Thank you, Steve. I noticed all but 3 of my chosen coins are "Currently disabled or in error" this morning so I figured some work must be going on behind the scenes.

Steve Sokolowski wrote: ↑Tue Jun 08, 2021 9:43 am This issue is likely related to the problem described at Mining server memory issues.

Thank you, Steve. Once the memory issues are fixed, will the payouts to non-desired coins cease?

I'm still receiving payouts in coins (i.e., OmiseGO and Bitcoin Cash) that I had chosen in the past but had set to zero in the Proportions part of Payout Settings. The payouts kept happening for several days, so I went so far as to forfeit the tiny amounts of those coins I somehow earned even with t...

You tried with the pass being after the : in userpass, like user:pass? Hmmm. Ah, you had it right. Somewhere in my messing with the bat file, I changed it from userpass to just pass (or to just user , I don't recall which). When I changed it back to userpass , it accepted the difficulty setting. Th...

romes wrote: ↑Wed May 19, 2021 5:08 pm Add d=1024 to your userpass..

So in your instance would be

--userpass=yourusername:d=1024

I gave that a whirl and it still uses 131,072 as the difficulty level. It's like it ignores everything except url= and userpass=.

I do appreciate your reply, though.

I'm new to mining and bought a Gridseed 5-Chip Orb GC3355 just to play around with, but I'm pretty sure I'm doing something wrong. I'm using CPUMiner on Windows 10. Is this even the best miner software? If not, what is? The bat looks like this: minerd.exe --freq=850 --gc3355-detect --url=stratum+tcp...