Quote from: happy_merchant on August 20, 2017, 09:26:55 PM

Quote from: inblue on August 20, 2017, 08:45:01 PM

Quote from: 616westwarmoth on August 20, 2017, 08:34:25 PM

If you run the QT on another computer, you must export your wallet to that computer so the pool knows who you are

It doesn't matter which wallet is on the mining computers if they are pool mining. Identification is only done through the workerid afaik.

Technically true, but in the off chance that the pool goes down and your miner reverts to solo mining, it'd probably be safer to have them all on the same wallet.

Ok, but that's not what 616 was talking about at all. I was simply referring to the parts in their quote I bolded here. That simply isn't true and I thought it would be beneficial to clear things up so that people don't get misinformed.

Also, I don't think it's bad to have different wallets on multiple pool mining computers. I actually consider that much safer, because I think a greater chance could be someone stealing your funds from a computer you're not physically supervising all the time (cloud vps, friend's computer etc.), especially if the wallet is not encrypted. But for your scenario, first the small chance to revert to solo mining needs to happen, then probably even a smaller chance to solo find a block nowadays, then to not notice that you're not pool mining anymore (not see that you are not in the leaderboard, not check the mininginfo), and to never check the balance of the wallet.

Quote from: 616westwarmoth on August 20, 2017, 09:54:34 PM

Maybe I'm incorrect but unless you make a different user log in and associate it with a different wallet, how would the mining software know that my laptop01 is not your laptop01?

You can have multiple workers under the same user name on the pool if you have the same wallet, but I don't see how else it would be possible as the config file has no reference to your wallet id.

Workerids are unique, you can't register my registered workerid to your pool account. But you can mine for someone else's worker, which I think may be a huge problem now when the threads are limited, because someone could just kick out of the pool anyone not anonymous by simply mining with a few more threads on their workerid and cause them to go over the limit which will have them revert to solo mining.

This is why I just changed to anonymous and changed my workerids. Grin