I broke my pool account! I was stupid and set the Worker Management Minimum Diff to 156,000,000. Since I did that, the Pool shows my miner as offline for over two hours. So I set the Minimum Diff back to 0, and restarted my miner twice, waiting another hour but it still showed as offline for over three hours now.
So I created a new pool account and pointed my miner to the new account, and it shows as Active and online and is busy working and producing shares.
Is there a way I can fix my old pool account or somehow consolidate pool accounts so I don't lose the shares I worked on so far? Like perhaps use the same BTC payment address?
Any advice is appreciated, and I apologize if this has been asked and answered - I did search for a couple of hours but couldn't find anything.
Just use the new user. Your old user will ramp down as your new user ramps up, so there's no loss.
Thank you. Should I use the same BTC receiving address or does that not matter?
It won't matter so long as you don't mind utilizing two separate BTC Addresses and as long as you have access to both. If you are using coinbase for example then it won't matter if you use a different BTC address issued by them for your account.
You can't put an address on 2 different accounts.
As stated above, if you start a new account, the old one will ramp down while the new one ramps up
The total rewards of the 2 accounts will be the same as if there was only one account, however there may be dust at the start of the new ramp and at the end of the old ramp.
Lastly, your old account will reset it's share difficulty, if you change it on the web site, and probably has already.
You have to be patient for that to change when you change it on the web site while you are mining.