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What is a mining pool proxy?

A mining pool proxy is software that sits between a site's machines and the pool, so thousands of miners reach the pool through a few connections.

How it works

The machines point at the proxy on the local network. The proxy combines their Stratum traffic, forwards it to the pool and passes the work back down. It can also switch every machine to another pool at once.

Why it matters

It cuts bandwidth and connection counts at large sites, gives one place to monitor and redirect hashrate, and keeps machines hashing through a brief pool outage if a backup is configured.

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