0 accepted out of 460? Will my shares be accepted eventually?

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I just started mining on Slush Pool using Macminer with a CPU. I am getting a hashrate of 12.28kH/s with the Scrypt hash algorithm, which I guess is not a big rate at all.

I am wondering about the acceptance bit, do I have to wait for the whole block to finish, so I can get the acceptance and shares, or does this mean I'm wasting my time and it's not going to be accepted?

user13441

Posted 2014-02-13T15:30:48.750

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What coin are you mining, and in what pool? – Nate Eldredge – 2014-02-13T15:44:09.627

scrypt, connected to http://api.bitcoin.cz:8332

– user13441 – 2014-02-13T15:48:55.637

which is Slush Pool – user13441 – 2014-02-13T15:58:04.447

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they are mining bitcoins, SHA-256. I don't think you'll get any shares accepted. SHA-256 is for ASICs. Find yourself some scrypt coin with low difficulty. http://www.coinwarz.com/

– Art Shayderov – 2014-02-13T17:39:54.377

Are you mining with CPU? Then better yet mine Primecoin. – Art Shayderov – 2014-02-13T17:42:31.237

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If you're scrypt mining a SHA256d coin, you will probably never get any shares accepted. You need to use the mining algorithm the coin uses.

David Schwartz

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