Just Born yesterday

[gunz]

  Please don't blast me... i am new to the whole mining thing, I started yesterday with a very simple rig and i jumped on the 50btc pool. After reading some of the posts and seeing that the site is now unavailable, and seeing that people are not getting their shares. Are their any recommended pools to start with? I also setup with coinbase which i am seeing on here as not so reputable. Any help is appreciated just looking for a little direction. thanks

[Kluge]

ozco.in guy's awesome (but they have low amount of hashpower). Eligius and BitMinter are decent, too. BTCGuild is good, but worryingly large. Eclipse seems to prune old accounts and pocket the coins - probably ought to stay away.

Coinbase is okay (everyone around for more than a year has at least one horror story about an exchange which's screwed them). I've heard good things about them from new people. Relative to other exchanges, they're reasonably reputable. You should never keep all your coins on an exchange, though (unless it's an amount you don't mind losing)...

[gunz]

I really appreciate the info. That helps alot.

[gunz]

Awesome. thanks