In the future if anyone has similar problems, this is how it was fixed. SryptMiner GUI will not work with a pool that has Stratum. This means the prefix stratum+tcp://us.lifeforce.info:1616. It seems like almost everything uses stratum though, so I gave up on trying to find a pool for my software, and found software for my pool, I am using minerd now and it works. A whole 16 khash/s but it works. Will look into GPU mining at a later date. Also, the "minerd -a --scrypt -t 6 -s 4 -o stratum+tcp://gld-eu.lifeforce.info:1616 -u yolomojo.1 -p 1234" Lifeforce tells you to put in is the wrong code. I had to modify it to this "minerd --url stratum+tcp://gld-eu.lifeforce.info:1616 -u yolomojo.1 -p 1234".

Hey I'm new here. So I'm trying to CPU mine with ScryptMiner GUI, and its not working. I'm trying to use the pool settings seen at https://www.gldtalk.org/index.php?topic=361.0 , as it is one less thing that I can screw up. (I will enter my pool info once I can get this working, I just want to try eliminate variables.) I have it set at 8 threads, scantime 25. I hit the start button, and it says"[XX:XX:XX] - Miner started. It usually takes a minute until the program starts reporting information. Parameters: --algo scrypt -s 25 --url http://cryptocoinmine.com:3333 --userpass ipaint.test:test --threads 1 -P ". Almost 15 minuets later, nothing happens. The output spams, "[20XX-XX-XX XX:XX:XX] HTTP request failed: couldn't connect to host
[20XX-XX-XX XX:XX:XX] json_rpc_call failed, retry after 30 seconds" every 30 Sec. Do I just need to weight longer for the Miner to start? 15 minuets seems long for something like this to start. I can't figure it out. Any ideas?

Also, from what I understand, modifying the thread # and scantime, is mostly used for increasing hashrate and reducing rejected shares right?