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Board CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware
Re: GUI mining - now with Phoenix/phatk and ufasoft
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becoin
on 15/06/2011, 21:27:37 UTC
What is shown there is a "difficulty 1 hash" being reported, which is analogous to a share being reported in a pool.
Exactly. Which means 'difficulty 1 hash 1' is analogous to 'shares 1 hash 1'... And this is precisely what we see on 'Summary' tab - Accepted 1 (1). There is no point in accepting 'Difficulty 1 (1), of course.

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Just as a small fraction of shares are valid solutions to a block, a small fraction of these hashes are valid solutions to a block.
I don't get this at all.

There is only one valid solution to a block, not many. Whatever small they are, shares are always part of a valid solution to a block. Otherwise, they wouldn't be shares at all, because they would be shares of zero!

This explanation is rather unconvincing, Kiv. Sorry.