Topic: [4+ EH] Slush Pool (slushpool.com); Overt AsicBoost; World First Mining Pool - page 436. (Read 4382714 times)

Not complaining... it's a slightly odd one, as, unlike the stats page, Mine Minder shows a payment value for this block (but zero for total shares), so something has been calculated and put in the download.  As you say, it will be fixed.

By 'soon' I mean the next 10-24h 

BUMP  BUMP


No it's still stuck  

Your shares are valued by your set difficulty value, regardless of their actual difficulty. This is the principle of variable difficulty. (In the times before variable difficulty implementation, all shares had been valued 1, as those had to be hashes of difficulty at least one.)
So each of your hashes that happen to be of difficulty greater or equal to your set level (currently 64 as you say) is submitted to the pool and you are credited exactly 64 (diff 1) shares for it.

Cgminer has dropped support for GPU mining from version 8.

Just before someone starts complaining ... round 21519 is stuck in 'Processing ...' - I have submitted a ticket, so it will be fixed some time soon.

P.S. I bet there will be at least 4 complaints even after this post

Since Slush doesn't support NMC anymore, if you don't have enough for a payout, you might as well just right it off as a loss.

Slush Is there a way to get my NMC paid out to my old wallet? NALFUse84Fakcz9XBGUg5jGog5A1u5hx9A

Thanks. That makes sense. I need to learn more about pool mining. 

It's not uncommon for large pools (even slush has done it before) to have multiple bitcoind servers and pool servers.  It is actually possible, due to the inefficiencies of p2p transmission, for a pool to orphan its own block.  By default bitcoind ignores other blocks that come in if they already have a block at that height, so if one of GHash.io's servers saw slush's blocks before another Ghash.io block, it will build on Slush's block unless they have modified bitcoind to prioritize their own blocks in the event of a race.

So we got super lucky on 281626. We found it at the same time as GHash.IO, but theirs got orphaned. The weird thing is, the next block, 281627, was found by GHash.IO. So why did they not used their own 281626 instead of ours?

HeHeHeHe. Sush don't need to let that out. Been there, doing that.

Hobby here to. Started with an ATI video card which lead to my first USB RedFury. Then 2…3….4..., I now have 15 running along with a few BFL units for a total of about 156 Gh/s. No different than most hobbies. Start small to see if you like and then the sky becomes the limit ( figuratively ). If you start getting stressed by results, and that is what motivates you to spend more money, then the fun starts to go away. Plug it in, turn it on, and then come back and see what happens! Personally for me I have learned A LOT about the terminal, UNIX, git, and so on. It's really been fun. Good Luck to ALL!

For some of us this will always be a hobby. I started with 10 Mh/s in May, now i'm at 300 Gh/s.

Ccynthia, you are cracking me up.... A/s/l??   Haha... JK.

I thought I had my miner set up properly as it seems to work most of the time.

The big question is how do I know whether or not I am making anything on slush's pool.

I actually get about 32gsh.... I am sure there are tweaks and other stuff I can do to improve speed, but when I get out of my comfort zone, things stop working...

I have invested in cloudhashing.com and cex.io... And am trying to buy more coins to put more into cex.io. I paid $2 for some gsh and 2 hours later already made 1/8 of 1 penny.


I will check into my miner setup. It works most of the time, but that could definitely be the issue.

Thank you......

gts250 ouch!  you might be lucky to get 70MH/s.  I sure hope you have free electricity.
about the authorization failed error message it may be that you have not set up your worker properly. from the site it says
Worker login will be . that is the USER

Good for you! Hope you enjoy your time mining BTC. You have the right attitude as a beginner thinking of this as a hobby. Some on this site are truly into BTC mining for the money but they have been at it awhile and know what they are doing.

For us beginners this has to only be a hobby and for fun. We can't afford the hardware to make a true go at it this late in the game, but it's fun anyway. And if you can make something while doing it heck jump up and down and clap your hands and just be happy.

I started testing BTC mining with an old old GeForce GS 8400 then got a nice graphics card for playing WOW which showed me that playing with BTC mining might be fun. My problem was in choosing a Navidia GeForce card thinking it would be ok for BTC mining instead of an AMD based card but I got around it and still have a great time on WOW too. Fun all around.

Oh, I'm the one that's probably driving everyone crazy with my weird posts, LOL, but life is to short, have some fun while mining and don't ever be afraid to ask a question here even if you get flamed, who cares, that's what the site is for. Some will take time to help you.

Good luck mining and enjoy Slush's pool if you are using it. Oh dang Lynch King is causing problems again and needs his butt kicked on WOW. Cya

Yes, I am using the gts250... I know the video card does not do much, but it is all I got.

I jus ordered a block eruptor and should have it this week.

I am mostly trying to understand this process and take it from there. For now, this is definitely a hobby more than anything else.

Thanks for the help.

Thank you for taking time to help me understand so should I just set my diff to default of 32 for my hashrate or keep at 64, it really does seem to run quieter at 64 but might just be me.

What the difficulty does is cut down on the bandwidth used. if your diffculty is 1 then every share gets registered on the pool. if the difficulty is say 8, the number of shares actually is less, but you are credited 8 shares for each share returned. The down side is that if it is a really short block you may not get any shares credited. this is why difficulty is raised for for higher hash rates. they should balance out.