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Im mining bitcoins in Slush's pool and i have already 440 shares but my reward is not going up!

It's moving from 0.00000001 BTC to 0.00000030 BTC
Here is my setup:

GUIminer-   http://prntscr.com/5za218, http://prntscr.com/5za26f

Slush's pool-   http://prntscr.com/5za2dj

Thanks for your help :D

Your expected reward is the estimated reward. For it to turn into unconfirmed rewards, a block has to be mined by slush pool. For unconfirmed to become confirmed rewards, you have to wait till 100 blocks are solved ~ roughly 3/4 of a day. Your setup is going on fine, you can see the shares on the page and the hashrate there. However, GTX 660 is a very slow miner, if you want profit, go for a cheap ASIC. Even a USB block erupter beats it by a few times.

Ok thx,

But is it normal that it's more than 8 hours on estimated reward and it's so unstable?

Yes, the last block was found yesterday, 14 hours ago. It really all depends on the luck of the pool, the more blocks they find the more often the rewards but the rewards would be lower and vice versa. I guess the unstability is due to your GPU and other miners submitting shares resulting in less payout per share. However, the GPU will also submit share, therefore the estimated rewards will go back to somewhere near the original amount.

you have to wait for everything to be confirmed before your shares are paid out.

Some pepole say i need to use CUDA worker for INVIDIA
Right now im useing OpenCL worker What shuld i use and how do i use CUDA

Thx for you help i really love you guys :D

As stated above you need to wait. With your set up there will be not so big earnings.

It`s good to be active in bitcointalk, just please think about Subject you will have next time, try to use something meaningful.

your hashrate is probably too low

difficulty is also extremely high, don't bother mining

I agree, if You want to mine, try to purchase a ASIC miner.

Dude, you're doing it wrong ;D

Just go to Altcoin section and a low diff / high priced X11, X13, X15 coin and then mine it.
After that, you'll sell those altcoins for bitcoin.

it's 1000 times more profitable than what you're doing now.

This is cudaminer (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=167229.0). It utilizes the cuda cores found in nvidia GPU more efficiently than OPENCL(optimized for AMD). The performance increase is significant but would still be slower than a ASIC. Unzip the file and read the readme.txt for the instructions on the usage.

it sounds like he only has a gtx 660 though. he won't make much of anything mining any coin with only a single card. i think the gpu mining days are over unfortunately.  :(

probabely you are wasting your time as you are not gonna get anything from this mining you need atleast ASIS miner to get start now you can even find one under 200$

Look into altcoins.  But sadly if not asic chances are you use more electricity then you will make.

Guys please i enjoy mineing stop saying i shuld stop,
Can you explain what is altcoins?
And im plannig to get many gpu from old cumputers
And im installing a miners on aother cumputers + im not paying electrisity
So...
ACIS is special for mineing isn't it?
Im not looking for something like this
Just wonna make some coin without buying anything
Looking for answer altcoin seem cool :D
 

i recomend try NXT, Ripple, DRK, LTC. ;D
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Altcoin

Altcoins are cryptocoins created after Bitcoin. They are using some different methods of calculations which is not compatible to Bitcoin. Bitcoin uses SHA-256, most of Altcoins use so cold Scrypt methods.
You can keep mining for fun and to learn something new.
ASIC (not ACIS) are special purpose miners just for Bitcoin and SHA-256 based cryptocoins.

There are ASIC miners available for scrypt and some other algorithms too. ASIC also exist in products other than crypto miners, ASIC miners have ASIC chips specifically designed for some algorithm. You are going to make very low and insignificant amount of coins with a GPU but you are free to decide what you want.

Ok now i get what is alt coin but why is it so better than bicoins?
And how do I mine it?
 ???

Altcoins are not so much better, they're all speculative pump and dump copycat coins to Bitcoin.

That said, with the amount of small hash power you're mining with, they're the only coins worth mining in your case.

In order to really acquire/accumulate Bitcoin, you're better off buying them off a exchange.

If you're sticking to mining still, mine those alt coins, pick which one is hot at the moment here http://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency then trade them for Bitcoin at an exchange like Crypstsy.

As chuckbuck said, it isn't much better. However, some alt coins are created to be GPU/ASIC resistant, allowing users to mine on their regular PC while still getting a good amount of coins. Also, there are alt coins who promote anonymity by building mixers into it, eg darkcoin. Or POS, proof of stake and allow users who have coins in their wallet to run it as node to verify transactions and earn coins. There are loads of miner available to mine it, depending on what algorithm is the coin based on.

it is not better than bitcoin, it can be easier to mine since the different methods and also the difficulty. the only thing about altcoins IMO is that you can gain profit from pumps and dumps which requires expertise ;)

Hot is pricey?
If it is now i should mine FastCoins
And how can it make such a difference
So im gonna try mining some FastCoins
:D

Can you give me a nice altcoin pool to mine in?

You can probably look it up here:

http://www.fastcointalk.org/

Here's a list of mining pools to choose from:

http://www.fastcointalk.org/index.php/topic,33.0.html

Do i have to get CGminer for altcoins  and how can i use CGminer fromGUIminer
:D

GUIminer is only capable of mining SHA256 altcoins. GUIMiner scrypt is capable of mining scrypt coins. It really depends on what algorithm are you mining on. If it's a pos mining system, you have to rely on the wallet client to mine but you need to have some coins first. Alt coins announcement threads usually gives you the list of miner that can be used to mine that altcoin.

mining
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=160.0
and pools
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=199.0

you can search in altcoin section for more info on which of them are good for mining and where to mine them

Oh now i get it,
Can you help me with working with other miners like CG and CUDA from GUIminer?
I will really like that
:D

Please read over here first:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=42.0

Then post if you get stuck in here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=40.0

Good Luck!