<p>Miners no longer run full nodes. They connect to a mining pool that gives them work to do. The pool runs a full node.</p>

<p>If you mine solo you'll need to run a full node but solo mining doesn't make any sense anymore because of variance. You can get a more regular income flow if you join a mining pool.</p>

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Abdussamad
<p>Is a miner just running a full node that is connected with the mining hardware? Or is there such thing as a miner node? Does it use additional software for transaction selection?</p>

<p>Thanks in advance! </p>

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Is a miner running a full node?
Nick
# Is a miner running a full node?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-06-13)

Is a miner just running a full node that is connected with the mining hardware? Or is there such thing as a miner node? Does it use additional software for transaction selection?

Thanks in advance!

**Tags:** miner-configuration, nodes, transaction-verification


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2018-06-13. Score: 2

Miners no longer run full nodes. They connect to a mining pool that gives them work to do. The pool runs a full node.

If you mine solo you'll need to run a full node but solo mining doesn't make any sense anymore because of variance. You can get a more regular income flow if you join a mining pool.


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