Hallo to bitcointalk

[fabtho]

I want just to say Hallo and introdruce myself:

I mined some bitcoin back in 2011.  Now I am more intrested in altcoins.

I compield betacoind an my linux box, because there binary waw not running. Now I mine some betacoin.

One reason I am here is, to be totaly honest, that I want to get some betacoin giveaway. Because mining on CPU only is a quite useless.

fabtho

[Jacce]

Hello and welcome! You should read https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=177133.0 if you haven't already, so you understand more how the forums work.

[pönde]

There are plenty of threads on this site, so I do not want start a new one.

Newbie on this site, but not newbie with the bitcoin. I am happy owner of many coins. Also I understand the things like bitcoin-address private-key, paper wallet, online wallet, wallet applications, difficulty factor, decentralized network and such.

Still one basic thing is not clear for me.

Mining is there for creating the new bitcoins until all are created. Mining is also there for maintaining the bitcoin-network by managing the transactions and adding them to the blockchain. So I was wondering  both the creation of new coins and the maintenance of the bitcoin-network is done by the same software.

But it looks like they are two separate softwares?

Here is available original bitcoin source code. Can you give me link for a brand new one?
http://www.bitcointrading.com/forum/bitcoin-clients/original-bitcoin-source-code-archives/

And here is avalable bitcoin mining software.
https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer
https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer

So the miner and bitcoin-source code are two different softwares? I know the low profit of mining, so I hardly start mining right now, I am just interested of relation between maintenance and mining.