You might want to look into http://www.bitcoinplus.com/ for CPU mining. The rate sucks terribly, but if you're going to have your computer on anyway and not be doing much besides surfing, it'll make you SOME coin. I've been running it on 2 comps for the past couple days while I keep GUIMiner going in the background. It's made about 0.002 so far. Not a lot at all, by any means, but if you'll have the computer on ANYWAY...
Hopefully, you've got multiple cores in your CPU; that helps a lot.
Topic: Anyone else seem ovewhelmed? - page 2. (Read 2011 times)
Thank you for the starter sites!
I looked into pool mining with the guiminer but I'm only able to pull like 1.6Mhash/s and keep getting errors so its probably not worth it. If I could even manage to make a sliver of a coin off it I wouldn't mind letting it run as electricity isn't an issue with me. Seemed like a nice little hobby to let do its thing at home while I work.
I looked into pool mining with the guiminer but I'm only able to pull like 1.6Mhash/s and keep getting errors so its probably not worth it. If I could even manage to make a sliver of a coin off it I wouldn't mind letting it run as electricity isn't an issue with me. Seemed like a nice little hobby to let do its thing at home while I work.
It IS a bit complicated.
Pun intended?
You don't need to understand the technical details to use bitcoins. You don't even need to understand mining. Just head over to an exchange and buy some bitcoins if you want to use them.
Solo mining is irrelevant, unless you have dozens of GPUs. If you want to mine, just create an account at a pool, download the mining software and enter your user/pass there. Check these links to know if it's worth it:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison
http://tpbitcalc.appspot.com/
PS: Yes, it is kind of overwhelming at first. Just try to avoid technical details if you don't want to know them and skip to the "usage section".
It IS a bit complicated.
If you just want to get some BTC to play around with, install the wallet from Bitcoin.org then go to http://freebitcoins.appspot.com/ and http://dailybitcoins.org/ for some free money. It's not much at all to start with, but it's something.
If you want to get into mining, do you at least have a non-onboard graphics card, preferably ATI and not nVidia?
http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ is very helpful for getting started mining. If you have Windows, Kiv's miner (on that page) is very, very easy to use.
If you just want to get some BTC to play around with, install the wallet from Bitcoin.org then go to http://freebitcoins.appspot.com/ and http://dailybitcoins.org/ for some free money. It's not much at all to start with, but it's something.
If you want to get into mining, do you at least have a non-onboard graphics card, preferably ATI and not nVidia?
http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ is very helpful for getting started mining. If you have Windows, Kiv's miner (on that page) is very, very easy to use.
Is it just me or do bitcoins and everything that comes with them seem alittle overwhelming at first glance? I am in no way computer savy and so far everything I've read seems chock full of technical jargon. I've seen some guides that are alright and I've a basic grasp of the concept of bitcoins but when I looked into pool mining I was just drowning. Any "for dummies" style breakdown out there?
Anyone else feel this way? What have your initial thougjs been?
Anyone else feel this way? What have your initial thougjs been?
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