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+## This repo is not maintained. Pull requests that are critical or of high quality and well tested are accepted - but not much more.
+### Looking for maintainers. Please open an issue if interested. 
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 High performance Stratum poolserver in Node.js. One instance of this software can startup and manage multiple coin
 pools, each with their own daemon and stratum port :)