So I want to try my hand at mining.

[icanscript]

I have a few questions if anyone would be kind enough to help me.

Please bare in mind I only have 1 x R9 290X, I am not doing this for money but more fun and experience.

So with all the shitcoins around.... I want a coin that will last, Any ideas where I should start?

Ideally I would like a PoW/PoS still in PoW phase. Anyone know of such a coin?

Thanks for any help.

[Viper1]

If you're not doing it for the money, then whether it lasts or not shouldn't really matter should it? lol

You could play around with spreadcoin for a bit at least. When it first came out you could only mine it with a computer which was fun to do, first and only coin I've mined to date. Now you can use some version of cgminer and your GPU to get some. The original dev has left but there's new guys working on it and it's lasted for several months now. Given it's a coin that barely anyone knows about, I'm really surprised at it's price and volume on bittrex. Was a long time before the coin even got on any exchanges.

[DecentralizeEconomics]

You could mine NXT on Xpool.ca.

[spartak_t]

The answer is pretty simple - FAILCoin. You can currently mine it even with CPU. Keep in mind that I'm not promoting it, but FAIL meets all of your requirements.

[cdog1213]

I like Ambercoin because you are mining shares in a company that pays dividends if you have 10,000. I have rented hashing power to mine it before with great success.