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Title: Joined a mining pool, but none of my work earns shares?? Post by: grant2 on June 15, 2011, 05:27:20 PM Hi! I've installed a few mining clients and joined a few pools, but can't seem to earn any shares.
I've tried on: - BTC Guild - Bitcoinpool and i've used these miners: phoenix guiminer poclbm-mod ... According to Bitcoinpool i've had 84 "requested shares" but only managed to make 1 "submitted" share When I run poclbm-mod ... i see the "getwork"s process from 0% -> 100%, but once it's finished my "EMP" (empty) tally increases and I move onto the next one. I know I'm connecting to the server correctly because I did get my *1* submitted share. But when everyone is getting 30%+ efficiency it's clear mine is too low! (p.s. i have an AMD 4670 that processes about 33mhash/s) Title: Re: Joined a mining pool, but none of my work earns shares?? Post by: torusJKL on June 15, 2011, 05:33:31 PM I'm sorry but your CPU is just to slow.
These days you need a fast GPU in order to participate successfully in pools. They generate 10x more hash/s then your CPU. Title: Re: Joined a mining pool, but none of my work earns shares?? Post by: grant2 on June 15, 2011, 07:25:02 PM Can you explain what my CPU has to do with it?
My CPU is barely used while i'm mining. Title: Re: Joined a mining pool, but none of my work earns shares?? Post by: gangstarasp on June 21, 2011, 01:38:14 AM you need to specifiy to the program to use open cl for your GPU.
Title: Re: Joined a mining pool, but none of my work earns shares?? Post by: grant2 on June 22, 2011, 02:58:41 AM I installed OpenCL and my miners were indeed set to use my GPU device.
Title: Re: Joined a mining pool, but none of my work earns shares?? Post by: Precog on June 22, 2011, 03:03:25 AM Did any of your miners show you that a share got rejected or not, and whether the pool had long polling enabled.
I'm not familiar with bitcoinpool. Title: Re: Joined a mining pool, but none of my work earns shares?? Post by: thinkweis on June 22, 2011, 04:30:35 AM What operating system are you using?
Title: Re: Joined a mining pool, but none of my work earns shares?? Post by: dood001 on June 22, 2011, 04:36:09 AM I have an nvidia 8800gt and i get 31 mh/s and i get 0.03 per day! I know, very slow, but i just want to mine the coin at the moment and be part of this!
Title: Re: Joined a mining pool, but none of my work earns shares?? Post by: N4rk0 on June 22, 2011, 04:43:19 AM I think that it's because your speed doesn't allow you to find a share (proof of work ) before the server gives you the subsequent work.
As i could understand shares are just hashes of the same type of those that are used to sign new blocks but with an higher target (so lower difficulty). Still there is some difficulty to find a share and if you are not fast enough you won't find any share before the server send you the new work. This can become a problem if you can't find any share before the new round starts. The efficiency you have read about it's referred to good shares/bad shares ratio, infact also when you find a share , sometimes the server can reject it for some reasons. Title: Re: Joined a mining pool, but none of my work earns shares?? Post by: Teej on June 22, 2011, 04:51:37 AM Only way you're going to get much in the way of shares at ~ 30 Mhash is by joining a small pool.
That's an average of about 1 share every ~ 2.5 minutes. No matter what you do, 30 Mhash is going to get you about 0.05 BTC per day. Title: Re: Joined a mining pool, but none of my work earns shares?? Post by: N4rk0 on June 22, 2011, 06:31:06 AM Here you can find how much time in average it will take for you to generate a share
http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/old_calculator.php The common difficulty for shares is 1 , so put '1' in the difficulty field and 30000 in the speed field then hit calculate. |