hey all, new user with questions

[eldookae]

Hey all, I am new to mining (have not started mining yet) and am a little overwhelmed and confused. There are so many variables to go over and learn. I am wondering if there is someone who for a fee would take an hour or less on the phone and help me figure all this out (on a basic level) and get me started mining. As of now I have a couple gtx 980 ti systems, a 1080 system and a 1080ti system to start on and once I get learn a little more and am able to find hardware in stock would like to build a dedicated miner or two.

Thanks!

[eldookae]

I am up and mining on two pcs atm, one is a 1080 system and the other is a 1080ti. I am using awesome miner on each one. They are currently saying I am earning .001062 and .001626 btc per day. Does this sound about right? It is set to mine whatever is the most profitable coin to mine in awesome miner. This a good setup for use here at prohashing? Recommend any other ways to mine? I see the two workers status here on the website and notice it switches coins all the time, this normal I presume? I set prohashing to send payment to litecoin, so every so often it will automatically send litecoin to me then?

Also the earnings per day it shows in awesome miner would be approx 25 dollars a day for the 2 systems, this seem right?

thanks again all

[eldookae]

Okay, next update, under Earnings it says

Rejects Share Reasons
Miner is using an incorrect algorithm. 20

Ideas what this means and how to fix?

[eldookae]

Okay, back again. I now had a count of 80 on the 'Miner is using an incorrect algorithm.'

I was looking through the settings in Awesome Miner and in the Pool settings it has a drop down to select a Coin. Depending on which coin I chose either ccminer would load when I started mining or excavator would start. When excavator would run everything seems to work (connects to prohasing with my username etc) but when ccminer runs it cannot connect.

What should I choose for Coin in this spot? Is excavator the miner that should be running?

https://imgur.com/11dvBNl

[AppleMiner]

Be aware you are mining with GPUs on a pool that has algos that ASIC machines can use.

There might be other pools, with asic-resistant coins that only work with GPU rigs, that will give you a higher profit payout than you will be able to get using the video cards to just mine on X11 and Scrypt algos.

The incorrect algo errors might be due to the time it takes for the GPUs to find shares.

Good Luck
HAPPY HASHING!

[eldookae]

Hey appleminer, thanks for the reply, where do gpu miners go to mine, do you know any pools I should be looking at? Apparently there must be some as every gpu on the planet is oos Is it not profitable to mine here with gpus do you think? How can I find out how profitable it is or isn't mining in this pool? I am currently getting ~825 mh/s on my 1080 and 1250 on my 1080ti according to awesome miner.

[AppleMiner]

Apparently there must be some as every gpu on the planet is oos

Not sure what this means, sorry.


Guess it depends on the algo you are mining on...but I do not think your awesome miner is working correctly on this pool.
The 1080 and 1080TI I think only pull 30 megahash each. so maybe 60 total? So not sure how awesome miner is reporting 825 and 1250 for hashrates.


I would suggest maybe looking into Claymore’s Dual Ethereum GPU Miner for Windows.
This should allow you to mine Ether and merge mine another coin at the same time for a bit of extra profits.

Just need a pool that has ether mining on it.
GOOD LUCK!