I also picked up a couple of these R1-LTC's and although they connect and hash with just a "n=" as the password argument, when I tried the password arguments to solo mine a lower difficulty coin they never connected. Anyone have any insight on this? I'm familiar with solo mining coins with...

u=? Should be C= for the coin shouldn't it?

Easiest way to start is with Nicehash. Download this program and you're mining. https://www.nicehash.com/cpu-gpu-mining

Were you mining in solo or PPS mode at the time?

Awesome, thanks. So what can I look at it to tweak my 2 L3+ miners? I'm shooting for Gulden https://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency/coins/gulden It looks like the network diff is around 36,000. As far as i can tell the "d=xxxxx" is a worker difficulty setting, so what should I shoot for? S...

If I solo mine a coin, do I have to expressly get paid out in that coin? Does "get paid in any coin" only apply to the PPS miners?

Was wondering if someone could shed some light on setting the difficulty when solo mining lower difficulty coins. The Help guide says you'll have lower profitability if you let the pool set your difficulty on a low diff coin. So is the magic something like setting it close to the coin difficulty as ...

Another similar question/problem. I mine Ether until I exceed the free threshold and then some. ~$107. I get paid out sometime after midnight but it leaves like $9 or $10 in my balance. Why? Is it that hard to get paid the entire balance in one shot? Now I have to mine some more to get over the mini...

Will SSNs be required? I assume 1099s will say $0.00 since coins are not legal tender and there is no real way to value it until it is sold for legal tender. Asking for a friend. No to my knowledge right now. All that's needed, I think, is name and address to mail the form - but I'll check on that....

Thanks for the info, I appreciate it. Sounds like just bad timing on my part.