Thanks for the tips, I now see using GPU-Z and MSI Afterburner that indeed my Graphics Card is heavily being used. I will also try Phoenix Miner and Claymore miner to see the results. To be honest I first tried to use Claymore but I got scared once my antivirus detected Claymore as a virus. Still not convinced on why would an antivirus rate a mining application as a virus if it isn't.

I know that most people mine using different pools and I'm not scared of the 1% fee but of how they do the math while redistributing the funds to each miner, after all, they own the place and can always say I've mined less than I have actually mined.

On the other hand, I'm not doing this for profit but I would still like to know if is it possible to do the mining using any of the existing tools without using a pool as I still didn't fully understand if I have low chances is solving the hash or no chances at all using a configuration such as mine against the "big players".

And, as a side effect of pool mining, this isn't as decentralized as it should if top 3-4 mining pools have 50% of the network because again, they own the place and could team up for a 51% attack anytime.

I have just started mining ETH for testing purposes and I'm using ethminer (btw, what is the best eth miner in terms of performance?) and while mining I have ~ 25 Mh but I see on my graphics card in Task Manager that it doesn't use it more than 3%. Is there a way to increase this in order to use like 75%?

I have an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti and an I7-9700K CPU

Is this still up? Why this silence? How can I join the slack channel? I see I need a foreground.io email address. Is that correct?