It takes literally months before Gomez accepts your account to pay (it did for me anyways a few years ago when I started).  They pay me now, but using your CPU would be be spent doing bitcoins.  also Gomez sucks up your bandwidth, too, in case you have to pay for that as well.
 

If you don't want them, I"ll take them!  address in my signature!

I've been doing distributed networking projects for years, so the "waste" of the electricity for me wouldn't be a big deal, since I got *zero* return on my CPU usage for those.   So, while informative, and I thank you for that, it will fall on deaf ears

I keep trying to get her to adopt that method, too, but honestly, we both recognize that without checks and balances, we'd probably have no money tied up in savings.  At least this way we have some back-up money (and we have children, so that eats up a ton of money). 
 
Without this method, I'd spend my extra cash on strippers and weed

I have a "casual" rig, and I'm using bitcoins to (slowly) build up a gaming rig.
 
You see, (and I pointed this out in a different thread) my casual rig is starting from a net value of "zero" as in "not in debt", because I look at it like this:  My wife let me purchase X dollars worth of gaming machine last year, and won't let me purchase anything new for a few more years.  So bitcoins aren't "real money" to her, and thusly anything I mine is positive gain.
 
I bought a second 5770 with bitcoins.  I just purchased a Corsair 800D case (I need it for cooling future cards since my other case sucks) and will continue to slowly piecemeal together a nice gaming rig.
 
So I'm the true "casual" guy.  I'm not in it for big gains (although it'd be nice), I just want to fund a nice gaming rig that stays ahead of the casual gamer's curve in terms of performance.  So a pair of 6990s (or whatever the equivalent is when I finally get $600 or $700 worth of coins) will be my next purchase, and then we'll see after that.
 
I don't begrudge the hardcore miners, shit if I was single I'd be doing exactly that.  So if you're in a boat similar to mine, just get what you want, and don't feel bad.  If the bitcoin economy crashes, you still have a nice gaming rig for enjoyment. 

Once my "man cave" is complete, I plan on trying to get my old Power Mac 8600 back up and running with OS 10.(whatever will run on it (it did have 10.1 before I had to shut 'er down due to space)) and seeing if I can't get a CPU miner working, just for shits and grins.
 
I'm also hoping someone gets really bored and makes a CPU miner that works on the 68020 processor, and I'll see if my Mac LC that has A/UX on it to behave (although I've forgotten root password, and don't have installers anymore, so that will be fun to try to even get logged in).
 
If someone made a CPU miner that ran on System 7 (or 8 or 9) that would totally rock, too.

When your computer sits "idle" (because you're mining) instead of gaming all day like before, and you can hang out with your wife more, she wonders who this person is and where'd he put her husband?

You just described the second reason I got into them

Gomez also sucks down a lot of bandwidth, and if you're like me, and have to pay for it, you end up losing money.
I stopped doing Gomez as soon as I discovered bitcoins

And I mean in the context of your close friends/relatives, I don't mean here, since we obviously know you're into bitcoins.
 
I'm getting at... have you told your friends/family about bitcoins?  Or, like me, do you just avoid doing so because of the weird looks/questions that you're going to get?
 
Case in point, I told my wife, tried to explain about them, and I got stares, and then, "Have you bought any with our money yet?"   
"No, I just mine them, and it costs a little bit more electricity than normal."  [tonto's note, just a few dollars a month since they're 5770s]
"Well whatever, just don't spend any of our money on them."
 
And then the other day when I used some to buy a new Corsair case on newegg, she asks, "So how much did this cost again?"
"None, I used bitcoins to buy them."
"Hmmm, so you didn't use any of our money to buy that?"
"Nope."
"oh ok"
 
And that's all that's ever spoke on it.  So I just avoid it now.  If any of my friends ever tell me (or I overhear them speaking) that they're into bitcoins, I'll tell them, otherwise mum's the word!

I'm also using my bitcoins to (slooowly) build up a good gaming rig.  I got the case (corsair 800d), and now working towards a 6990 (or two, depending on how well bitcoins do later in the year).  I was never in it to profit (plus I didn't get into bitcoins until May).  Just for some casual cash to buy computer crap that my wife won't let me buy.
 
She doesn't see the few extra cents per month in electricity, and also doesn't see any unusual credit card purchases (thanks to newegg gift cards purchased via bitcoins)
 
I'll admit I should have got the 6990 first before the case (so that I could earn more bitcoins to make this faster)... but my current case can barely keep my 5770s cool, so I needed to get that first.
 
After 6990s will come some SSDs

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

I just used this site last night, and it was 100% perfect.  
 
Will use again, thanks
 
+1
 
oh, and my amount wasn't huge, but enough to make me nervous for my first-time:  $150.
But went smoothly.

 
Haha, yes.  For the naysayers and politically correct "modern day" feminists (usually male) who maintain that looks don't (or shouldn't) matter, go ahead and tell your mom/wife/girlfriend that her body and looks don't matter or appeal to you, and that you'd rather look at a puddle of mud.... and then report back here on how far that gets you...
 
Fact is, half the population (male) are biologically programmed as visual creatures.  The other half (male) are programmed to advertise those looks for the look-ees.  Is it right?  That's not for me to determine.  Does personality count?  Of course it does, and can sway a physically "hot" woman into not looking so hot after all, or can sway a not very attractive physically woman into being very beautiful.
 
But fact is, we're all programmed, so just roll with it!

If I had sex with that woman, I could then die a happy man

am I the only football fan on this board???  Or maybe off-topic isn't read as much?

Very cool idea.  I'm too bitcoin broke to buy one right now (saving up my minimal btc for a Corsair case), but I could see getting one of these and placing it in a Geocache here in Lawrence, KS

From my avatar, you might guess which team I'm a fan of.
 
Who else reading these forums is a fan of American Football!? (hereafter in this thread will be referred to as "football", and the rest of the world's football, if it comes up, will be referred to as "soccer"... please refrain from doing a soccer/football thread, or start your own soccer/football thread, let's keep this on topic).
 
 
So if any of you are football fans, post your team/mascot/whatever.  Go ahead and try to smack talk, too, if you dare.
 
August is just around the corner!!!
 
 

I will sell you one of my nose-hairs for 5btc.  This way you can start cloning me with my DNA found on said hair.