If you are on the fence about buying Gunbot, I just want to mention that Gunthar is amazing. It seems like he lives to perfect and support this program. When you purchase Gunbot, you are given an invite to a Telegram chat that Gunthar and, what seems like, thousands of other users hang out in. The users can answer most of your questions pretty much immediately, and if not, Gunthar is never far behind. He's created a forum that has tons of useful information available also. I've been running the program for about 5 days now and have already turned a profit. I'm guessing the program will pay for itself and the VPS it's running on by the end of the 7th day.

I've solo mined for a few years now with crap hardware. I've not found anything but it hasn't really cost me anything either.

I'd suggest you do a lot of reading on here before you start.

I use paper wallets for about 80%, 10% on exchanges, and 10% in a Blockchain wallet.

You could sell stuff in exchange for BTC. There were a few people selling stuff on Craigslist and local sites like that and accepting BTC as a payment option.

A buddy of mine turned me on to Karmacoin.  I'm using karmacoin.info for my pool.  Efficiency seems pretty good, payouts happen when they are supposed to.  Just wanted to share.  Your results may vary, but I'm happy with them.

Good luck with that.  I don't think the dev is around anymore.

I am extremely happy with MultiPool.us.  Payouts happen on time, no major service issues.

I sure was hoping someone would post and quote all of those pictures so we could scroll past them several times.  Who's next?

I'm fairly new to mining and have been leeching information off of BitCoinTalk for while  I figured I'd register and start my account aging so I can join in and share what I've learned in my fairly unguided experience of starting to mine alt coins.  I've tried to do this on a very thin budget, which is partly possible due to the fact I have access to about as many used computers as I can lay my hands on.  I've got three machines running now, each with one GPU.  I plan on adding additional GPUs to two of the machines in the near future. 

Many thanks to the veterans who are willing to share their successes on here and help us new folks out.  I hope to be able to give back to the community with my experiences as well.