OK, got a few more newbie questions.
So, I finally got tired of my GPU mining and waiting for a payout, so I got one of those ASICMiner Block Erupters (Sapphire Miner). I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr.
First off, bfgminer, which I was using, didn't seem to work with the ASIC USB thing. It reported an error rate of 100% after several hours of mining.
So, I installed cgminer using this link:
http://blog.phrog.org/2013/07/06/simple-debian-cgminer-asicminer-block-erupter-usb-setup/cgminer works, but I don't seem to be getting any accepted shares. Also, in the command line, there didn't seem to be a --scrypt option, so I'm wondering if the rejected shares are b/c I didn't set the algo appropriately.
This is what my cgiminer screen looks like:
cgminer version 4.4.1 - Started: [2014-06-24 20:42:08]
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(5s):250.8M (1m):340.8M (5m):337.7M (15m):322.8M (avg):335.4Mh/s
A:0 R:512 HW:0 WU:4.2/m
Connected to us.clevermining.com diff 512 with stratum as user XXXX [I only give this out if you intend to send me tons of bitcoins]
Block: 8cc1feef... Diff:22 Started: [21:30:33] Best share: 1.03K
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SB management [P]ool management ettings [D]isplay options [Q]uit
0: AMU 0 : | 397.4M / 335.7Mh/s WU: 4.2/m
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[2014-06-24 21:30:15] Network diff set to 24
[2014-06-24 21:30:15] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[2014-06-24 21:30:20] Network diff set to 23
[2014-06-24 21:30:20] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[2014-06-24 21:30:22] Stratum from pool 0 requested work restart
[2014-06-24 21:30:25] Network diff set to 22
[2014-06-24 21:30:25] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[2014-06-24 21:30:28] Network diff set to 21
[2014-06-24 21:30:28] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[2014-06-24 21:30:33] Network diff set to 22
[2014-06-24 21:30:33] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
[2014-06-24 21:30:33] Network diff set to 22
[2014-06-24 21:30:33] Stratum from pool 0 detected new block
I've only had it running for about an hour, so I wanted to know if this is normal, and if I will eventually get any accepted blocks. Also, does setting the difficulty (like say to 8192) change the rate of accepted and rejected blocks?
Thanks again. The help is much appreciated.