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# What worker names are valid?

## Worker Name Example: subaccount.workername

- Replace "subaccount" with your actual pool sub-account name.
- Replace "workername" with your desired worker name.
- Sub-account and worker name should be separated by a period.
- Use only lower and upper case letters, numbers, dashes "-", and colons ":" as part of the worker names.
- Worker names are limited to 50 characters after the sub-account name.

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