Hey everyone, just joined the world of bitcoin/altcoins and mining and got my new block erupter cube all setup.

As i've been reading up on all of this i've heard several times that ASIC miners can only mine SHA-256 currencies, however during my setup with multipool and and my stratum proxy i've observed exactly the opposite, i can't seem to connect and mine any SHA-256 currencies but seem to connect up to the scrypt pools just fine. More or less a curious observation as this whole project is mostly to understand the system and setup/economy and trading.

so far i've noticed i seem to max out at ~85% efficiency but i'm not sure what that might be due too. would changing my worker difficulty make my miner more efficient? would using different proxy server software or mining different pools increase this?

below is a screenshot of the running setup

BE Cube V9.17 ASIC GT (Proxy, Auto Longpoll support)

ASIC_01-16: O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O
ASIC_17-32: O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O
ASIC_33-48: O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O
ASIC_49-64: O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O
ASIC_65-80: O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O
ASIC_81-96: O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O
M_01-16: 349 344 331 329 333 320 320 354 305 321 309 320 328 333 313 323
M_17-32: 346 320 320 301 309 306 314 327 320 329 308 309 327 317 330 304
M_33-48: 327 326 312 332 315 313 319 293 325 309 282 299 305 311 314 306
M_49-64: 310 304 308 294 330 298 316 291 293 309 283 316 310 314 312 297
M_65-80: 313 313 288 332 295 295 297 308 302 316 312 304 299 306 293 320
M_81-96: 280 300 307 286 295 294 295 278 296 315 314 283 276 298 307 276
Jobs:0000182558 Accepted:0000155754 Rejected:0000009760 (3:1) F1 F2 F3
MHS:29831 Utility:408 Efficieny:085.31%
Started before: 0d,06h,22m,06s
Current pool: 192.168.1.132 (A)
Switch mode: Primary/Backup
Clock selected: High
Long Poll: active, LP requests: 358

lol i sure hope so, that would be embarrassing. But the cube's status page shows work going through so i'm pretty sure. The connection seems pretty inconsistent at the moment, lots of drop outs currently. i disabled idle sleep for my laptop running the proxy so i'm going to have to keep an eye on it.

BE Cube V9.17 ASIC GT (Proxy, Auto Longpoll support)

ASIC_01-16: O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O
ASIC_17-32: O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O
ASIC_33-48: O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O
ASIC_49-64: O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O
ASIC_65-80: O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O
ASIC_81-96: O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O
M_01-16: 320 301 296 341 300 302 304 303 297 309 310 291 309 290 307 294
M_17-32: 252 310 295 300 304 315 299 289 318 324 289 308 313 328 295 283
M_33-48: 272 267 301 260 307 304 303 317 310 294 301 300 307 274 264 279
M_49-64: 287 302 291 307 302 273 320 307 280 256 282 276 296 296 269 316
M_65-80: 283 304 300 268 283 270 247 287 297 277 282 274 278 254 267 302
M_81-96: 304 280 304 263 279 282 280 293 273 253 261 306 269 230 309 264
Jobs:0000087901 Accepted:0000075526 Rejected:0000004585 (3:0) F1 F2 F3
MHS:27988 Utility:382 Efficieny:085.92%
Started before: 0d,03h,17m,29s
Current pool: 192.168.1.132 (A)
Switch mode: Primary/Backup
Clock selected: High
Long Poll: active, LP requests: 176

I've been wanting to try to run the unit directly connected to the pool server but i guess the outdated "getwork" protocol is pretty inefficient and my attempts so far haven't yielded any results anyways.

I may try other mining programs running as proxy servers to see if it boosts efficiency and or other pools but for now i think i'm just going to gather some longer term data and see how it does.

Hey Everyone, just joined the bitcoin and mining community and wanted to introduce myself

I've been interested in bitcoin for a while and decided to finally take the plunge on a miner in order to learn the system and economy and maybe even make a little profit in the process.

I settled on a ASICminer block erupter cube from amazon for ~$400 that claims 30-38Ghs. I picked up a 520W dynex power supply from best buy for ~$60 which seems to be powering it just fine at the moment and settled on using the stratum miner proxy script off of the bitcoincz site to connect to multipool.

So far i'm just happy to have gotten it setup and running but hope to improve my efficiency over time as it's currently only showing ~85% and welcome any suggestions anyone may have. I've heard that as this unit is a ASIC system it should only be able to mine for SHA-256 related coins but my experience has been exactly the opposite, when attempting to connect to the SHA server i was unable to connect, however i can easily connect to the SCRYPT servers on the site for whatever reason.

below are some of the current readouts

stratum+tcp://us-west2.multipool.us:7777
Jobs:0000020170 Accepted:0000017335 Rejected:0000000801 (3:0) F1 F2 F3
MHS:30532 Utility:417 Efficieny:085.94%
Started before: 0d,00h,41m,33s
Current pool: 192.168.1.132 (A)
Switch mode: Primary/Backup
Clock selected: High
Long Poll: active, LP requests: 38