Selling a $40 BevMo! gift card, asking 0.11BTC.  Contact me if interested.  I will do escrow at your cost if you feel it's necessary.

Is this give away still active?  Followed and emailed just in case.

I am interested in trying out an ad campaign, please add me.

Name:    Mikestang
Posts:    8
Activity:    8
Position:    Newbie
Address:    1JtuRYVxQfEpJdnwkbFZq9SNUqggiUZkkt

Anyone happen to have one of these kits laying around they want to get rid of?

<-- New member here as well.  New to the forum, new to BTC, and new to anything involving the command line.  Lots to learn!  Better to get in sooner than later, wish I started this learning process a couple years ago. 

Yes, that was my goal, thank you.

I did read the README, I have added a pool and my username at the command line, it appears that I successfully connected to the pool, just without any mining devices, which is what I was hoping to accomplish (command line noob). I'm not sure I understand your comment.

Perfect, thank you.  

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[2015-02-18 23:48:04] Started cgminer 4.9.1
[2015-02-18 23:48:04] No devices detected!
[2015-02-18 23:48:04] Waiting for USB hotplug devices or press q to quit

Is that a success?

Prior to the arrival of my ASIC mining gear I wanted to try to connect to the pool as a test, just to see if I could do it.  All I have available to use as a miner is the gpu on my graphics card.  I don't expect to accomplish anything with just a single gpu obviously, I only wanted to see if I could connect to the pool.  I tried using GUIMiner to connect, but am not having any luck.  This is what I'm seeing:

2015-02-18 23:10:52: Running command: poclbm.exe MY_ADDRESS_HERE:1x3@solo.ckpool.org:3333 --device=0 --platform=0 --verbose -r1
2015-02-18 23:10:52: Listener for "Default" started
2015-02-18 23:10:55: Listener for "Default": WARNING: ADL missing (no AMD platform?), temperature control is disabled
2015-02-18 23:10:55: Listener for "Default": 18/02/2015 23:10:55, started OpenCL miner on platform 0, device 0 (GeForce GTX 550 Ti)
2015-02-18 23:10:55: Listener for "Default": solo.ckpool.org:3333 18/02/2015 23:10:55, checking for stratum...
2015-02-18 23:11:00: Listener for "Default": solo.ckpool.org:3333 18/02/2015 23:11:00, no response to getwork, using as stratum
2015-02-18 23:08:35: Listener for "Default": solo.ckpool.org:3333 18/02/2015 23:08:35,  timed out
2015-02-18 23:08:36: Listener for "Default": solo.ckpool.org:3333 18/02/2015 23:08:36, IO errors - 2, tolerance 2

What am I do wrong?  Everything, probably.

Thanks.

I see lots of "don't use faucets" responses in this thread, is that just because, for the most part, you'll spend more in electricity using them than they'll payout in satoshi?  I'm new to BTC and have been using a few faucets just get get a positive balance in my wallet.  I click the faucets while doing other computer work, so it's not like I'm sitting there twiddling my thumbs, waiting for faucet timers.  So far I've racked up about 0.003BTC with my spare clicks over the past few nights.

New Bitcoin user here, just getting into the solo mining lottery with ~240GH coming online soon.  Can't win if you don't play.  I've read through this entire thread, but sure I'll have questions when my gear arrives.