| CPC H04L 9/3236 (2013.01) [H04L 9/50 (2022.05)] | 20 Claims |

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1. An integrated circuit device that provides a compute module for a cryptocurrency miner that includes a miner controller, the integrated circuit device comprising:
a stats store;
compute engines, each compute engine configured to process a job and report if processing its job generated a candidate hit; and
a compute engine manager configured to:
receive jobs from the miner controller of the cryptocurrency miner;
distribute the jobs to the compute engines:
validate candidate hits reported by the compute engines; and
update statistical information in the stats store based on validation of the candidate hits reported by the compute engines.
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