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mining pool

mining pool noun: the pooling of resources by cryptocurrency miners who share their processing power and split the reward.

Noun

mining pool (plural mining pools)

  1. The pooling of resources by cryptocurrency miners who share their processing power and split the reward.
    • The hashrate at major crypto mining pools – groups of miners in different locations that team up to produce bitcoin – including AntPool and F2Pool was on Thursday at 1215 GMT down around 14% from its level late on Tuesday, according to data from mining firm BTC.com.2022 January 6, “Kazakhstan internet shutdown deals blow to global bitcoin mining operation”, in The Guardian

Forms of mining pool

pluralmining pools

Questions about mining pool

What does mining pool mean?
Mining pool means the pooling of resources by cryptocurrency miners who share their processing power and split the reward.
What part of speech is mining pool?
Mining pool is a noun.
What is the plural of mining pool?
The plural of mining pool is mining pools.

Words near mining pool in the dictionary

  1. mining camps
  2. mining communities
  3. mining community
  4. mining engineering
  5. mining engineers
  6. mining pool
  7. mining pools
  8. mining town
  9. mining towns
  10. Mininger
  11. Miningers

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