Hi all,
Thought I'd share a little (long time lurker not much of a poster).
I started mining with the GPU in my Macbook about a year ago back when it actually meant something (dumb move mining on a laptop I know, Burned out logic board anyone?). But it gave me something to do while I read as much as I could about this 'magical' world of BTC.
I then set up a small-mid sized farm with Block Erupters and ran that from underneath my kitchen bench until my wife began to get annoyed at the noise, heat etc. They went to Ebay and I almost made ROI.
Then I switched to CEX and rode the downward wave until the only way I could make anything was obsessively watching and trading (still lost BTC).
Yesterday I cashed out my entire (meager) holdings in CEX, Added a little fiat and bought 55GHs on PBM. This is my largest hash power ever (have climbed from ~70mhs with the macbook to ~4.2Ghs with Erupters, Was sitting around 8GHs with CEX (more in futures but I couldn't see any future in those as the price tumbled) - I guess I have been building the whole time :-) ).
Anyhoo, Just wanted to say that so far it seems like PBM is the best thing out there right now for us small banana miners, I've read all of the scam threads and did it anyway. I think I even used one of you fellas ref links too so if you got an unknown ref it was me :-) ).
Mainly putting this post up to see what my post count is to see if I can enter the giveaways :-)
Maybe my little mining story gives someone some hope that all is not lost as well.
I'm not worried about the fiat cost of my little journey, You have to make mistakes before you get it right. Hopefully I'm on my way now.
Cheers and Beers,
Danglez
Insert obligatory ref link (just to see if it works)
http://pbmining.com?ref=Danglez2907