Glossary: Thermal Throttling
When mining hardware automatically reduces performance to prevent overheating and damage from excessive heat buildup.
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Glossary: Lottery Mining
A nickname for solo mining that compares it to playing the lottery — you have a tiny chance of winning big with each block attempt.
Glossary: Variance
Mining variance is the randomness in when you find blocks — you might get lucky and find one early, or go way longer than expected without winning.
Glossary: Solo Block
A solo block is a block you mined completely on your own without sharing the reward with a mining pool—the ultimate win in solo mining.
Glossary: Network Hashrate
Network hashrate is the total computing power of all miners working on a blockchain at any given time, measured in hashes per second.
Glossary: Stratum Protocol
The stratum protocol is a communication standard that lets mining hardware talk to pools or nodes efficiently, sending work and receiving shares.
Glossary: getblocktemplate
A Bitcoin RPC command that lets mining software request block data from a node to construct and mine new blocks independently.
Glossary: P2Pool
P2Pool is decentralized pool mining that combines small miners’ hash power while keeping rewards distributed like solo mining.
Glossary: Mining Profitability
Mining profitability measures whether mining earns more money than it costs, factoring in electricity, hardware costs, and block rewards.
Glossary: ROI (Return on Investment)
ROI measures how much profit you make compared to what you spend on mining hardware and electricity—crucial for evaluating solo mining setups.