What is different about Pluracoin that will make it stand out against it's numerous competitors in the current market?

What's going on with all the orphaned blocks?

When looking at the pool blocks page on a mining pool site, what does the shares/diff column mean?

You need to make sure yo're mining in a pool that is finding blocks, otherwise you won't get paid anything. Which pool are you mining in?

great, thanks

Thanks for the replies again, I've been switching between the official pools, hashparty and easyhash, keeping an eye to see who finds the blocks.

What does my machine do while there are no blocks, it still seems to be hashing something according to the miner outputs.

Also, can someone explain the difficulty when joining pools please, is it a good thing to join using the higher difficulty port, do you get more reward if you do?

Is there a guide somewhere to answer all these questions, would be useful for engineer type people like myself, who like to know how things work behind the scenes

Thanks for your replies.

I'm checking and switching between pools with recently discovered blocks

Also, do you get more reward for solving blocks in harder pools, I'm guessing so because otherwise there would be no point, but I'm new to mining so not sure how it works

I have a shortlist of around 10 pools to mine from depending on when blocks are discovered, but I'm not sure how to decide which one to join. Is it better to join a pool:

that has more miners connected
that has higher total hashrate

To me it makes sense to join a pool that has the lowest total hashrate, because then my hash rate would make up more of the total and so I'd solve more blocks... but is this the best way to decide, and if not, how to make the decision?

I have Micron memory. Seems I'm making an ok return on my card, based on my calcs from today's mining, i should be hitting somewhere around $150 p/m with my current settings


Gonna check those settings now, thanks for posting


I am only running one GTX, it's not a mining rig


Here's something interesting, my display performance was average at best while mining on my 1060, so I decided to put my old 7870 back in and use that for the display while the 1060 mines, then have them both mining when I'm not using the computer. Got it all set up with them both mining, and the ATI can mine and let me do basic display stuff at the same time.

Question for the more experienced miners... the gtx is pushing 500hz/s, and my 7870 442 with some overclocking, I know people have previously said that the Cryptonight algo is much better with ATI cards, but is the hashrate all that counts with mining, or are there other hardware aspects taken into account also?

Thanks, I'm just looking to pay off my spontaneous GTX1060 purchase, which, according to my overnight mining stats, should be around 6 months


THanks for the tip, the research continues... any idea what hashrate i can expect with my card on ethhash?

Thanks for the link, do you think it would be better to mine something else... Is there somewhere I can find out info on this?                                                                   

Just installed a gtx 1060 in my machine today, and installed cuda9 drivers, what hashrate can I expect to achieve with this. I've installed MSI after burner and have the following settings

Power Limit 80%
Temp Limit 60 degrees
core clock 2164 (+200)
Mem Clock 4404 (+600)
Fan Speed Auto.

It's running at 46 degrees, with the fan at 48%, and I'm getting 516h/s, but I am under the impression that I should be getting KHz/s, I set up the mining on an old HD 7870 and was getting 400Hz/s without overclocking, so this is only 25% faster.

Is anyone able to share their settings or offer any advice please

Thanks

I created a new wallet as it seemed like the only thing left to try, and it fixed my issue. Unfortunately the only way to test it is to set it up, start mining, and hope you receive payment

GreyDay - I edited my post above, but you replied while i was doing it. FYI

Fixed it... seems there was an issue with my original wallet. I created a new wallet, entered the address into both miners, and received my first payment.

Unfortunately there isn't a way to test it, you just have to set it up and hope. Luckily I've been testing on my old HD7870 while I wait for my new GPU to arrive, so I didn't lose too much

I'm checking it by running electroneumd and syncing my computer to the blockchain, then opening the wallet and checking my balance. You can see in the first screenshot my balance is zero, I have also checked incoming payments and there arent any. If you look at the second two screenshots in my post above, payment has been sent from 2 different pools

Fixed it... seems there was an issue with my original wallet. I created a new wallet, entered the address into both miners, and received my first payment.

Unfortunately there isn't a way to test it, you just have to set it up and hope. Luckily I've been testing on my old HD7870 while I wait for my new GPU to arrive, so I didn't lose too much

Thanks for the reply... I already fixed the issue in my original post. But as of yesterday I still wasn't getting paid. The screenshots below show the pool pages saying I have payout, but no etn in my wallet

https://www.dropbox.com/s/nuwizxkd9g3nzlt/Capture2.PNG
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2glasignqw4u30r/Capture3.PNG
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hi85qiu086p1e4p/Capture.PNG

I have created a new wallet and am awaiting my first payment to it, it's the only thing I can think to change, I've tried different pools and different miners

Any ideas why I'm getting the below error when trying to run the miner, I have my config file set up correctly from what I can see

10:03:19:253   2ecc   
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10:03:19:254   2ecc   º            Claymore CryptoNote GPU Miner  v9.7 Beta            º
10:03:19:255   2ecc   ÈÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍͼ
10:03:19:459   2ecc   Wrong wallet address etnkPEUxuHpDjoECEoVnVpNNpfUzEzLxHdaXuQ5JzAcadCYzWTASodaTPgz9ndv1EYZo3J26x39xP4P EZXWGznGK1NsEeFVpGq - XMR/QCN/BCN/FCN/Duck/Dash/OEC/MCN/ORION addresses are supported only. Use "-allcoins 1" option.
10:03:19:460   2ecc   Pool uspool.electroneum.com removed from the list
10:03:19:462   2ecc   No pools specified! Specify at least one pool in "epools.txt" file or in "-o" parameter.

I fixed that issue, I had the wallet address in two places when setting up the pool in Awesome miner. I removed it from the second location as per tutorial videos and the error disappeared, but I'm still not getting paid. Guess i could try a different pool, or a different miner anyway