# I'm confused about mining and pools and Nodes in general

**URL:** <https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/im-confused-about-mining-and-pools-and-nodes-in-general/6876>\
**Category:** Mining\
**Created:** [November 3, 2016, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/im-confused-about-mining-and-pools-and-nodes-in-general/6876 "2016-11-03T16:04:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![riada99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@riada99](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/riada99)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2016, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/im-confused-about-mining-and-pools-and-nodes-in-general/6876/1 "2016-11-03T16:04:51Z")

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Hey, I’m running the ZCash server on both my desktop and laptop, and actually joined the Flypool mining pool. I was wondering if it would be more efficient to run just the Flypool mining server thing or run both the ZCash server (that I setup from their startup guide) and the Flypool on top. Also, I set up a GUI wallet and so if I use a different computer and start the ZCash vanilla server would it send to the same t-addr or would I have to make new ones and transfer the ZEC between them?  
Thank you so much,  
A new crypto-miner