Mining Help

[satosamoto]

BtCguild is show that I'm outputting 215 while my guiminer says my hash rate is 289
Deepbit shows my hash rate correctly should I change to deepbit or another pool??

[satosamoto]

Have to wait till I get out of newb sec?

[pantehicon]

Your miner knows what your actual hashrate is, but the pool is only guessing based on correctly submitted blocks; They're going to be inaccurate, and the lower your hashrate the worse this estimation is.

I would suggest trying other pools just so you can get a feel for what's out there though. Keep in mind most of them have minimum withdrawal amounts that might be up to a few days solid mining, and some (such as slush's pool) have penalties for starting mining and then stopping again.

[MrBilling]

Glad I read that here.  I haven't saw anywhere else about them penalizing you for starting / stopping.

I probably missed it somewhere.

[Oldie]

Like most anything else, reading all the terms mad conditions is a good thing.

[pantehicon]

It's to stop a specific type of pool-hopping attack. If you look closer it says that the share payout method described is a simplification, with a link to slush's post about why, and how.

It's really annoying because I actually use my computer for playing games, but I don't know of any other pools that aren't deepbit (I don't want to contribute to the 51% problem) or don't seem dodgy.

Probably a bit late to start even a private pool if I don't have any ASICs