Hello all, I'm a super newby here that just figured out how to use my GTX 970 to mine Ethereum. I'm currently running (past 24 hours) Ethereum Wallet and Claymore 9.6. I have a series of questions I'd really like help with...
1- I have geth (not currently running) but I read somewhere that I don't need to use it... is that true?
2- The screenshot shows what I have going on - is it actually mining the pool? I tried looking up my miner but I get a response that my miner is either Inactive or I don't have eth_submithashrate. What do I do?
Have I just wasted 24 hours of time? Thank you for any help you can provide me!

I don't have my GPU OC'd at the moment
here's my bat file:
ethminer -G -F
http://ethereumpool.co/?miner=18@{miner wallet addr from Ethereum Wallet}@onyx