thodg/cgminer

diff --git a/README b/README
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--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -721,9 +721,7 @@ A: Stratum is a protocol designed for pooled mining in such a way as to
 minimise the amount of network communications, yet scale to hardware of any
 speed. With versions of cgminer 2.8.0+, if a pool has stratum support, cgminer
 will automatically detect it and switch to the support as advertised if it can.
-Stratum uses direct TCP connections to the pool and thus it will NOT currently
-work through a http proxy but will work via a socks proxy if you need to use
-one. If you input the stratum port directly into your configuration, or use the
+If you input the stratum port directly into your configuration, or use the
 special prefix "stratum+tcp://" instead of "http://", cgminer will ONLY try to
 use stratum protocol mining. The advantages of stratum to the miner are no
 delays in getting more work for the miner, less rejects across block changes,