Introduction to Bitcoin Mining

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Given the costs of creating the ASIC fabbing hardware, be careful about putting all of your money on them being released. BFL may be selling their FPGAs with pre-ordered promises of ASICs in the hopes that interest will create enough funding to actually produce the ASICs.

I'm in the camp of "don't preorder ASICs with money you need", and consider it more like gambling $1299 for an SC.

1. No fees or regulations by a 3rd party
2. Interesting options for the latent trader wanna-be in me
3. If it catches on, I would be highly supportive of this.
4. It's geeky

I just wish that I could use all of my IRL time to chase this and read everything and play in all the fields. But real life calls, and is what is currently funding my BTC interest.

I also not-too-recently ordered a BFL Single FPGA, a week later sent an email asking for confirmation or anything on my order. Still haven't gotten a reply a week and a half since then.

Good to know others *do* get replies after a while of waiting, but I'd like to get my post count up and hop over to the Hardware section to see if I can rouse them there. ()

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Hello! I'll introduce myself, so that I can go on posting elsewhere .

I've been lurking on the BTC scene for a while and recently started trading in
#bitcoin-otc, username Hunner. I'll sign this message with my gpg key just for
kicks.

I'm a geek and want to try some of the mining stuff, profit or not. We'll see if
BFL follows through on their promises.

Ciao~
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