I keep getting wrong PIN errors when I try to add a new address, I haven't changed my pin so I don't know what's going on here.

These constant server outages are driving me insane, what the hell is going on?

It's down for me again on all my miners, this has been happening too frequently.

TRC pool refuses to give me any difficulty above 1, not sure what's going on, tried a dozen different settings with the same result.

I'm getting like 90% stales from this node, at the same time there are other people getting ok shares, I have no idea what's going on.

And the next retarget in 2 days is going to be 237, shit, looks like FTC is going to be unprofitable in less than 2 weeks at this rate, it's only trading for a fraction of what LTC is going for at the same difficulty.

Fanboyism is a goddamn cancer, why must it exist in every niche and community?

Pool website is down today, sucks because it was working great up till now.

Getting constant disconnects on the US server, lost a decent amount of shares because of it.

I've been trying to use this miner since the first release on my 9800GTX, but everytime I start it up it crashes the second it starts mining. I've tried every and all settings on different releases and it continues to crash, I have no idea what's causing it.

I'm getting near constant stratum restart requests on P2Pool now, no idea what's going on.

The auto-payout still isn't working, I've moved the goal post 3 times so far with the system passing it each time with no payout. Is there a manual payout option somewhere? I do not like having coins sitting in the bank this long..

Once LTC stops being dependent on BTC in the exchanges it should takeoff, it's more stable than many of the other currencies, including BTC. Also it has better potential for mining since it's immune from ASICs, once ASICs are commonplace, scrypt currencies will be the only profitable ones out there in reach of regular people. BTC is more supported because it was first, but as time progresses, I think we'll see more support for other currencies.

Guiminer is the easiest, but it's better to learn how to use cgminer directly eventually, it's far more configurable than Guiminer

P2Pool deposits earnings directly to your wallet address, so yes, it needs to be open. This is assuming of course that you only have one miner running, if you have more than one, then all you need to do is put your wallet address you want the coins to be sent to into the miner configuration, you don't need more than one wallet open at a time.

The only thing they've got going for them is that they're hyper efficient, with the same hashing as a high-end GPU, but at a fraction of the energy usage, and they're a lot more expensive. They're only worth it if you were planning on running them dozens at a time, if they were as cheap as a regular GPU people would be jumping on them.

Anyone still mining Bitcoin with a standard system is wasting their time and money, that ship sailed long ago. The smartest thing to do if you still want to mine is to jump on younger currencies like PPCoin or Terracoin if you don't think they're scams. But really, SHA-256 is a dead end, once ASICs are commonplace, all SHA-256 currencies will be out of the hands of regular people, the best bet is to jump on Scrypt based currencies like Litecoin, they are ASIC immune, and you can still make money with a decent rig. Mining though is limited anyway, it's probably better just to drop some Fiat on Litecoins/Bitcoins directly through an exchange and trade on the market, you're more liable to earn a profit that way.

It's the nature of the algorithm, I'm not a computer scientist or mathematician so I can't explain further, all I understand is that the fundamentals of Scrypt are different in a way that basically makes your CPU/GPU already as efficient as one can get with hashing.