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Title: A newbie question on mining, posting, gpus etc. Post by: Anenome on August 04, 2011, 05:59:07 PM I've been searching for a while and can't find any one document that explains all to newbies. Does anyone know? And I have zero money, in here or the real world. How can I get coins? Someone said mining, but what was my GPU. Well, I'm on a brand new mac G5 with 1 terabyte hard drive, 8 gigs RAM, etc. but don't know where to find info on GPU usage. Can someone explain?
Also, I've posted several times and this group is the only one I can post in. How do I enable being able to post in other discussions? Please let me know, Thanks in advance, anenome Title: Re: A newbie question on mining, posting, gpus etc. Post by: Stephen Gornick on August 05, 2011, 09:29:15 AM I'm on a brand new mac G5 with 1 terabyte hard drive, 8 gigs RAM, etc. but don't know where to find info on GPU usage. Assuming that is an NVidia GPU, you're not going to be getting much from mining. From 3 to 20 MHash/s maybe. A $150 graphics card in a PC is going to get 10 to 50 times that. - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison I've been searching for a while and can't find any one document that explains all to newbies. If you wish to run the client, here's the steps: - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Getting_started and some more info: - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Introduction Some useful info might also be found in the FAQ: - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ For mining, here's a good resource: - http://ewoah.com/technology/a-very-good-guide-to-building-a-bitcoin-mining-rig-cluster-guide Title: Re: A newbie question on mining, posting, gpus etc. Post by: gochk on August 05, 2011, 02:59:33 PM Also, I've posted several times and this group is the only one I can post in. How do I enable being able to post in other discussions? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=15958.0 Quote You are considered "established" if you have spent 4 hours online and have made 5 posts. Title: Re: A newbie question on mining, posting, gpus etc. Post by: zozpuff on August 05, 2011, 08:20:23 PM i'm new too. here's my plan: accumulate some bitcoins in a wallet on my phone to start with, then after it becomes more than i would carry in cash worry about setting up a second wallet offline to send them to.
do you have an android phone? https://market.android.com/details?id=de.schildbach.wallet you run the app, generate a wallet, and have people send bitcoins to the address. they should show up. it's that simple. the hard part is convincing someone to send you bitcoins. Title: Re: A newbie question on mining, posting, gpus etc. Post by: cabreca on August 05, 2011, 11:25:25 PM For GPU mining on a Mac use DiabloMiner. Also, as it stands right now mining difficulty is too high to go at it solo on a single PC (you'll spend a lifetime and not generate a single bitcoin). Look into the mining pools.
Title: Re: A newbie question on mining, posting, gpus etc. Post by: DrHaribo on August 06, 2011, 04:53:50 AM If you are new to bitcoins and want to try mining, feel free to check out my mining pool and mining software at bitminter.com - one of my design goals was to make it as easy as possible for newbies to use.
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