Ah, I see - the behavior your are experiencing is because you have a very low hashrate. A CPU like a Core i5 can only get about 40 kH/s. At our initial difficulty of 1024, you will average over 10 minutes per share. Our site assumes that if you don't submit any shares for 5 minutes, then your hashr...

Chris Sokolowski wrote:What hardware are you using? That would help me diagnose the issue.

Um, Inter Core i5...I think that's what you're asking for? (Yeah, I don't have the best hardware. )

I'm happy to help. Don't worry about the questions seeming "stupid," we all start with the same questions. We exclusively support the stratum protocol. Some mining software requires you to prefacing the host with "stratum+" but since stratum is the de-facto standard for pools, a...

I recently joined Prohashing and read up on how to mine coins. I decided to use GUI Miner, so I found what to put in the "Host" and "Port" box but I have three questions: What do I put for my username? Is it just the name I signed up with Prohashing with? This probably sounds stu...