So I am new to this whole thing (I just heard of BC today)....
I downloaded the main BC client. How do I find pools to mine in?
I downloaded the main BC client. How do I find pools to mine in?
It is not just the pool you need - it depends on your hardware as well!
Just downloading the client and start mining won't be enough, because you need a proper graphiccard for that.
Any mining involves a lot of SHA-hashing and the times where a CPU was enough are long gone - a decent CPU will do about 3-6 million hashes per second to solve blocks, but you need to look more at about 250-350 million hashes per second!
Take a look here for a more detailed answer and here for a hardware comparison (you want to look at the columns "Model" and "Mhash/s").