Questions tagged [slush]

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How to select minimum difficulty when mining with Slush Pool

I am mining on a single Antminer S9 with Slush Pool. There is a setting called "minimum difficulty": When I read their manual, item #8 states The pool automatically assigns difficulty that corresponds to the hash rate of your miner. My scoring…
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Cannot connect to slushpool with bfgminer

I am a complete newbie and just want to see how mining works in principle. No profit required. I have created an account on slushpool and have username and password. Then I go to my Ubuntu machine (a desktop, with GPU, no ASICs or something) and…
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GUIMiner does not connect on Slush's pool

I checked my firewall, and I tried the solution in Bitcoin question GUIMiner won't start mining on Slush's pool. It is still saying connecting forever.
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Graph Interpretation on Slush Pool

I understand that a dar red line on Slush pool hash rate means a block has been discovered by the pool. What does the blue line mean around 5AM?
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Why is slush pool showing my worker as off?

I've recently started mining with slush pool, I've also tried antpool yet on both mining pools it shows that the worker is off. I am very experienced with computers and have already setup port forwarding. I realize this is a duplicate question but I…
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GUIminer, unnable to connect to pool

I'm getting a connection error, or just a "connecting..." message that doesn't stop. though the connection on my end seems to be fine. This is a printout of my console. If there is already a fix for this, would someone please direct me to it? This…
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I deleted my bitoin wallet many years ago near the start

I know which pool I was a member of and maybe i should ask them instead? I'm trying to find out how or if i can recover them I had 3 Bitcoins way back at the begining back when gpu mining was a thing. I have tried to recovering the files but no…
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In slush pool, what does a yay!!! mean when using cpuminer

I am new to bit coins. I an now running slush pool. What does a yay!!! mean? Is the number of yays a good thing? I had more servers, I get more yay!!!! The lib I am using: cpuminer http://www.return1.at/bitcoin-miner-ubuntu/ ./minerd…
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