So I'm here trying to get answers to a straightforward question: why doesn't my wallet show an accepted hash that I (apparently) calculated?
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So do I have to have generated a block of 25 (50?) hashes to see something in the wallet? I think I might have read that somewhere or maybe it was from pooling or I dunno what. This is more of an experiment than anything else.... Everything else seems to be just fine, so I guess I must be missing this part.
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So do I have to have generated a block of 25 (50?) hashes to see something in the wallet? I think I might have read that somewhere or maybe it was from pooling or I dunno what. This is more of an experiment than anything else.... Everything else seems to be just fine, so I guess I must be missing this part.
Seems rather off-topic for this thread, but you seem to have misunderstood how mining works. If you are part of a "mining pool" (and I assume you are), you have registered on the pool's site (e.g. btcguild.com). The reward for finding a valid hash for the next block is currently 25 btc, but the odds of finding it alone are tiny. Mining in a pool allows you to get a share of the rewards proportional to the amount of work you put into it.
Accepted hashes in this context is the pool's way of finding out how much work you are doing. Depending on the pool, you currently get around 0.000003 btc (3*10E-6 btc) for each accepted hash (also known as a "share"). This amount is paid to you BY THE POOL, so you need to add a payout address (one you control, generated with your wallet) to you profile on the pool site.
Depending on the pool, you may or may not be able to get really tiny payments transferred to you, so you might have to let your miner run for a (perhaps long) while before getting anything out of it.
