So what are the 80 shares i got? Do i need to mine for a full cycle for this to be registered? When do i know when that cycles done so i can stop mining? Or does pool remember everything and pays you once you get to 0.01?
Also i got a gaming computer, Nvidia 770 with 4 gigs, 8 gigs ram, 3.4 ghz quad, is that considered a normal computer?
Thx for info
You do not have to mine for any set period of time. Most pools payout threshold is .01btc, so after you accumulate .01btc it will pay out to your wallet, whichever one you told slush to pay out to.
How shifts work (cycles)
I'm not sure about slush, but the pools I use average out your shares for the last 10 shifts. Shifts are a set amount of time by your pool (7 minutes on gnash.io, and over 1 hour on bitminter presently). Lets say you have 1% of the shares in each of the last 10 shifts, you will get 1% of the coins mined by your pool during that time. Once you stop you will have 9 shifts at 1% and 1 shift with 0%, so your average will be 0.9%. If you continue to not mine, the next shift will come and go and you will have 8 shifts at 1% and 2 with 0%, now your new average will be 0.8%, so the coins mined during the shift you will get .8% of them.
Thing is, you might mine for 10 straight shifts at 1% of the pool, and your pool not find a single block so nobody receives anything, you may then not mine for 10 straight shifts and they still not find a block, and now your shares are 0% over those 10 shifts, so you would have mined for nothing. They may even solve a block (get bitcoins) the minute after you reach 0%!
All pools average out over time how many coins they mine by their size, just the bigger pools are more consistent in solving blocks during the time you mine, although your payout will be more smaller ones. The smaller pools you would of course get a bigger % of the coins mined, but you may go a while before they solve a block.
Hope that helped some!