Stratum Difficulty

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zelkanov
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Stratum Difficulty

Post by zelkanov » Wed Dec 13, 2017 3:33 pm

Hi

i'm new and using ccminer with GPU mining.

i have used the script, which seems to connect, but the difficulty says "Stratum difficulty set to 65536"

is this something i should customise or leave as default

i have a GTX 1080 Ti

ccminer -a X11 -o stratum+tcp://prohashing.com:3333 --userpass <user>:"a=x11"

my earnings also say Scrypt: (1): and is clocking up time, but i have litecoin set in my payment and mining options..

also when i open taskmanager, my GPU usage % doesnt seem to be going up?

am i missing something or am i all good?

thanks

Zelkan.
greaseman316
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Re: Stratum Difficulty

Post by greaseman316 » Wed Dec 13, 2017 5:11 pm

personally id find another algo to mine with gpu. even with ASICs pay pretty much suxxxxx
Foxx
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Re: Stratum Difficulty

Post by Foxx » Wed Dec 13, 2017 5:55 pm

right, you do not want to mine on the SHA-256, Scrypt or X-11 algos with a GPU, you won't make squat due to the difficulty being so high. for a GPU, you want to mine any of the algos that are ASIC resistant. these include: Ethash, Groestl, X11Gost, CryptoNight, Eqihash, LYRA2 REv2, NEOScrypt, LBRY, Blake (2b), Blake (14r), Pascal and Skunkhash.

best of luck.
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AppleMiner
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Re: Stratum Difficulty

Post by AppleMiner » Wed Dec 13, 2017 6:07 pm

GPU will not find many valid shares with the current minimum difficulty.
I would look for a pool that mines ASIC resistant coins ETH and the like, with a GPU card.
zelkanov
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Re: Stratum Difficulty

Post by zelkanov » Sat Dec 16, 2017 3:22 am

ah cool, thanks for the info guys

will i need a different website or can i mine those algorythems on this one, by changing teh -a option in the script for ccminer?

appreciate the tips :)
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AppleMiner
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Re: Stratum Difficulty

Post by AppleMiner » Sat Dec 16, 2017 3:31 am

A different pool with lower hashrates until diff minimum is lower I think.
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