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Hi All

I am trying to get my head around the bestshare report on CGMiner. I understand the figure given is the best share accepted in that particular instance CGMiner has been running. What I want to know is, what is the target share? If you get over X do you solve the block? Is the Bestshare related to the Difficulty shown?

CGMiner shows:
Diff" 18.7t, my Best Share is 2.66m. I am solo mining with minimal power as a learning process, not expecting to gain anything!

Regards
Stav'

The bestshare you see on your Cgminer is the share that had the highest difficulty value since your miner came online, target and difficulty represent the same thing in a different manner, the lower the difficulty the higher the target and vice versa.

Think about a scenario where you are blindfolded, I give you a box that has 1000 small pieces of paper, each has a number on it starting from 0 to 1000, I will tell you that if you pick any number that is smaller than 900 you will win the prize, in this case, the challenge will be very easy and thus the difficulty is very low while the target is very high.

On the other hand, if I want to increase the difficulty so that you can't win easily, I will say the number you pick has to be less than 5, so lowering the target increases the difficulty as it's more difficult to pick only (5,4,3,2,1 or 0) as opposed to picking any number from 900 to zero.

So the lowest share has the highest difficulty, your best share is the lowest one which is also the most difficulty and the one that was the closest to solving a block.