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What do you think the best way to get bitcoins is?

Is it mining solo for a year or joining a pool?

Or is it doing random surveys that steal your info?

EDIT: Without using any money generated not by bitcoins

Good Questions. I would like to hear some thoughts on this too.

Buying them seems like the quickest way

Mining is the best way to get bitcoins. Mining Creates new bitcoins out of thin air

solo mining is only if you have a very huge mining farm.

otherwise you are better with joining a pool.

I am planning to start my own pool soon.

1. Convert fiat into coin
2. Invest in mining hardware
3. Work for them

this might be a stupid question but what is fiat?

and who do you work for

Fiat is government issued money, like the American dollar and the British pound.  I do freelance artwork for Bitcoin, you can find my thread in my signature :)

buy them or mine in a pool.

"Fiat" is latin and means something like "let there be". You might know the term "Fiat Lux", which means "let there be light". Fiat money is money that can just be created from nothing. Governments can just say "let there be money", hence the term "Fiat money".

Pool mining is goos way to start mining.

If you want them without buying, then pool mining for sure.

If you simply want them quickly, buying (e.g mt.gox) is the way to go!

I've made .3 btc at Rugatu, and nearly 1 BTC playing poker at seals with clubs.  Wthere are lots of other opportunities out there as well, I am sure.

To get initial fraction of bitcoin one could do this:

1. Get ripples (free ones).
2. Exchange 35k XRP into 0.7 btc. (need to find someone willing to do so, i already did)

That's probably what many of bitcoin users did.

(edit: only applies if you registered here before give away began)

Sell something used that is valueable enough and someone will defently buy it.
Something that you bought and do not use that much anyway :D

Just noticed your sig. Pirate? GLBSE? Maybe it's time to update it ;)

Offer work or used Stuff and let em pay in bitcoins.

thread derailed

you carry no mark of history?
how much does the sig of the casino pay you? I might get interested

More than that. Isn't pirate and GLBSE the complete opposite of "Best way to get bitcoins" ?

You can register an account and earn Bitcoins using your personal referral link.
Wow, we are back on topic :)

Its hard to get bitcoins, i mining three days on slush pool on my r5830 and im just little over 0,1 B. If i solo mined, i would still have 0 B  ;D

it too late to mine for coin right now,

If you're going to start mining, make sure you understand the cost of the electricity you'll be using and the equipment you'll be buying. You could easily end up losing more than you would if you had just bought bitcoins directly.

I would like to hear this too.

Why is it too late?

It is late to mine bitcoins, unless your electricity fee is "free of charge", but one may try litecoin mining and exchanging it for bitcoins. http://dustcoin.com/mining

You also have to consider reduced living of your GPU when mining. Even with "free" electricity i will stop mining soon after difficulty climbs a bit more, not worth the risk of buying new GPU due to malfunction ...

Use www.BitHits.info to get free BTC :P Not the best or the fastest way, but a way nonetheless.

Unless you have a LOT of GPUs running mining is usually actually costing you more than you are making, and those free bitcoin things would take like a year to get enough to buy anything at all.

So it's not too late if you have access to computing resources (GPU/FPGA/ASIC) + electricity which is less than the BTC mining rate...

At current bitcoin prices $40-50 you can still cover your electricity bill with graphics cards but this may not last much longer.

Use http://www.bitcoinx.com/profit/ to predict your costs and profit.

Ati 5830 cards are probably the cheapest they mine as fast as my 7850s (but use a bit more electricity)

Just buy them..

Pooled mining works with spare resources. I have a 6990 (about $400 on ebay) running phoenix 2 on win 7 with aggression at 3 and barely notice it running all day while I am at work. My fan is at 30percent right now and I am getting about .07bc/day. Currently that is about $3/day . I just cashed in my btc from the last year for about $700. Although most were earned while difficulty were lower, this was only a part time rig.

Second wave...i'd say. No way to compete against miners.