No, the part where tealover took payment for a video card that he never delivered is actually the illegal stuff.

You really are just an asshole.

This is a joke, right?

Have you noticed that this is posted on your profile?

"I have been trying to contact tealover for over two weeks. If he responds, we can clear this up. As it stands, he scammed me for 0.4904 btc."

I wouldn't go that far as to say I know what I'm doing - I know how to make some hash rates and I'm pointing my rigs to some stable-ish pools to rake in some $$$.
 
The only cards I personally have experience with are the 7950's and R9 280's (which I believe are rebranded 7970's). I run MSI's in one rig and Gigabyte GV-R928XOC-3GD's in the other and the Gigabytes are crap. Already severely overclocked and apparently pretty unstable, I've already got one down and waiting to find a spare motherboard/proc to try and troubleshoot it without taking down a whole 'nother rig for the duration.

But for right now? I don't think there are any good budget GPU's out there. I bought 3 of those 7950 MSI's for $230/each and 3 R9 280's for $300/each and I got damn lucky doing so. If I had to go out and buy a card today, it'd be

a) anything available

b) the fastest thing I could find for the price

Cards are so marked up right now that the barrier to entry and subsequent return on investment takes A LOT longer, sort of where ASIC/SHA-256 mining was a few months ago. Sorry for that bubble burst...

 - mike

No it isn't, not even in the slightest. Not when you have someone hop onto a thread and say "Its, easyier to do cryptsy trading, ping/pong" and nothing else.

So you've posted your opinion with nothing to back it up. Yay. You're helping no. one.

Ping/pong what? How? What are your methods, considerations, strategies, tools?

Care to elaborate... without having someone ask you to elaborate? Actually - don't answer that. Already have an idea of how much stock to put in your advice. 

 - mike

I have a day job that pays quite well but also demands a helluva lot of my attention.. not thinking that trading is for me unless I put more effort/time into it (that I don't really have at the moment). If there were a way I could learn and get up to the same daily profit I'm making quickly, I'm all for it though.

...starting throwing everything at Hashcows right before Christmas.

That was awesome.

Now mining middlecoin with backups set to the multipool / cryptsy combo. Been having a rough time with middlecoin over the last few days, however, possibly due to the influx of people like me who came over from Hashcows. Getting inconsistent reports of what my rigs are doing vs. what's being accepted at the pool.

 - mike

Mining sort of blew up at work in late November, with a bunch of us jumping on GPU buys (7950's for ~$230? YES PLEASE) and utilizing some spare compute power that we have lying around the server room.

So far a few of us have headed off in different directions, some building their own pools, some solo mining, but I've got two rigs at a combined of about 3MH/s running for about a month now. I was trying to target specific coins (WDC, LTC, even DOGE when it was released and was stupid profitable) but have now settled down on multi-pool mining.

What's cool is that if this keeps up* I stand to cover the costs of my co-pay for our baby due in June with all associated jokes about how, in America, it's damn expensive to have a kid.

 - mike

*which I'm not convinced it will, yet