<p>Uh Oh, the high level answer is it means you are not getting any bitcoins.</p>

<p>The lower level answer is harder to figure out without more information, basically, somewhere in the software/hardware stack is a problem that is preventing you from returning valid shares.  It could be a hardware problem but most likely it is just a configuration problem.</p>

<p>In the comments below, can you answer:
1:  What hardware are you running this on?  CPU?  GPU? model?
2:  What does your GUIminer window look like (attach a screen shot).
3:  Did you create a worker on deepbit.com?</p>

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2013-08-18T03:19:20.690Z
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tbenz9
<p>I am using guiminer .The pool is deepbit.com.<br>
when I start mining, states show <code>shares 0 accepted 6 stale/invalid</code><br>
What does the message mean?</p>

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2013-08-18T06:17:45.593Z
This is a very similar question to this one: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/1416/what-are-stale-shares-and-what-can-i-do-to-avoid-them You may be processing or transmitting too slowly for your work to be accepted.
asciimo
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Welcome to the site! And yes, the question has been asked before - the search bar is your friend :)
Joe Pineda
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guiminer shares 0 accepted 6 stale/invalid,what does the message mean?
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# guiminer shares 0 accepted 6 stale/invalid,what does the message mean?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-08-18)

I am using guiminer .The pool is deepbit.com.  
when I start mining, states show `shares 0 accepted 6 stale/invalid`  
What does the message mean?

**Tags:** mining-pools, terminology, guiminer

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: This is a very similar question to this one: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/1416/what-are-stale-shares-and-what-can-i-do-to-avoid-them You may be processing or transmitting too slowly for your work to be accepted.  
> **username_2**: Welcome to the site! And yes, the question has been asked before - the search bar is your friend :)  

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### Answer by username_3 on 2013-08-18. Score: 0

Uh Oh, the high level answer is it means you are not getting any bitcoins.

The lower level answer is harder to figure out without more information, basically, somewhere in the software/hardware stack is a problem that is preventing you from returning valid shares. It could be a hardware problem but most likely it is just a configuration problem.

In the comments below, can you answer:
1: What hardware are you running this on? CPU? GPU? model?
2: What does your GUIminer window look like (attach a screen shot).
3: Did you create a worker on deepbit.com?

Welcome to StackExchange!


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