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Re: How does pool mining and mining work under the hood?
by
primer10
on 27/04/2014, 16:56:39 UTC
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How about within the miner program running on machine with multiple mining devices (ASIC, GPU, etc), does the work gets divided down? I would suppose so right?

Yes. Most pools use an extraNonce2 size of 4 bytes which gives each miner 2^32 different block headers that can be created from a single workload. The mining program can than split all this work up to all the different devices connected to it.

Thanks GoldenWings91!

I was posting this related scenario on other forum:

1 remote wallet connected by 1 machine with 2 GPUs doing solo mining

vs

1 remote wallet connected by 2 machines with 1 GPU each doing solo ming.

So the first case I would have higher chance of finding block compared to the 2nd case since wallet does not function like a pool where work is dished out ... based on your reply, looks like I am right?