Considering bitcoin target is 0x00000000FFFF0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
and pool target is 0x00000000FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
. Won't pool miner miss the valid block if it hashes to 0x00000000FFFF100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
? Basically this block is valid according to bitcoin target but not pool target. I'm reading https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty
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pdiff, the pool difficulty, is not just a different encoding of the same difficulty. Pools set a different (lower) difficulty so that miners can send them more blocks as shares, and calculate how much work they're doing. Valid blocks are still checked against the normal bdiff before submission to the network