What Protocol is used in miner and Pool communication?

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I've been reading something about this, and I read about stratum, GBT, getwork. I wanna ask if what protocol are they using (HTTP?, TCP?). I am +1 to beginner so what I am asking now might be wrong please do correct me

user77989

Posted 2018-03-02T01:14:20.480

Reputation: 11

Answers

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Most use the stratum protocol which sends JSON data over a TCP socket. Some pools also support the getblocktemplate protocol which works over the JSON-RPC (i.e. it uses HTTP requests).

Andrew Chow

Posted 2018-03-02T01:14:20.480

Reputation: 40 910