<p>That simply means you grabbed a new share from the pool.  In this case the share has a difficulty of 9, so it's essentially 9 shares at a difficulty of 1.</p>

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2014-01-13T06:11:44.977Z
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tbenz9
<p>I am new to bit coins.  I an now running slush pool.  What does a yay!!! mean?  Is the number of yays a good thing?  I had more servers, I get more yay!!!!</p>
<p>The lib I am using:   cpuminer</p>
<pre><code>http://www.return1.at/bitcoin-miner-ubuntu/
./minerd --url=http://api.bitcoin.cz:8332

  [2014-01-13 05:05:28] thread 0: 55109708 hashes, 1264 khash/s
   [2014-01-13 05:06:28] thread 0: 75821248 hashes, 1266 khash/s
   [2014-01-13 05:07:28] thread 0: 75957608 hashes, 1264 khash/s
   [2014-01-13 05:08:28] thread 0: 75848480 hashes, 1268 khash/s
   [2014-01-13 05:09:09] thread 0: 52297492 hashes, 1268 khash/s
   [2014-01-13 05:09:09] accepted: 9/9 (100.00%), 1268 khash/s (yay!!!)
   [2014-01-13 05:10:09] thread 0: 76107420 hashes, 1270 khash/s
   [2014-01-13 05:11:09] thread 0: 76221520 hashes, 1269 khash/s
   [2014-01-13 05:12:09] thread 0: 76115796 hashes, 1270 khash/s
   [2014-01-13 05:13:03] Stratum detected new block
</code></pre>
<p>What is the layman's explanation?</p>

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In slush pool, what does a yay!!! mean when using cpuminer
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# In slush pool, what does a yay!!! mean when using cpuminer

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-01-12)

I am new to bit coins. I an now running slush pool. What does a yay!!! mean? Is the number of yays a good thing? I had more servers, I get more yay!!!!

The lib I am using: cpuminer

```
http://www.return1.at/bitcoin-miner-ubuntu/
./minerd --url=http://api.bitcoin.cz:8332

  [2014-01-13 05:05:28] thread 0: 55109708 hashes, 1264 khash/s
   [2014-01-13 05:06:28] thread 0: 75821248 hashes, 1266 khash/s
   [2014-01-13 05:07:28] thread 0: 75957608 hashes, 1264 khash/s
   [2014-01-13 05:08:28] thread 0: 75848480 hashes, 1268 khash/s
   [2014-01-13 05:09:09] thread 0: 52297492 hashes, 1268 khash/s
   [2014-01-13 05:09:09] accepted: 9/9 (100.00%), 1268 khash/s (yay!!!)
   [2014-01-13 05:10:09] thread 0: 76107420 hashes, 1270 khash/s
   [2014-01-13 05:11:09] thread 0: 76221520 hashes, 1269 khash/s
   [2014-01-13 05:12:09] thread 0: 76115796 hashes, 1270 khash/s
   [2014-01-13 05:13:03] Stratum detected new block

```

What is the layman's explanation?

**Tags:** mining-pools, terminology, slush


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2014-01-13. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

That simply means you grabbed a new share from the pool. In this case the share has a difficulty of 9, so it's essentially 9 shares at a difficulty of 1.


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