I use BTC Miner for IOS ......... free too

Thanks for that, although looking at prices, SP-20 is around the £1300 GBP mark, I can buy an S3 with psu for £220 GBP, but I will look into the sp-20 some more ..... thanks again :

Q: I have about £450 GBP to spend on miners ..... was going to get 2x S3, looks like I can get a couple for under £400 ...... would that be my best option? I'm fortunate in that I can run them for 12 hours a day on free electric (work), so power consumption cost are not an issue .....

Thanks
 

Hehe, damn this good luck ......... I don't get my 2x S3's till end of month could do with em now!!!

don't worry, bitstamp back up

What exchanges does everyone use?

I'm a newbie and have been using Bitstamp to monitor the exchange rate and the general price trends but this morning Bitstamp is down due to a dos attack .....

Many thanks, thats my reading list sorted for this morning ........

Hi all ..... a week old newbie here and my first post .... hehe, please be gentle

I've been trying to get my head around everything, stage by stage.

I first tried out various wallets, found one I liked.

Then I tried out various pools, again, found one I liked and cracked on getting both my laptops mining using onboard GPU and the GUIminer software. I only went for GUIminer as I wasnt sure about command prompt things, had a quick try with bfgminer and cgminer but couldnt get em working, so initially struck with GUIminer.  Everything seemed to be working well, my shares were showing up in the pool and I was receiving confirmed BTC payouts (albeit a tiny fraction of a BTC, but at least everything was showing up).

So, move onto the next stage I thought and bought a little USB 336MH/s block eruptor. Again, this was only for testing, I realised from the start that I'd need to get a decent hardware miner, probably a couple of Antminer S3's
 
Anyway, got the USB stick and drivers working and showing up in windows (win7 on one machine, win8 on other) but it wouldnt show up in the GUIminer drop down. Had another play around with BFGminer and CGminer but my asic usb wasnt found, so again I gave up with those two.

So yesterday I stumble upon Bitminter and its own little app ..... very nice!!! Got it all up and running in 5 minutes. The asic USB and both laptops GPU's are mining, giving a total of 364Mhps  (335mhps + 18mhps + 11mhps) ..... all seems fine ......

EXCEPT ......

I've left both laptops running through the night and don't seem to have earnt any btc or fraction thereof. I realised that I'm still woefully lacking in Mhps and that will be solved end of the month with the S3's, but even when I mined with just a single laptop GPU, getting 15Mhps I showed up 0.00000018 BTC after one night (that was at Slush's).

As per things I've read earlier in this thread I've gone to 'my account' and 'workers' ...... Ghps = 0, proofs of work accepted = 6008
In 'my account' 'transaction history' it shows balance 0 BTC and 0.00001367 NMC. Now, the fact that NMC's are showing up in my account must mean that my mining software (bitminter) is talking to the pool ..... what am I missing

Thanks in advance
Boston