There needs to be a "paypal for bitcoins" which automatically equates a projected exchange rate and adjusts accordingly. only problem with that would be the creator would be taking on a MASSIVE risk with every transaction.

Thanks for the support everyone!



I actually had no idea what litecoins even were until you wrote this, just spent about 2 hours researching them. seems to be the better way to go for a beginner just getting into it this late in the game.


already ordered one right when the bitcoin to USD rate was going insane, just wondering if its going to come within the year, let alone the quarter. Not too excited about that.

One more question, are mining PCs becoming obsolete? would it be a better investment to just buy some crap netbook or barebones pc and get as many jalapenos as i can fit in my budget before the difficulty gets too insane?

Hey everyone! Brand new to the forums.

Been messing around and have been trying to learn as much about mining for the last month on my work-supplied 22.00 M/hash Macbook Pro Retina running bootcamp, and decided to try it out for real. I ordered a BFL 5Ghz miner but seeing as those probably wont be shipped for a few months, I wanted to make a rig to try to take another step before it comes.

I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on where to start with a simple build? I am an audio programmer but I have never built my own computer so I was wondering where I should start. I wanted to keep the price of the first build really low - preferably around $300, but something I can add a bunch of GPUs to later if need be. Any ideas?

Was looking at the 6870 but newegg seems to be out of stock