Any South African miners/BTC enthusiasts?

[nicja]

Just curious to hear about the experiences of other South Africans, in terms of mining BTC, or trying to buy.

How did you go about it, would you consider it a successful endevour and was it at all fun?

[Chi11ed]

Hello, yes there are quite a few.
Some of the guys are producing decent 5/6ghash's setups. I know of a few that have ASICS etc. Its def happening to a degree.

Im just running my 6990 at 700mhz giving me about 750mhahs but being nice and quiet while doing it.

Oh and i dont pay for electricity  

Before the big drop $0.1 per BTC, i was running a setup with 2x5970's and a ASUS Ares and was getting about 2Ghash. Then i was earning about 5 BTC daily. Then the crash and sold everything... How i wish i had had some foresight and kept mining 

Also working on a few bitcoin projects. I have Safe Wallet that is available here somewhere (source code included) but am in progress with a few friends starting a much much bigger project.

Hope it works out  

[zed_man]

Yeah indeed South Africa has lots of btc mining going on. I myself also have mined all through last year not so much now as I do pay for electricity lol.

[nicja]

Thanks for the feedback guys, it's interesting to hear!

Has anyone had any success buying or selling BTC? If so what platforms did you use and were there a lot of hoops to jump through, in terms of transferring funds in to buy, or getting cash out when selling?