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Hey there! Just started digging back into mining and wanted to only dip in a little. I heard Dogecoin was fine for CPU mining so I decided to start with that. I got my wallet and CPUminer working, but I have one issue: running the .bat will yield stratum restarts and then crashes. This is the current .bat I'm working with

C:
cd c:\CPUminer
C:\CPUminer\minerd.exe -o stratum+tcp://stratum.aikapool.com:7915 -u user.worker -p workerpassword

I got it to start 'accepting' something and it made it to 2/2 before crashing out, but sometimes it will do nothing but restarts. Anyone know a possible fix to get me up and running or should I look more towards browser coins?

Edit: Shut off my antivirus and it got to 5/5 accepted. Now its just doing 'stratum requested worker restart' and displaying my threads and whatnot before repeating. Normal behavior or is something still off?

From what I remember, Dogecoin is merge mined with Litecoin by scrypt ASIC devices for years now.
This means that with CPU mining you'll only burn electricity, earning nothing.

Edit, for clarity: probably the pool has adjusted/set a difficulty as high as necessary for ASICs and probably you'll get very few shares accepted. The restart messages may also be related to the difficulty way too high for CPU mining. Maybe at some point it'll adjust downwards to meet what your CPU can produce, but it'll still be pointless.

Yes the mining algo of Doge is scrypt-based, which means that the CPUs are pretty much useless. So, forget about Doge. But you can try some other coins that are ASIC resistant. Here is a nice thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2683343.0 to give you an idea what coins can be mined by using CPU only.

You can do a search for cpu mineable coins if you don't mind mining other coins. Alot of people mine privacy coins on cpu like monero and bytecoin, not sure what profitability is like based on power cost