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Title: COMPLETELY NEW to Bitcoin Post by: mariokiller64 on May 24, 2011, 04:25:10 AM Alright, well, I heard about bitcoin from an anonymous friend of mine and I decided to try it out...so far I mined for about 20 hours and got 0.12 bitpennies. I thought not to bad, I wish I could do better though, but my graphics card is a GTX 460 and I heard the ATI cards are recommended for this kind of stuff. Anyways, I'm totally new to all this bitcoin stuff, I got a bitcoin address thing, the GPU program, I heard the CPU program isn't recommended because it's much slower and costly. Can I get some more information on this bitcoin stuff? How do I buy stuff with it from people? How do I sell it to people? Do I wait until my package is recieved, then I send the bitcoins? Any info would be nice....
Also, how much bitcoins do the ATI 5000 card series cost in bitcoins? I also heard if you find the right dealer, you can buy some "substances" with your bitcoins, although, I'm not interested in that. I rather have computer parts IMO (Not a druggy). How can I fully enhance my bitcoin mining experience? Title: Re: COMPLETELY NEW to Bitcoin Post by: PLATO on May 24, 2011, 04:49:01 AM Welcome, check out the newbie thread (http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7269.0) and the wiki (http://bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade) then feel free to ask about anything that's still unclear. If you use IRC join #bitcoin on chat.freenode.net. If you use Twitter follow me as I cross the country spending only Bitcoins, http://twitter.com/therealplato (http://twitter.com/therealplato)
-PLATO Title: Re: COMPLETELY NEW to Bitcoin Post by: mariokiller64 on May 24, 2011, 06:14:45 AM Welcome, check out the newbie thread (http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=7269.0) and the wiki (http://bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade) then feel free to ask about anything that's still unclear. If you use IRC join #bitcoin on chat.freenode.net. If you use Twitter follow me as I cross the country spending only Bitcoins, http://twitter.com/therealplato (http://twitter.com/therealplato) I've read a lot, up to the whole Wiki introduction and welcoming to a lot of the forum threads. I'm thinking of selling my GTX 460 for a 5770 to really go into the whole bitcoin process ;D. I still don't understand the whole selling and buying process though :\. Do you think someone would buy my GTX 460 in bitcoins on this forum? ???-PLATO Title: Re: COMPLETELY NEW to Bitcoin Post by: PLATO on May 24, 2011, 05:45:19 PM Maybe - you can make a thread in Marketplace offering it. People will be concerned that you're a scammer since you are unknown, so you may have difficulties. You may have more success using clearcoin.appspot.com (http://clearcoin.appspot.com) to significantly reduce fraud risk.
Most people buy Bitcoins on the Mt. Gox exchange; the problem is getting money into the exchange. You can fund Mt. Gox with Dwolla, or trade directly in #bitcoin-otc or #bitcoin-pit on Freenode. Selling your 460 for bitcoins is a good way to get involved. Again, welcome! Title: Re: COMPLETELY NEW to Bitcoin Post by: mariokiller64 on May 25, 2011, 04:18:12 AM Maybe - you can make a thread in Marketplace offering it. People will be concerned that you're a scammer since you are unknown, so you may have difficulties. You may have more success using clearcoin.appspot.com (http://clearcoin.appspot.com) to significantly reduce fraud risk. Couldn't they just scam me then? :-\Most people buy Bitcoins on the Mt. Gox exchange; the problem is getting money into the exchange. You can fund Mt. Gox with Dwolla, or trade directly in #bitcoin-otc or #bitcoin-pit on Freenode. Selling your 460 for bitcoins is a good way to get involved. Again, welcome! Title: Re: COMPLETELY NEW to Bitcoin Post by: cuddlefish on May 25, 2011, 04:26:43 AM Maybe - you can make a thread in Marketplace offering it. People will be concerned that you're a scammer since you are unknown, so you may have difficulties. You may have more success using clearcoin.appspot.com (http://clearcoin.appspot.com) to significantly reduce fraud risk. Couldn't they just scam me then? :-\Most people buy Bitcoins on the Mt. Gox exchange; the problem is getting money into the exchange. You can fund Mt. Gox with Dwolla, or trade directly in #bitcoin-otc or #bitcoin-pit on Freenode. Selling your 460 for bitcoins is a good way to get involved. Again, welcome! Oh, yes. We're all scammers here. Title: Re: COMPLETELY NEW to Bitcoin Post by: mariokiller64 on May 25, 2011, 04:34:16 AM Maybe - you can make a thread in Marketplace offering it. People will be concerned that you're a scammer since you are unknown, so you may have difficulties. You may have more success using clearcoin.appspot.com (http://clearcoin.appspot.com) to significantly reduce fraud risk. Couldn't they just scam me then? :-\Most people buy Bitcoins on the Mt. Gox exchange; the problem is getting money into the exchange. You can fund Mt. Gox with Dwolla, or trade directly in #bitcoin-otc or #bitcoin-pit on Freenode. Selling your 460 for bitcoins is a good way to get involved. Again, welcome! Oh, yes. We're all scammers here. |