Are people still mining this garbage? The price tanked instantly when all the early, privileged miners dumped (yes privileged, this was in no way a fair launch). And yet people keep flocking to this scam...

If your looking for a new coin that actually had a clean launch with competent devs check out Rapidcoin:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=448291
http://getrapidcoin.com/

cool new coin. only 55 million scheduled....kind of nice compared to the 1 bagillion most new coins seem to have

just downloaded the wallet for anybody who is giving them out  

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US. Sorry I should have included that above.

If you are new to the boards and looking to aquire some bitcoin but can't post elsewhere, I am selling mine at 4-5% less than Gox price. I prefer cash deposit but other options can be discussed. Post here if you are interested with how much and what price you want to pay. I'll respond with further details if I'm interested in your offer.

Yes but that is for a group buy. You have to wait for the group buy, then you have to wait while the miners ship from China to the re-seller, and then wait AGAIN for the re-seller to ship them to you.

I have these in my hand right now and can cut most of that waiting out. Priority Mail shipped today means you will have them Tuesday or Wednesday at the latest

I have 20 USB Block Erupters for sale and two Anker 10 Port Hubs. Each Hub had 10 Miners plugged into it and I was getting a total of about 6.6 Gh/s with all 20 USB miners

Price is .25 BTC for each Block Erupter and .4 BTC each for the Anker Hubs. Prices include shipping to the Domestic US. If you are outside of the US I will ship to you for an additional .1 BTC

PMs with offers please

You should read this http://www.coindesk.com/a-look-inside-kncminer/

It will answer some of your questions

http://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency

The main page is a list of profitably for a lot of coins, with the current most profitable at the top. They also have mining calculators for all of the coins. Difficulty has to be manually entered but its not hard to estimate values for future difficulty.

Well for starters stay away from BFL at all costs. If you are new I suggest the ASICMiner USB block erupters. The price just dropped to an affordable level for small and new miners.

So according to the UNOCS website PHX is supposed to be focused on the "entertainment" industry. Now that I am mining these on multipool.in I'm wondering what exactly that means. I know they have a poker site that uses PHX but other than that what exactly is PHX used for and how is it beneficial for the "entertainment" industry to use it?

3 btc for both working

Sorry but your logic is flawed. The supply can't meet the demand which is why people are over paying for asics in the first place, and why so many companies are trying to copy cat now. There is a very clear demand.

Yes the difficulty will increase and yes some smaller asic miners will be left out in the cold but most of them will have no problem getting a profit. It just won't happen overnight.

But in any case the people that make the argument that asic's aren't worth the effort are not thinking long term. Even if you struggle to make your initial investment back in bitcoins before the difficulty gets too high, you still have the hardware in your possession. It can easily be turned to any other sha-256 coin and continue making profits. I currently mine ppcoin and terracoin with usb erupters. I actually turn a higher profit in terracoin than if I set them to mine bitcoin.

Its not impossible to scrypt mine with an ASIC just a lot more difficult and at this point nobody has spent the time/money to develop one. Basically scrypt mining is very memory intensive while sha-256 (bitcoin) is not. So any board with an asic chip would need a lot of high speed memory to scrypt mine (like vram on your graphics card)

Yes difficulty will increase as more asics hit the network, but that doesn't necessarily mean a huge drop in ROI. Those miners may be mining fewer coins but what if the coins are worth more in 8 weeks than they are today?  Bitcoin has been on a rather steady upward trend since asics really began impacting the network. Yes its up and down a lot but compare the price/market cap to just 6 months ago.

Yes you can send them directly. All you need to send BTC on the network is a bitcoin address to recieve the coins. The network doesn't care who the owner of the address is. However be careful if you do that because you are trusting SR to show your balance correctly. If you send to a wallet first you atleast will have a record of a transaction from an address you own in case of disputes.