I have tested 50BTC, Elygius, triplemining and slush pool.
And I prefer the slush pool.

these are the reward I had today:

#   Block trouvé le   Durée   Total de shares   Your shares   Votre récompense en BTC   Block #   Block value   Validité
21504   2014-01-20 14:52:54   1:10:29   722420605   639577   0.02043937   281510   25.00000000    69 confirmations restantes
21503   2014-01-20 13:42:25   0:43:24   441532672   407567   0.02208816   281502   25.04159635    61 confirmations restantes
21502   2014-01-20 12:59:01   0:26:39   269418157   245482   0.02281950   281493   25.17348927    52 confirmations restantes
21501   2014-01-20 12:32:22   0:50:16   508773482   456849   0.02246066   281486   25.05608048    45 confirmations restantes
21500   2014-01-20 11:42:06   1:07:59   694091679   632950   0.02164892   281475   25.03950072    34 confirmations restantes
21499   2014-01-20 10:34:07   1:39:22   1050997430   897949   0.02155906   281469   25.01535575    28 confirmations restantes
21498   2014-01-20 08:54:45   0:45:16   481544421   420958   0.02120238   281458   25.00730392    17 confirmations restantes
21497   2014-01-20 08:09:29   4:28:56   2872076576   2295724   0.02037948   281451   25.04932497    10 confirmations restantes
21496   2014-01-20 03:40:33   0:34:43   375547127   233673   0.01486999   281420   25.12267578    confirmé
21495   2014-01-20 03:05:50   0:39:17   426345215   270117   0.01430962   281414   25.19367891    confirmé
21494   2014-01-20 02:26:33   8:34:03   5527931702   4616146   0.01310003   281411   25.08091000    confirmé

Hi sebmex, and welcome to the forum.

What device is shown on the worker tab?  The command parameters suggest that you are trying to mine with a CPU, which would mean you will earn virtually nothing, and nowhere near the cost of the extra electricity used.  (This would not explain the connection problem, though.)

How do you tell what you have done so far in the pool?



Also, it seemed that everything was fine yesterday and all of a sudden I am getting errors:

2014-01-20 15:10:32: Running command: poclbm.exe USER:PW@api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 --device=0 --platform=0 --verbose -r1
2014-01-20 15:10:32: Listener for "Default" started
2014-01-20 15:10:32: Listener for "Default": WARNING: ADL missing (no AMD platform?), temperature control is disabled
2014-01-20 15:10:32: Listener for "Default": 20/01/2014 15:10:32, started OpenCL miner on platform 0, device 0 (GeForce GTS 250)
2014-01-20 15:10:32: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 20/01/2014 15:10:32, checking for stratum...
2014-01-20 15:10:33: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 20/01/2014 15:10:33, diverted to stratum on stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333
2014-01-20 15:10:34: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 20/01/2014 15:10:34, Setting new difficulty: 3
2014-01-20 15:10:35: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 20/01/2014 15:10:35, authorization failed with USER:PW@stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333
2014-01-20 15:10:38: Listener for "Default": api2.bitcoin.cz:8332 20/01/2014 15:10:38, IO errors - 1, tolerance 2

What are those errors and how do I resolve them?

Thank you

True, maybe, BUT... The pattern I see is we have maintenance issues and then a period of horrible luck, and when we aren't solving blocks someone else is. Sometimes I think the pool 'appears' to be working fine, but behind the scenes perhaps it is not, either way we usually don't get much feedback on what is happening. I'd love to see a time-series plot of our daily blocks found overlaid with the maintenance issues or tickets submitted. My hypothesis is during times of high issues reported that our blocks solved dips significantly. From what I see it's always during and after periods with technical issues that we have horrible "luck", which really makes the 'luck' value something other than pure.

Just because the Quality Inn sign says "Quality" does not mean it is, labels don't tell the whole story and often over-simplify the truth.

I noticed Slush did use FB to celebrate the recent good luck, if we can get similar messages during maintenance and bad luck that would be ideal. I'm fine waiting it out during some technical issues, but would rather know if there is more behind the scenes influencing that 'luck' number. In fact, last week about 50% of the hashing power got booted. Something like that certainly does and did affect luck.

Not really.

"Luck" = Submitted shares per round network difficulty. This is not affected by a pool's hashrate.

I don't know, but if you provide some examples (number of diff1 equivalent shares you think you submitted, number of diff1 equivalent shares the pool thinks you submitted) I'll see.

Ok is this what you mean. I just had a 19.1k submitted along with 14 other 1 to 8k submissions. It showed 19.1k/64 and when block done still same no increase. I guess has to do with what you mentioned lvl 1 equivalent.

Thank you for taking time to help me understand so should I just set my diff to default of 32 for my hashrate or keep at 64, it really does seem to run quieter at 64 but might just be me.

Good for you! Hope you enjoy your time mining BTC. You have the right attitude as a beginner thinking of this as a hobby. Some on this site are truly into BTC mining for the money but they have been at it awhile and know what they are doing.

For us beginners this has to only be a hobby and for fun. We can't afford the hardware to make a true go at it this late in the game, but it's fun anyway. And if you can make something while doing it heck jump up and down and clap your hands and just be happy.

I started testing BTC mining with an old old GeForce GS 8400 then got a nice graphics card for playing WOW which showed me that playing with BTC mining might be fun. My problem was in choosing a Navidia GeForce card thinking it would be ok for BTC mining instead of an AMD based card but I got around it and still have a great time on WOW too. Fun all around.

Oh, I'm the one that's probably driving everyone crazy with my weird posts, LOL, but life is to short, have some fun while mining and don't ever be afraid to ask a question here even if you get flamed, who cares, that's what the site is for. Some will take time to help you.

Good luck mining and enjoy Slush's pool if you are using it. Oh dang Lynch King is causing problems again and needs his butt kicked on WOW. Cya