<p>Dead On Arrival. The term is referring to about valid shares your miner discovers that were found too late to be included in the P2Pool internal block chain and therefor aren't paid to the miner. Counter intuitively a DOA share can still be a valid Bitcoin block.</p>

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Claris
<p>What does DOA stand for?</p>

<p>I've seen this in the context of <a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool" rel="nofollow">P2Pool</a> stales, specifically <a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool#Tips_to_configure_bfgminer_to_reduce_stale.2Fdoa:" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p>

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What does DOA stand for?
Geremia
# What does DOA stand for?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-04-07)

What does DOA stand for?

I've seen this in the context of [P2Pool](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool) stales, specifically [here](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/P2Pool#Tips_to_configure_bfgminer_to_reduce_stale.2Fdoa:).

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### Answer by username_1 on 2015-04-07. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

Dead On Arrival. The term is referring to about valid shares your miner discovers that were found too late to be included in the P2Pool internal block chain and therefor aren't paid to the miner. Counter intuitively a DOA share can still be a valid Bitcoin block.


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