Glossary: Joules per Terahash (J/TH)
A measure of mining hardware energy efficiency showing how many joules of electricity are needed to compute one terahash of hashing power.
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Glossary: Power Supply Unit (PSU)
A PSU converts wall power into the specific voltages your mining hardware needs to run, delivering stable electricity to keep your operation hashing 24/7.
Glossary: Solo Mining
Mining cryptocurrency independently without joining a pool, keeping full block rewards but facing high variance and unpredictable payouts.
Glossary: Solo Pool
A mining pool that lets you solo mine while handling the technical setup, paying full block rewards minus a small fee if you find a block.
Glossary: Expected Time to Block
The average time it should take your mining hardware to find a block based on your hashrate versus the network’s total hashrate.
Glossary: Luck (Mining)
Mining luck measures how quickly you find a block compared to statistical expectations based on your hashrate and network difficulty.
Glossary: Share
A mining share is proof your hardware attempted to solve a block, used by pools to track work—but solo miners submit only valid blocks.
Glossary: Stratum V2
An upgraded mining protocol that gives miners more control over transaction selection and improves efficiency and security over the original Stratum.
Glossary: CKPool
CKPool is a popular open-source mining pool software that runs public solo mining pools, letting you keep 100% of block rewards if you win.
Glossary: Halving
One-Sentence Definition A bitcoin halving is a programmed event that happens roughly every four years where the reward for mining a new block gets cut in half, reducing how many new bitcoins enter circulation. Why It Matters for Solo Mining When the halving happens, the block reward you’d win from finding a block drops by … Read more