If you have namecoins ( i've been mining them at bitminter pool ), and want to trade them for BTC, i discovered that you can do that at www.btc-e.com

Register at BTC-e, then look under finances section, ( link in top right hand corner of the site ), then hit the deposit button against NMC row, and it will give you a namecoin address to use to pay NMC into BTC-e, then once NMC there, you can trade for BTC

Just passing on my recent learnt knowledge from one newbie to another..

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Any small BTC, NMC or Ripples donations appreciated, send to

BTC - 1CMS4gsJic56w2HC1GwXWdi4GdnDQhQ6Zb
NMC - NJ1aa7bjnaJpAH9KcQbaZScVd6nzXRziAM
RIPPLES - rMnPdZ4uMQP8BEkPoApepcMfTRNhy1nHU2

So i'm now underway pool mining with BitMinter

Quick and easy to get up and running.

I'm running at about 45 to 50 Mhps and the gui suggests around 0.005 BTC per day 'mint speed'

Interested in reading about anyones thoughts / experience with BitMinter, and of course, still looking to fix the problems with the other clients mentioned in my first post

Trying to connect to mining.bitcoin.cz pool with MacOS X 10.7.5 client

Have tried using DiabloMiner and RPCminer, but getting what looks like issue connecting to the mining server

DiabloMiner errors :

./DiabloMiner-OSX.sh -u saigo.worker1 -p XXXXXX -l http://stratum.bitcoin.cz -r 3333
[3/20/13 4:53:52 PM] Started                                                          
[3/20/13 4:53:52 PM] Connecting to: http://stratum.bitcoin.cz:3333/                                            
[3/20/13 4:53:53 PM] Using Apple OpenCL 1.1 (Aug 10 2012 19:59:48)                                             
[3/20/13 4:53:54 PM] Added ATI Radeon HD 5670 (#1) (5 CU, local work size of 256)                                        
[3/20/13 4:53:56 PM] ERROR: Cannot connect to stratum.bitcoin.cz: Unexpected end of file from server                               
[3/20/13 4:53:58 PM] ERROR: Cannot connect to stratum.bitcoin.cz: Unexpected end of file from server   

RPCMiner Errors:

Using the same details as above with Diablo, I see  :

Starting RPCminer (CPU)...
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Client will start 4 miner threads
Work will be refreshed every 4000 ms
Could not retrieve work from RPC server.
CURL return value = 52
Could not retrieve work from RPC server.
CURL return value = 52

Any advice / help / pointers as to what i may be doing wrong here, or suggestion of where to download another recommended mining client for Mac that may help me get up and running appreciated