Best way to get bitcoins?

[asherp]

If you're going to start mining, make sure you understand the cost of the electricity you'll be using and the equipment you'll be buying. You could easily end up losing more than you would if you had just bought bitcoins directly.

[comlink]

I would like to hear this too.

[kingcoin]

it too late to mine for coin right now,

Why is it too late?

[Ivica]

it too late to mine for coin right now,

Why is it too late?

It is late to mine bitcoins, unless your electricity fee is "free of charge", but one may try litecoin mining and exchanging it for bitcoins. http://dustcoin.com/mining

[xephireusMMX]

it too late to mine for coin right now,

Why is it too late?

It is late to mine bitcoins, unless your electricity fee is "free of charge", but one may try litecoin mining and exchanging it for bitcoins. http://dustcoin.com/mining

You also have to consider reduced living of your GPU when mining. Even with "free" electricity i will stop mining soon after difficulty climbs a bit more, not worth the risk of buying new GPU due to malfunction ...

[BitHits]

Use www.BitHits.info to get free BTC Not the best or the fastest way, but a way nonetheless.

[bkk2090]

Unless you have a LOT of GPUs running mining is usually actually costing you more than you are making, and those free bitcoin things would take like a year to get enough to buy anything at all.

[kingcoin]

So it's not too late if you have access to computing resources (GPU/FPGA/ASIC) + electricity which is less than the BTC mining rate...

[Gator-hex]

At current bitcoin prices $40-50 you can still cover your electricity bill with graphics cards but this may not last much longer.

Use http://www.bitcoinx.com/profit/ to predict your costs and profit.

Ati 5830 cards are probably the cheapest they mine as fast as my 7850s (but use a bit more electricity)

[RTaki]

Just buy them..

[screamingservers]

Pooled mining works with spare resources. I have a 6990 (about $400 on ebay) running phoenix 2 on win 7 with aggression at 3 and barely notice it running all day while I am at work. My fan is at 30percent right now and I am getting about .07bc/day. Currently that is about $3/day . I just cashed in my btc from the last year for about $700. Although most were earned while difficulty were lower, this was only a part time rig.

What do you think the best way to get bitcoins is?

Is it mining solo for a year or joining a pool?

Or is it doing random surveys that steal your info?

EDIT: Without using any money generated not by bitcoins

[xisnotx]

Second wave...i'd say. No way to compete against miners.