found by the miner, but by the time it reached the pool it was already irrelevant (due to latency). Generates no revenue.
- Latency: delay in data transmission.
- Packet loss: loss of data packets.
- Stratum protocol: the data exchange protocol between a miner and a pool.
- Downstream: connections from miners to the proxy.
- Upstream: connections from the proxy to pools.