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: 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: 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: 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: Luck (Mining)
Mining luck measures how quickly you find a block compared to statistical expectations based on your hashrate and network difficulty.
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: 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 Protocol
The stratum protocol is a communication standard that lets mining hardware talk to pools or nodes efficiently, sending work and receiving shares.
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: getblocktemplate
A Bitcoin RPC command that lets mining software request block data from a node to construct and mine new blocks independently.