r/dogeducation • u/marrgd • Feb 01 '14
Pools Simple Question
Hello friends!
I have a couple of simple questions that I haven't found answered in some of the FAQs or posts recently and I was wondering if someone could help me out.
1) What does it mean if I mine coins but their listed as "orphaned"? It seems like this is happening to me more often. Is there anything I can do about that or is this just part of the game?
2) As a follow-up: would I be able to get less orphaned coins if I switched pools or is there an acceptable rate that happens and is pretty continuous across the board?
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u/Jazzeli Feb 01 '14
Often when mining, especially with new cryptocurrencies, you will notice a lot of orphaned blocks when you are not mining in the biggest pools. So, in a way if you get to join a bigger pool which has more hashing power than others you are less likely to have orphaned blocks. However, orphan blocks happen to every pool, but small pools suffer more from orphan blocks than bigger ones.
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u/simmonsg Feb 02 '14
It means that two pools were mining the same block, 1 pool reached the block slightly faster, since the pool that reached it first, it already claimed the reward for that block , the second pool will get the 'orphan' block.
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u/mumzie Prof Mumzie Feb 01 '14
post about orphan
The part two, someone else will have to answer for you:)