Playbooks · Intermediate · 6 min

Latency and Share Difficulty

Stale shares usually come from distance or from the wrong port, not from the algorithm.

Steps

  1. Prefer the endpoint with the lower round trip. Zcash jobs move on a 75-second block cadence, but shares are much more frequent.
  2. Stay on port 3330 unless a rental platform requires the fixed port.
  3. After a change, leave the miner alone for a day and read reject % on the address page.
  4. Keep the last known-good URL written down: stratum+tcp://zec.mysolopool.com:3330, password x.

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