Mining, but not showing as an active worker?

[murderouskirk]

Hello all,

So I've started mining casinocoin over at xpool. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=217139.0)

Only problem is that while it seems like I'm mining I don't see myself under active miners.

I'm using the following line

minerd.exe -o stratum+tcp://csc.xpool.net:8840 -u CLEqizar7PHgm7QcXRqu1nSgwjA6Rf9nqG -p abcd -a sha256d -R 2 -t 4

Mostly making this post so I can wait my 4 hours and ask the pool owner about it, but any suggestions in the meantime would be appreciated.

Thanks 

[shorena]

Looks like they only pay you when a block is found, which may take some time depending on the pools overall speed. E.g. Triplemining ( https://www.triplemining.com/stats ) hasnt found a block in the last 428 hours.

[murderouskirk]

Shouldn't I show up as an active miner though? Blocks are being found pretty quickly too, like 4/hr it seems. http://csc.xpool.net:8810/static/lastblocks.html

Edit* Looks like the last block was like an hour ago, maybe I just haven't been mining long enough. Just seems weird that I don't show here http://csc.xpool.net:8810/static/stats.html

DoubleEdit* Was looking at wrong currency, casinocoin is finding blocks very frequently.

[MargaretsDream]

Only problem is that while it seems like I'm mining I don't see myself under active miners.

And do you finding and submitting shares ?

[murderouskirk]

Only problem is that while it seems like I'm mining I don't see myself under active miners.

And do you finding and submiting shares ?

Not sure, how can I tell?

[shorena]

Only problem is that while it seems like I'm mining I don't see myself under active miners.

And do you finding and submiting shares ?

Not sure, how can I tell?

the consolewindow should show lines starting with accepted:

like here:

[murderouskirk]

hmm doesn't seem like it. what does that mean, can i just not keep up? I'm only CPU mining on a laptop for the fun of it, is it just no use for me?

Edit* It's a p2pool if that helps.

[static74]

If it's any help, I've noticed that the mining pools will only report your hash rate based upon the time it took for your client to find a share. I spent a lot of time and frustration figuring this out until I found a random post talking about it.

Example, I have 8 miners running a pool on Quark but only a few of them show up at a time as doing work since not all of them find a share at the same time. The server side estimate of your hash rate has nothing to do with what you're getting paid, its all about what you find.

[murderouskirk]

If it's any help, I've noticed that the mining pools will only report your hash rate based upon the time it took for your client to find a share. I spent a lot of time and frustration figuring this out until I found a random post talking about it.

Example, I have 8 miners running a pool on Quark but only a few of them show up at a time as doing work since not all of them find a share at the same time. The server side estimate of your hash rate has nothing to do with what you're getting paid, its all about what you find.

Makes sense, so maybe I just need to wait and cross my fingers then. Is it possible to tell if it's even worth mining on my pc? I've been mining for over an hour with no shares.

[lambdaE]

hmm doesn't seem like it. what does that mean, can i just not keep up? I'm only CPU mining on a laptop for the fun of it, is it just no use for me?

Edit* It's a p2pool if that helps.

You mining Bitcoin, with 4MH/s it might take half hour to find share with difficulty 1. But if stratum has higher difficulty, then longer

[lambdaE]

Makes sense, so maybe I just need to wait and cross my fingers then. Is it possible to tell if it's even worth mining on my pc? I've been mining for over an hour with no shares.

You need good ATI GPU card and mine Scrypt coin

[murderouskirk]

I'm mining CasinoCoin, can I not do this with my CPU? Is there a better easy coin for me to be mining if I'm using CPU? I don't have a GPU yet.

[murderouskirk]

Found the issue. Had to remove -a sha256d. Thanks for the help.