It will still work, you just need to have the daemon enabled in the config file. Just add
To your bitcoin.conf file.

What diff you mine at makes absolutely no difference to your chance of finding a block.

The pool is supposed to do it all for you, assuming the pool software is good enough.

Nothing has changed from this discussion here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=274023.0

Hello
I am going to begin mining bitcoins.
I made a Blockchain account and downloaded GUIMiner.
But it asks for an user name and password.
Where do i get it.
And also what pool is recommended for beginners.

~170 years but that's at today's difficulty.  I think it is safe to assume difficulty will increase slightly between now and then.

Hi,

I have some money on NiceHash that I used for personal testing. I could throw some power at you.
After registering I never got an email and can't login without verifying my email address. You should check this out.
And also during the registration my token expired (less than 2-3 min), this was a bit annoying.

Are you using an already existing solution, because I'm sure I saw this web interface before.
Or are you implementing the backend and protocol from scratch? I just finished implementing GBT and stratum servers, but now I'm thinking of rewriting both with an unified interface. Because the documentation is all over the place and some of the extension are not well defined maybe we can compare notes on it

How much of stratum do you intend to support?
Do you have any testing with different miners and how well they work with your implementation?

I do not want my mining helping bad people that hurt people they don't even know.

It's not a power issue. When my miners go zombie I have more than one copy of cgminer open and the other copy of cgminer eventually picks it up. just lots of down time...