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I have been doing almost every possible thing aside from asking for a donation i just want to get started and if anyone could help me with that i would love to eventually bring it around and help someone else.

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ANYTHING WOULD BE APPRECIATED ;D ;D ;D ;D!

You could cpu mine scrypt, or depending on your hadware gpu mine.

What are you having trouble with? Are you mining bitcoin or altcoins? CPU or GPU mining?

From his original post it doesn't seem like to much of anything.

I have been running bfgminer  for a week now with no payout also ive been trying to reach a cash out quota on every free bitcoin site i can find ( needless to say, thats not going very well either) I am legitimately stumped but open to any other suggestions you may have.

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If you're CPU mining, you might want to try currencies like Primecoin

What are you trying to mine, solo, pool, scrypt, sha-256, gpu, cpu, asic?

This doesn't give any information expect you are running mining software.

People are here to help you figure out solutions to problems, you just have to give the problem, and details of it.

sorry, i am trying to mine bitcoin in a pool
i am also on my laptop. maybe its not efficient enough??
 

There is your problem.  You do not have enough hashing power to make any BTC - ever.

Try something else.  There are plenty of other things to try, here is just one:  get some cash, go on localbitcoins.com, arrange to meet someone at a local coffee shop and buy some BTC from them.

You are not going to do anything on a laptop cpu mining, your just shorting the lifespan of your cpu running all it's threads maxed out.

Unless you have a MBP with nvidia or a alien ware, it isn't worth cpu mining.

You won't be able to mine Bitcoin on a laptop. I can guarantee you're spending more on electricity than you're making back in Bitcoin. Mining on a laptop usually isn't worth it at all, but if you really want to try, I would recommend mining a coin that can only be mined on CPU such as Primecoin.

so i just downloaded a primecoin wallet, its taking a long time to sync with the network (says its 22 weeks behind) but when it comes up, any suggestions for a mining process i should start with??

also thanks to who ever put that little bit into my bitcoin account, made my day.  :)

Can't help you with Primecoin as I've not dabbled in it, so I removed that bit of the quote.

I'd also like to thank whoever put a little bit into wuties BTC wallet, it's small gestures like that from the community at large which ease the pain of the learning curve for new miners - it maybe a trivial (or not) amount but it is incentive to break past that mental "OH FFS - I give up I can't get this to run right!" barrier that all new miners face when setting up at first.

I have mined with PrimeCoin (XPM) quite a bit.  It is pretty much impossible to solo mine now, so you'll need to join a pool.

My favorite pool is http://www.ypool.net  After signing up and logging in, visit the "How to" section to learn everything you need.

Don't expect much from your laptop.  I am still running one pretty high-end server on PrimeCoin (24 cores) and I'm only getting *maybe* 1 XPM per day.  

Since when did 'Newbies' turned into a place for beggars. Buy bitcoins or work for them!

To actually get a share in a bitcoin pool with the xx giga hashes is very difficult. You might get a little more mining a small alt-currency with a GPU or mining with a CPU in a CPU only currency.

Buy BTC, Localbtc is a good choice.

If you want to get btc from mining, you are about 3 years to late, you could try mining alt coins and trading them.

Why not refer to some bitcoin faucets?