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mining pools

mining pools is the plural of mining pool.

Meaning of mining pool

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

Questions about mining pools

What is mining pools the plural of?
Mining pools is the plural of mining pool.

Words near mining pools in the dictionary

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

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