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Alternate cryptocurrencies => Mining (Altcoins) => Topic started by: Landagert on November 03, 2017, 09:40:07 AM



Title: How mining worker works. Help
Post by: Landagert on November 03, 2017, 09:40:07 AM
Just started trying to mine some Altcoin. Have many question.
The case are: using "pooler-cpuminer-2.5.0", and i'm pooling instead of solo,

1. What do you do after you execute the mining program?

2. Does it tell you that a block has been finished?

3. What if lets say you started the mining 3 minute then you exit. is that bad? what does it do? do you still get your share?

4. You get your share after the block is finished or at a specific time?

Thanks in advance. All answer and comment is appreciated


Title: Re: How mining worker works. Help
Post by: os2sam on November 03, 2017, 11:10:09 AM
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=401897.msg4353159#msg4353159


Title: Re: How mining worker works. Help
Post by: leonix007 on November 03, 2017, 03:39:43 PM
Just started trying to mine some Altcoin. Have many question.
The case are: using "pooler-cpuminer-2.5.0", and i'm pooling instead of solo,

1. What do you do after you execute the mining program?

monitor its efficiency, hashrates, temps, errors etc.

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2. Does it tell you that a block has been finished?

you're using mining pools, it would will tell you if pools hit a block.


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3. What if lets say you started the mining 3 minute then you exit. is that bad? what does it do? do you still get your share?

as long you mined and received shares, it is already recorded at the pool.

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4. You get your share after the block is finished or at a specific time?

depending on the pool, reward is divided into miners according to their shares, with specific minimum amt of payouts, and with pool fees