| AP mode | Soft-AP captive portal that NMMiner falls back to when it cannot reach the WiFi. |
| CYD | "Cheap Yellow Display" — a family of low-cost ESP32 + TFT boards. |
| DGB / DigiByte | A SHA-256d altcoin. NMMiner supports DGB out of the box — same firmware, different pool. |
| Hashrate | Hashes per second. Reported in KH/s on NMMiner. |
| Job | A unit of work delivered by the pool (mining.notify). |
| Ladder | The opt-in global top-10 difficulty leaderboard, published at ladder.nmminer.com and mirrored on the device screen. See Ladder. |
| Licence | Per-device activation string tying a board to a firmware image. |
| NM Monitor | The browser-based UI served from every miner on port 80. |
| Nonce | The 32-bit field a miner iterates over while searching for a share. |
| Pool diff | Minimum share difficulty the pool accepts. |
| Probe | The lightweight /probe endpoint used for LAN identification. |
| Share | A hash that meets the pool diff but not the network diff. |
| SoloBTC | NMMiner s own public-pool fork: solobtc.nmminer.com. The default pool on every shipped device. |
| Stratum | The pool protocol NMMiner speaks. v1 only. |
| Swarm | The Swarm menu in NM Monitor — LAN-wide miner aggregation, zero-install. Up to 255 devices per /24 subnet. |