Long polling

From Bitcoin Wiki
Revision as of 10:46, 14 June 2013 by Bezzeb (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Long polling is a method used by some Bitcoin pools by which notifications are sent to all miners when a valid block has been generated and added to the blockchain. This serv...")
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Jump to navigation Jump to search
The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.

Long polling is a method used by some Bitcoin pools by which notifications are sent to all miners when a valid block has been generated and added to the blockchain. This serves the purpose of stopping work on the old block and beginning to work on a fresh block, thus reducing the production of stale shares.

Without long polling, if a miner was in the middle of an assigned workload when a new block was discovered by someone else, it would continue working on the old obsolete block solution until it was finished - thus wasting effort.

Retrieved from "https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Long_polling&oldid=38701"