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.
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: P2Pool
P2Pool is decentralized pool mining that combines small miners’ hash power while keeping rewards distributed like solo mining.