Solo mining

Swedish translation: enskild utvinning

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English term or phrase:Solo mining
Swedish translation:enskild utvinning
Entered by: Edwin den Boer

18:20 Aug 22, 2018
English to Swedish translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Computers: Software / Cryptocurrency
English term or phrase: Solo mining
In an open-source software project I'm involved with, there's a heated debate between two Swedish volunteer translators about this term. In particular, I'd like to know: is 'solo' an unusual term in Swedish outside of music and sports? Would 'Enskild' be a better translation? Or 'Ensam'? After some discussion, we more or less agreed that 'utvinning' was a better translation for 'mining' that 'brytning', but I'd like to know your opinion anyway. I don't speak Swedish, but my advice as a professional translator was asked.

'Mining' means creating blocks containing new transactions. It's called that way because the miner receives newly created money as a reward. 'Solo mining' means computing hashes in order to mine cryptocurrency without joining a pool of miners. In this case, in the Monero desktop wallet, it's a symbolic activity, with a theoretical chance to win the lottery.

If you want to read the whole debate - but I promise you don't - you can find it here: https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui/pull/1494
Edwin den Boer
Netherlands
Local time: 15:42
enskild utvinning
Explanation:
As the Swedish term "solo" is often a part of a compound noun, it should theoretically lead to "soloutvinning" which however looks and sounds strange. As "solo" is also a person who lives alone, a single, the subject and object might be misunderstood and the term seen as "mining of a solo", whatever that might be (not "mining carried out by a solo"). Furthermore, "solo" is often used within sports and music, as you pointed out. Better is to use the adjective "enskild" which gives us the term "enskild utvinning".
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Erik Hansson
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That makes sense. Thank you, Erik!
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solo mining
enskild utvinning


Explanation:
As the Swedish term "solo" is often a part of a compound noun, it should theoretically lead to "soloutvinning" which however looks and sounds strange. As "solo" is also a person who lives alone, a single, the subject and object might be misunderstood and the term seen as "mining of a solo", whatever that might be (not "mining carried out by a solo"). Furthermore, "solo" is often used within sports and music, as you pointed out. Better is to use the adjective "enskild" which gives us the term "enskild utvinning".

Erik Hansson
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That makes sense. Thank you, Erik!

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agree  C. Heljestrand
5 hrs

agree  Pernilla Silverblood: solo refers more to a person's marital status, sports or stage performance. enskild is used for business, solo ownership, which feels more connected with the act of mining.
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