<p>I am also new to slushpool with bfgminer.
follow steps if it works to you .</p>
<pre><code>sudo bfgminer
</code></pre>
<p>then enter url</p>
<pre><code>stratum+tcp://stratum.slushpool.com:3333 
</code></pre>
<p>then it will ask username with worker</p>
<pre><code>username.worker
</code></pre>
<p>then password</p>
<p>thats it .</p>

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<p>I am a complete newbie and just want to see how mining works in principle. No profit required. I have created an account on slushpool and have username and password. Then I go to my Ubuntu machine (a desktop, with GPU, no ASICs or something) and ran</p>
<pre><code>bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.slushpool.com:3333 -u myusername -p mypassword
</code></pre>
<p>It started to print in cycles</p>
<pre><code> [2020-11-13 10:17:47] Waiting for devices; press 'M+' to add, or 'Q' to quit
 [2020-11-13 10:17:47] Probing for an alive pool
 [2020-11-13 10:17:48] pool 0 JSON stratum auth failed: [
   -1,
   &quot;Internal Server Error&quot;,
   null
]
 [2020-11-13 10:17:48] No servers were found that could be used to get work from.
 [2020-11-13 10:17:48] Please check the details from the list below of the servers you have input
 [2020-11-13 10:17:48] Most likely you have input the wrong URL, forgotten to add a port, or have not set up workers
 [2020-11-13 10:17:48] Pool: 0  URL: stratum+tcp://stratum.slushpool.com:3333  User: myusername Password: mypassword
 [2020-11-13 10:17:48] Press any key to exit, or BFGMiner will try again in 15s.
 [2020-11-13 10:18:04] No servers were found that could be used to get work from.
 [2020-11-13 10:18:04] Please check the details from the list below of the servers you have input
 [2020-11-13 10:18:04] Most likely you have input the wrong URL, forgotten to add a port, or have not set up workers
 [2020-11-13 10:18:04] Pool: 0  URL: stratum+tcp://stratum.slushpool.com:3333  User: myusername  Password: mypassword
</code></pre>
<p>Why? What is happening? What am I doing wrong?</p>

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# Cannot connect to slushpool with bfgminer

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-11-13)

I am a complete newbie and just want to see how mining works in principle. No profit required. I have created an account on slushpool and have username and password. Then I go to my Ubuntu machine (a desktop, with GPU, no ASICs or something) and ran

```
bfgminer -o stratum+tcp://stratum.slushpool.com:3333 -u myusername -p mypassword

```

It started to print in cycles

```
 [2020-11-13 10:17:47] Waiting for devices; press 'M+' to add, or 'Q' to quit
 [2020-11-13 10:17:47] Probing for an alive pool
 [2020-11-13 10:17:48] pool 0 JSON stratum auth failed: [
   -1,
   "Internal Server Error",
   null
]
 [2020-11-13 10:17:48] No servers were found that could be used to get work from.
 [2020-11-13 10:17:48] Please check the details from the list below of the servers you have input
 [2020-11-13 10:17:48] Most likely you have input the wrong URL, forgotten to add a port, or have not set up workers
 [2020-11-13 10:17:48] Pool: 0  URL: stratum+tcp://stratum.slushpool.com:3333  User: myusername Password: mypassword
 [2020-11-13 10:17:48] Press any key to exit, or BFGMiner will try again in 15s.
 [2020-11-13 10:18:04] No servers were found that could be used to get work from.
 [2020-11-13 10:18:04] Please check the details from the list below of the servers you have input
 [2020-11-13 10:18:04] Most likely you have input the wrong URL, forgotten to add a port, or have not set up workers
 [2020-11-13 10:18:04] Pool: 0  URL: stratum+tcp://stratum.slushpool.com:3333  User: myusername  Password: mypassword

```

Why? What is happening? What am I doing wrong?

**Tags:** miner-configuration, ubuntu, bfgminer, slush


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2021-01-17. Score: 1

I am also new to slushpool with bfgminer.
follow steps if it works to you .

```
sudo bfgminer

```

then enter url

```
stratum+tcp://stratum.slushpool.com:3333 

```

then it will ask username with worker

```
username.worker

```

then password

thats it .


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