Cgminer rejected low difficulty share update#

Our pools use a share system in which your account balance will update oncea new block is found after you started mining. I’ve been mining for X hours, when will I get paid? This is anestimate according to your amount of shares submitted for the round(s). It is your estimated payout if a block is found at that time. Higher difficulties will result inlower bandwidth but higher variance (opposite for lower difficulties). It onlyaffects variance and bandwidth usage. One thing to remember is that difficulty doesn't affect earnings. What is the recommended difficulty for my miner?

When a block is found and the system pays out for that block, yourshares are paid based on the difficulty of each one. That share is then weighted for the difficultydone. No! Every single share submitted is recorded on our system with thedifficulty of that share. My share count has gone way up or down! Will I getpaidless/more? The mining server monitors the work you aresending to the pool and if it feels you are sending work too fast or tooslow it will “Retarget” your difficulty to best server your client at thattime. My difficulty jumps around, is this normal? Thisis also good for the pool as it reduces the amount of requests being doneto the pool, this allows the pool to scale. This reduces the times your client needs to get new work from theserver reducing load and reducing the time it takes to get more work. Simply put the pool monitors the power of your miningrig and adjusts the difficulty of work sent to it to optimize the workdone. Many users have inquired about what VARDIFF means. Using a method withhigh pool-variance does no harm to large pools. This is the variance caused by the pool being too small. In that caseturn off your miner and check your settings! You may also notice that your hashrate on the pool website is notincreasing while your invalid share count keeps climbing up. If you are seeing reject all the time, then something isn’t working right onyour end. It is very solid when it comes to avoidingrejects but they can still happen once in a while. Stratum, aprotocol used by a miner to request work from a server, is used for sharesubmission and getting new work. This can happen ifyou try to send an outdated share right after a block was found. Keep in mind: shares are not blocks! Shares are part of a block and willcount towards the block payout!Īt times, you will see shares being rejected by the pool. In the long run though, shorter roundwith less shares than required will make up for those taking very long. I will notgo into details why this is, but rest assured that share estimates forblocks can sometimes be exceeded. On the server side, each share is checked against the coin daemon (a serverside wallet with more features) if it is indeed a valid block solution.Every share computed has the potential to be a block solution. The moredifficult each share is to find by miners, the fewer total shares arerequired to eventually find a block. Depending on theserver side setting, each share can be a certain difficulty. Since it would take a really long timeon some coins, finding a block is broken down into shares. What that actually means: the network (not the pool) has todiscover 120 additional blocks on top of the one found by the pool toconfirm it.įinding blocks is not an easy task.

Usually coins have a confirmationset to 120. Theywill take some time to be confirmed by the entire network before you areallowed to transfer them out of the pool. Double check your mining software'sconfiguration.Ĭoins generated by a block will not be available to you right away. That will only happen when you have a misconfigured cgminer/bfgminer whereyour miner sends problematic shares. My worker is being banned by your stratum servers!

If you’re connected and submitting shares, if you think yourhashrate seems low, and there do not seem to be any other obvious issueswith the pool/website, the problem is most likely your miner. The only hashrate that matters is your accepted hashrate from the shares yousubmit. The most common reason is thatyou are trying to mine scrypt but forgot to include the –scrypt flag inyour cgminer command line. There are also several otherreasons it could be showing up incorrectly. The pool displaysyour hashrate from submitted, valid shares. The pool has no idea what hashrate your miner is reporting, and that number,as far as the pool is concerned, is fairly meaningless. The pool isn’t showing my correct hashrate! I am having problems connecting to the poolĭouble check your settings against pool’s getting started guide. To get started mining, check our getting started guide.

Cgminer rejected low difficulty share update#