To repeat myself, Steve and Chris, you need a different lawyer. The guy you hired is in left field on this one. We are just using your software with our own equipment and you pay us nothing, we pay you a fee but it isn't even dollars so you have to declare its "value" on your taxes.

Steve and Chris, you need a different lawyer. The guy you hired is in left field on this one. We are just using your software with our own equipment and you pay us nothing, we pay you a fee. Like a cloud service such as Amazon Web services. Amazon doesn't send out 1099 to subscribers.

I got disconnected and now pool shows as dead!

The reject rate has increased so much that I'm getting the same payout as if I was just mining litecoins.

Maybe your username is too long try something shorter, like lane2017.

Are you using

stratum+tcp://prohashing.com:3333

instead of just prohashing.com:3333?

Isn't the pool url just prohashing.com:3333 without the stratum part? That is what I use.

For static diff, available values are any power of 2 between 512 and 262144, such as 1024, 2048, and so on. So either 65536 or 131072, there are no values in between.

No difference in profits. The higher the difficulty the less shares are submitted per second. To reduce bandwidth, pool operators increase the difficulty to reduce the number of shares submitted per sec. It doesn't change profits for you. There might be an effect on the number of rejects but you wil...

Prohash recommends that you leave the password field blank so the difficulty self adjusts. Who is they that suggests 8192? Innosilicon? Miners that use 8 have a very low hash rate like gpu mining. Asic miners need a much higher difficulty so that they don't swamp the pool by submitting too many shar...