Slow miner status 'not connected' but is it actually still doing something?

[ShanghaiTimes]

I've looked at two pool stats for the same miner. One shows Disconnected, and the other, Slushpool, shows the red ! mark.

However, the miner is trundling along doing stuff, with the occasionally accepted element. So although it's showing disconnected on the Pool dashboard, it it in fact still doing a tiny bit?

[1714071863]

1714071863

[NotFuzzyWarm]

You know, posting your query in the Official Slushpool thread might be a good idea considering that is where all of its users hang out...

[ShanghaiTimes]

You know, posting your query in the Official Slushpool thread might be a good idea considering that is where all of its users hang out...

Good idea, but it's not only Slushpool showing the Not Connected status. So I thought I'd just go general.

[NotFuzzyWarm]

Then the question becomes, what kind of miner and what is it's supposed hash rate? Is it a s9/T9, Avalon, eBit, etc? If a miner has too low of a hash rate most pools will reject it.

[fanatic26]

Maybe share some screenshots of the miner console? What you described isnt very helpful. you mention two pools then just about a red !

Need a bit more info to help you.

[kano]

Sounds like it's CPU, GPU or tiny USB mining.
They rarely find even a single share so they tend to show up as doing nothing on any pool except when they find a share.
Most pools are configured to find a share every few seconds on a standard miner, then scale that after you've actually got some shares.
So if you're tiny then it will probably take a long time to do that and may never scale down enough.
(Though most pools don't realise it, it's a risk to the pool to allow it to scale down that much)

If that is the case (CPU, GPU, small USB) then Bitcoin mining is pointless - you need a recent ASIC miner e.g. from Canaan.