<p>I feel sorry for you that no one had replied, so i'm gonna join in and try to think together with you, cause i was wondering the same.</p>
<p>Out of pure guessing, i think that when you have a mining farm, you mine a block very fast.
When you are finished with the block, the server needs to affirm it and send you a new job, which makes a small delay. This delay can decrease the profits over time.
Now the next question is, why isn't everyone using the highest difficulty? I'm not so sure about this, but i believe it has something to do with having to finish a block before you log off or your software crashes. I don't know what happens to a block that gets half mined. I think the block has to be mined in a whole for it to be confirmed.
When you mine with low difficulty, the block is split in pieces so everyone has a part they can complete in a block.</p>
<p>Hope this helped. It's probably not the correct answer, but it sounds obvious.
This was my first post btw. lel hah, never sell, HODL!</p>

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2020-08-25T08:13:42.573Z
Marcus Kalvik
<p>In the documentation of mining pool I found following </p>

<p>Connect Details:</p>

<p>(Difficulty 5 - GPU)    stratum+tcp://stratum.btcprivate.org:3032</p>

<p>(Difficulty 10 - GPU Farm)  stratum+tcp://stratum.btcprivate.org:3036</p>

<p>(Difficulty 15 - Nicehash)  stratum+tcp://stratum.btcprivate.org:3096</p>

<p>I see that only differents between difficulty. I have a farm of 6 card which connection should I use and why? </p>

<p>Any ideas? Thanks!</p>

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Why mining pool has different connections ports for different difficulty
Thugmaster
# Why mining pool has different connections ports for different difficulty

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-03-07)

In the documentation of mining pool I found following

Connect Details:

(Difficulty 5 - GPU) stratum+tcp://stratum.btcprivate.org:3032

(Difficulty 10 - GPU Farm) stratum+tcp://stratum.btcprivate.org:3036

(Difficulty 15 - Nicehash) stratum+tcp://stratum.btcprivate.org:3096

I see that only differents between difficulty. I have a farm of 6 card which connection should I use and why?

Any ideas? Thanks!

**Tags:** bitcoin-core, mining-pools, miner-configuration, difficulty


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2020-08-25. Score: -1

I feel sorry for you that no one had replied, so i'm gonna join in and try to think together with you, cause i was wondering the same.

Out of pure guessing, i think that when you have a mining farm, you mine a block very fast.
When you are finished with the block, the server needs to affirm it and send you a new job, which makes a small delay. This delay can decrease the profits over time.
Now the next question is, why isn't everyone using the highest difficulty? I'm not so sure about this, but i believe it has something to do with having to finish a block before you log off or your software crashes. I don't know what happens to a block that gets half mined. I think the block has to be mined in a whole for it to be confirmed.
When you mine with low difficulty, the block is split in pieces so everyone has a part they can complete in a block.

Hope this helped. It's probably not the correct answer, but it sounds obvious.
This was my first post btw. lel hah, never sell, HODL!


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