How to Connect bitcoind to one of your workers in a pool? I'm trying to start using an old tower to mine bitcoin and am slowly trying to make sense of the setup…


Wallet

I signed up for a bitcoin wallet (coinbase) where I am given an id.
Pool

I joined a pool (Slush's Pool) where I verified my email and added my private? id from my wallet.  They registered a first worker for me:

login: myusername.worker1
password: something given

Miner

(my hardware doing maths), Xeon processor


installed ubuntu server 12.04 64-bit
installed bitcoind, sudo apt-get install bitcoind
configured bitcoind, vim ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf

server=1
daemon=1
rpcuser=INVENT_A_UNIQUE_USERNAME
rpcpassword=INVENT_A_UNIQUE_PASSWORD




What I don't understand is how my pool id is ever connected to what's running on my machine?  I also have no idea what to put for my rpcuser and rpcpassword to ensure it is unique.

I've been reading you can't have a period (.) in your rpcuser name?

Not sure what is the minimum needed in this configuration file:


https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_bitcoind
http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/08/how-to-mine-bitcoins/
If you're mining in a pool, bitcoind doesn't even have anything to do with the system. It doesn't need to be running, it doesn't even need to exist on your hard drive. The remote pool does that for you.