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January 28, 2014, 09:12:29 PM |
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I will take a few quick shots at your questions.
First. There are literally thousands of people mining a coin like DOGE. Maybe tens of thousands. Only 1 person in that entire group will find a block, for every block that is released. This means some people would never find a block in their life. Huge miners might find a few blocks a day, but everything is based on luck, and results would be sporadic.
What pools are, are groups of people all mining together on the same team, and sharing the results. t essentially would be no different then you and a few friends all buying a rig, and solo mining with it, and saying you will split the earnings everytime someone lucks out and finds one.
Since your dealing with complete strangers, and everyone will be bringing a different amount of computing power to the game, they had to change the rules a bit. Instead of saying they would split the earnings equally to all members, they look at the amount of work each miner brings to the table. Kind of like if you bought 5 miners each worth $2000, and your friends each only have 1 - $500 miner. You might not like the fact you are putting in a lot more money and a lot more money into the power bills, and getting the same as your friends.
So they break the work into work shares. Every time someone in the pool finds a block, your pools software will take the block reward and divide it between the number of work shares you worked during finding the block. Bringing that back to your imaginary friend pool. If you mined for 6 hours before you found a block, with all your computers running at maximum, you might get 20 times the power X 6 hours or 120 shares of the money made. Your friends coming in with 1 times the power, and mining all 6 hours would deserve 6 equal shares of the money. If one of your friends had his 1 share machine on for 3 hours, then decided to play Battlefield 4 for the remaining 3 hours, he doesn't deserve the same share as the guys mining for 6 hours, so he would get 3 shares of the money.
That is the over simplified version of how pools work. There is a lot more going on to keep people from pool jumping ect. but I am not going to go into all that here, since your new to the game.
As for the problems you are having, what type of card are you mining with? AMD/NVidia? Are you attempting to mine with a Block eruptor? Are you CPU mining? Also when you signed up for the pool, did you remember to create a worker, and is that information entered in your batch file you made to start your miner? Or did you just copy and paste a script off the page, that stated :
setx GPU_MAX_ALLOC_PERCENT 100 cgminer.exe --scrypt -o netcodepool.org:3333 -u user.name -p password --thread-concurrency 16320 --gpu-engine 1055 --gpu-memclock 1500 --no-submit-stale --intensity 13 --worksize 256 -g 2
and you left the -u being user.name and the -p being password? You have to change those to whatever you set in your pool as your user.name and your password, or you will mine forever, and the pool won't know where to send your shares.
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