I'm agreeing with this. I don't see ASICs mucking up the price much

I highly recommend Jupiter Broadcasting's Plan B (link).
It's not a "you're new to bitcoin! here's how to do it!" show, but you learn a bunch from hearing about it.

OP: thanks for this mirror of this thread.

I have 0 BTC and no mining rig.
Time to throw myself to lottery all over the place!

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thanks!

All the calculators I look at show -- at current difficulty! -- a pitiful return on a BFL 5Gh/s miner.
This blows my mind. By the time I would get one, I doubt it would ever profit.

If this service is legit, I'd be interested.
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I'm a dev, I work primarily in Java.
Right now I'm looking to make better mobile apps -- higher quality widgets and things like that.
Right now the choices - at least on google play - are slim and give limited user-friendliness and configuration... even though those two tend to be in opposition :p

Alt coins can become useful, I think, if people start accepting them for services or goods. That's all that is missing.