Talk:Mining pool

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Potential semantics confusion edit

An everyday user will not understand the underlining pool mechanism. For example, a cluster of individual threads (POW) mining to a single address is not a pool because there is no central distributor and the threads are competing against each other. But, to the everyday user that will look like pool mining.

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