issue with mining

[Ragekillen]

hello I have been mining since yesterday and only received money for a short time. my mining paid out 0.57067326 doge-coins, and my hash rate was 298.26kh/s. since then I have not received any updates on my hash rate, found blocks, live balances, etc, etc. This is probably an issue with me seeing as i am new to mining. I currently use the latest bfgminer with the command as follows

bfgminer.exe --scrypt -S opencl:auto -o http://prohashing.com:3333 -u blah -p blah


I thought that was setup correctly but when i woke up my money was the same and i decided i would post this to ask for help and / or guidance

Thank you
sincerely Ragekillen

[Chris Sokolowski]

Hi. With a hashrate that low, you will not be submitting shares very frequently. What is your difficulty? What password arguments are you using? You are only paid once you submit shares, and perhaps you aren't submitting them. If you told me your username, either through this forum or a private message, I could look at your account and see what is happening there as well.

[Ragekillen]

username= Ragekillen . I dont know what you mean password arguments all i use is -p "My Account Password", and I didn't set a difficulty but here are the stats of my current miners, its the same for all.

Difficulty: 4,096
Target difficulty: 4,096 (dynamic)
Work restart delay: Need more shares
Current restart penalty: 1.000
Minimum network difficulty: Not set
2hr share count: 0
2hr avg hashrate: Need more shares
Since first share: No shares yet
Mode: Pay-per-share
Merge mining restarts: dynamic

I have a few vps's running on it figured i could turn a profit but At the moment im going to be losing a lot lol

[Chris Sokolowski]

You don't need to include your account password on the command line.

Looking at the stats, you haven't submitted any valid shares in the past two hours. I think your hashrate is so low that the pool can't even tell if you are connected because you submit shares so infrequently.

I don't think you will find this miner is profitable.

[Ragekillen]

ok and as a final note then can you give me a one last bit of information.
when i turn on --scrypt i get
0 | 1.7/ 1.7/ 3.3kh/s

but without --scrypt i have 13.7Mh/s

what i want to know is why is there such a big difference between the two, the difference in power is what made me concerned that it was my fault

[CritterDog]

username= Ragekillen . I dont know what you mean password arguments all i use is -p "My Account Password", and I didn't set a difficulty but here are the stats of my current miners, its the same for all.

Difficulty: 4,096
Target difficulty: 4,096 (dynamic)
Work restart delay: Need more shares
Current restart penalty: 1.000
Minimum network difficulty: Not set
2hr share count: 0
2hr avg hashrate: Need more shares
Since first share: No shares yet
Mode: Pay-per-share
Merge mining restarts: dynamic

I have a few vps's running on it figured i could turn a profit but At the moment im going to be losing a lot lol

With that low of hash rate you might try setting your difficulty off of dynamic and manually set it to d=512. I ran a gridseed orb on here using d=512 and it worked but I was running on Minera software you won't make much at all though

[Chris Sokolowski]

ok and as a final note then can you give me a one last bit of information.
when i turn on --scrypt i get
0 | 1.7/ 1.7/ 3.3kh/s

but without --scrypt i have 13.7Mh/s

what i want to know is why is there such a big difference between the two, the difference in power is what made me concerned that it was my fault

I'm assuming you're using a CPU. The default setting is SHA-256 (Bitcoin) mining, while the --scrypt option sets mining to use the scrypt algorithm, compatible with this pool. Either way, unfortunately, your earnings with a CPU are not going to be more than the electricity/rental costs. There is dedicated hardware (ASIC miners) that are nearly 100,000 times more efficient than a CPU and yet even they still barely do better than breaking even.