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Newbie trying to mine

dashingfast

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Hi All,

I am very new to mining.

I started using minergate and was seeing results mining dash, albeit very small amounts and nothing has yet been 'confirmed'. Reading around, the suggestion seemed to be to go directly to a mining pool.

So I have tried using various CPU miners to access mining pools. (Darkcoin cpu miner, sgminer, pooler-cpuminer)

As far as I can tell they are connecting and I get messages, for example are:

C:\pooler-cpuminer-2.5.0-win64>minerd -o stratum+tcp://193.111.141.153:7903 -u XiWCovj9U6Grt7bQRhGG9KGbsbWfxkuJxY -p none -t 2
[2017-09-09 21:19:04] 2 miner threads started, using 'scrypt' algorithm.
[2017-09-09 21:19:04] Starting Stratum on stratum+tcp://193.111.141.153:7903
[2017-09-09 21:19:04] Stratum requested work restart
[2017-09-09 21:19:04] Stratum requested work restart
[2017-09-09 21:19:05] thread 0: 1944 hashes, 15.27 khash/s
[2017-09-09 21:19:05] accepted: 1/1 (100.00%), 15.27 khash/s (yay!!!)
[2017-09-09 21:19:05] thread 1: 4104 hashes, 16.84 khash/s
[2017-09-09 21:19:05] thread 1: 4680 hashes, 19.05 khash/s

So am I right in thinking it is doing its thing?

When I look at the active miners at a particular pool I am using, I am never in the list, even though I have been connected and mining overnight

Nothing appears in my wallet, the address being my trezor (is this a problem with it being an offline wallet?)

I am being a stupid newbie and missing something really basic?

Another point that confuses me is that some cpu miner instructions detail adding the -a X11 parameter for mining dash, although other miners dont mention this. How relevant is this for dash mining? I have tried with and without -a X11 on all miners but the only difference was, when I used -a X11, I never got any message saying (yay!!!).

Thanks
 
Not sure, it has been a year or more since I mined with MINERD. But, I think you need to set the correct algorithm.

Looking at your MINERD output it is showing "Scrypt" it should be "X11".
 
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