Quote from: kurutoga on Today at 03:19:59 PM

What is the best way to confirm that the miners are hooked up to the pool correctly with my correct BTC address? Is it as simple as the console saying "Connected to solo.ckpool.org diff 442 with stratum as user ***btc address***"?

Was curious if I could easily join a shared pool and how that works. Can I simply join a shared pool and they payout my share? Would love to see confirmation of payment to address from a pool whether it's solo or shared.

Really just trying to make sure it's working properly in the super rare case a block is mined.

Yes, that should suffice! You will also see some sats in your pool's dashboard coming in after a while..

You can only be paid out after reaching some threshold. This threshold differs between pools, but I don't think you can reach it with a single Compac F on most pools in the span of a few months.
One exception might be NiceHash; since they also offer payout via LN, you can withdraw at a much lower balance (around an order of magnitude lower than other pools, ~10x lower, if I remember right).
Additionally, if you just need 'a bit more' to push you over the withdrawal threshold, I believe you might be able to just deposit some BTC over LN or fire up your GPU for a few hours.