https://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Long_polling&feed=atom&action=historyLong polling - Revision history2024-03-29T02:31:15ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.30.0https://tests.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Long_polling&diff=38701&oldid=prevBezzeb: 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..."2013-06-14T10:46:07Z<p>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..."</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>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]].<br />
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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.</div>Bezzeb