Bitcoin mining ? smthn worth investing in?

[ZERO]

One would think that the bank of japan would be converting it into Yen....

I currently run Bonic and thus a number of various computing projects. Unfortunately my parents air conditioner can not keep up with the heat generated. As a result I have it turned off right now until I can buy more air conditioning. Currently running bonic all the time comes out to over $500 a month in energy costs due to the heat. (we have really poor home cooling and live in the south)

[CYBER]

starsmine ? is that you ?
http://folding.extremeoverclocking.c...hp?s=&u=555243

[StarsMine]

Yes, didnt I already post the link here?

Like I said, I have folded before, just not with a name/team

[brentidge]

what progam should i use to mine and how do i get started has any one heard of silk road?

[acolyte_to_jippity]

what progam should i use to mine and how do i get started has any one heard of silk road?

of course you'd bring up the goddamn drugs

[brentidge]

lol you no it i have no intentions on buying any from them just the idea that selling products for the bitcoins is way cool i just cant figure out this mining thing i got on program guiminner and i cant figure that out any other programs that you people use?

[acolyte_to_jippity]

maybe the official client?

from the official site?

herp?

[Superman]

Just use bitcoin from the website. Doesn't matter program you use, the odds of getting a block together by yourself is like 1 and 310289310293801293 give or take a few 120391203918230. Even if you run your program every day for 365 days you could get 0 blocks, but lets say your lucky and you generate one block, that gives you 50 bitcoins, and if the first post was true about currency exchange then you just made $1000. I do not have my hopes up but I do run it in the background. I have an i7 940 (8 processors) and 2 Radeon HD 4850's crossfired. I should be learning pretty quickly but even running it for 8 hours a day it could take me a few years to get one block...lol

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Also, do not buy bitcoins unless you want to buy something right away with a bitcoin, its pointless. Also, if your lucky and you get a block together, there is a website that will trade bitcoins for gold and silver. Take Alex's advice and invest in real physical precious metals. Cause when our economy shuts down because of greed and abuse of funds, precious metals will be the only thing trusted to buy goods.

[brentidge]

lets all get together and start are own pool i think over little bit of time we can get a all right size pool maybe make up money!
every time i go to start mining i get an error code saying "problems communicating with bitcoin rpc" anyone can help?

[BladeTwinSwords]

One would think that the bank of japan would be converting it into Yen....

I currently run Bonic and thus a number of various computing projects. Unfortunately my parents air conditioner can not keep up with the heat generated. As a result I have it turned off right now until I can buy more air conditioning. Currently running bonic all the time comes out to over $500 a month in energy costs due to the heat. (we have really poor home cooling and live in the south)

I do as well. The Prime Number and SETI programs are my personal favorites as the screensavers are neat.