Newbie - Introduction

[cryptbucket]

Hi All,

I am here after all the buzz about Bitcoin lately.  I am here to learn and gain knowledge.

Crypt

[yguy]

Thanks Crypt!

Hello all,

I've been reading this forum for a few months now, finally decided to open an account once I truly gained a passion for cryptocurrencys. I want to thank you all for the advice and help. This forum has been an amazing learning experience and I gained valuable knowledge.

More specifically I'd like to thank rpietila. You're insight and detailed posts have set the bar for BTC economics discussion and are truly amazing to read.

Thanks,
yguy

[maurya78]

Welcome to the forum

This is a terrific community resource and hopefully you will derive value from it

[GC111]

Hi newbie. 

[nubbins7]

Hi All,

I am here after all the buzz about Bitcoin lately.  I am here to learn and gain knowledge.

Crypt

Welcome to the forum all the best to ya!

[azguard]

Welcome. You will find and see loot on forum.

Just read and still doing it and my motto is

"Every day i learn something NEW"

 

[Burnsy13]

Hello, I have been reading these forums for a while now, finally decided to get serious.  I noticed one post from a Senior member about bitminter and I clicked on the link, registered and went to download their software but I got a message saying that this type of software can harm your computer so I discarded it.  Can anyone tell me if it is ok to use this software and what exactly it will do to my computer?  I wanted to get started somehow, I tried other miner pools like slush and btc but they weren't working.  Then I noticed lately that CPU & GPU mining is dead.  So, I am at an impasse as to how I should proceed.  One thing I did notice on my bitminter dashboard was that the computational power was 312.49 Thps and from what I have read so far, I am led to believe that that is for the total pool.  Is this a correct assumption?  Anyway, if anyone can help I would greatly appreciate it.  I can't wait to go to Vancouver and use the BTC ATM!  

EDIT:  LOL, NOOB alert!  I went back to the the link I saw for Bitminter posted by aficionadog: 

The easiest way is to start with the Bitminter (https://bitminter.com/), easy to install and simple enough to understand. Make sure to download and install the Silabs drivers first: http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/Pages/USBtoUARTBridgeVCPDrivers.aspx

The only problem with the Bitminter is that you have to join and mine with the Bitminter pool.

I then click on the Silabs drivers link and I assume I need to download the driver that's applicable to my operating system, is that correct?  Thanks for anyone's help.

[bitcoinlovesme]

Hello and welcome

[Burnsy13]

Yes $1000 next before end 2013 and then first quarter 2014 will head
towards the $3000 mark because of all the new ASIC industrial miners
coming online then.

Here is a quote from one of the mines coming online in February:

A Hong Kong-based investment company is ramping up an ASIC mining hardware business that will drop four Petahashes (PH/s) of computing power onto the network by the end of March.

Massive Luck Investments, domiciled in Hong Kong but registered in the British Virgin Islands, has taken a 50% stake in Swiss mining hardware manufacturer Bitmine, (formerly Exion Networks), which has been designing Avalon-based mining hardware. The new venture spans ASIC hardware sales to individual customers, hosted mining, and its own private mining pool.

These coins will be mined and suppliers & shareholders will be paid in BTC but then converted to FIAT to pay some bills.
They would need to exchange it somewhere for FIAT and then cash out. Going to be an awesome time 2014 for BTC!

Freakin' Awesome!   

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[zuludrag]

Hello

 I'm a programmer. Electonic coins is prety new thing for me, but I'm very interested in it now Hope I'll get help from other developers here and maybe I could help others with my knoledge

 And greetings from Lithuania!

[Ivan45_46]

Hi everyone
I'm Ivan from Moscow, eager to learn from you bitcoin professionals and to ask questions
I'm mostly interested in local russian btc minig pools and trading on exchanges like btc-e.
Also looking forward to gain experience in other types of new currencies.
Well, that's it, have a nice day

[cal_varnsen]

Hello,

I am new here and hope this forum will be a good start for me to begin with BTC and mining.
Since a few months I am observing BTC and am impressed about the lately peaks.

Sometimes I imagine what could have been if I had started buying BTCs few month ago or had started mining at the time I began be interested in that thing...but I hope it wont be too late to start with it now.



Cheers

[dandouna]

Hello everyone

[Sindelar1938]

welcome to the forum

hope you get what you are looking for