Introduce yourself :)

[Hypert]

I just found out about Bitcoins just over a week ago and I am starting to see how big this is going to become.

[irb]

Post Number Two, wherein I introduce myself as someone with a skepticism for central banking and an interest in a gold/silver standard currency. A bitcoin user for all of 24 hours.

[Tminus]

Hello all! I'm Tminus, running rig on 5850 card so far.

[roarkk]

Hi all!  Roarkk here, UNIX sysadmin, virtualization admin, storage admin.  Running a couple of small mining rigs at ~1.5Ghash/s, Quietly working out a method of minimizing DDOS's for pools large and small using a combination of VPS / cloud resources.

-R

[croaker]

I have been running a bitcoin client for nearly a year now and sadly I've generated no bitcoins   So I figured its time to get in on the market by simply buying my way in and seeing where it goes from there!  My computer has an i7 920 overclocked to 3.6 GHz, so perhaps I was doing something wrong with the bit torrent client?  I tried to get in on the CUDA action with my Radeon 5870 but I never got everything running properly.

[beginningbitcoin]

What markets accept PayPal?

[hessenpepper]

Hi all.  I just discovered Bitcoin over the weekend when I read the Dailytech article.  Incredibly clever.

[helo]

I understand that you administrators want to protect your 50K+ BTC pots, but restricting newcomers from expressing themselves on the main threads is a weird approach. There are 10x to 1000x more of us than there are of you, and we are the ones paying for your profits. Why are you doing this? I have been visiting this board for well over a month and I still only have 2 hours on my log. A new board is in order I think. Suggestions?

[StoneHead]

Hi
Another happy bitcoin user here, from Norway

[RighteousIslander]

Hey everybody, I'm a student, I am actually in class right now. woop woop

[cointrepreneur]

I'm Debian user from 8 years.

I'm a crytograph-freak. I've programed SKS, a command line cryto-app, based on elliptic curves, as drop-in of GPG/PGP with simplicity as main concern.

When I started hear about bitcoin, it quickly drew my attention. Thus, here I am :-)

Those are awesome hobbies. I hope to learn about exactly those things. I'm glad more people like you are learning about bitcoins.

[kresh]

New here, still reading up on Bitcoin in general

[spartacus7]

Hello, I am Spartacus. I'm working on an Android client. It's part-native ARM compiled, part Java. Full blockchain and peering. I want a UI that non-technical users can be comfortable with using and trusting. Minimal *physical* and *mental* transaction cost is important.

In my opinion, Mt Gox has been great to get Bitcoin where it is today but I fear it can become a risky single point of failure. I'd like see more localized and physically distributed transactions for money changing. Resilient economies for resilient communities. Which is why I feel like a mobile client is so important.

I'd be glad to talk about features and such with prospective users, also probably have technical questions on the way, but mostly I'll just be hacking away silently.

Cheerios,
Spartacus

Working toward the day when this string buys me a frosty pint --> 1PBwzCphU6meNkDGAYmQ1c46ySQKhpmtUv

[cointrepreneur]

I don't know if I can come up with 50 quality posts here just to punch my way out of this wet paper sandbox. I'd be glad to talk about features and such with prospective users, also probably have technical questions on the way, but mostly I'll just be hacking away silently.

I am Spartacus.

Also, you don't need 50, only about 5 and about 4 hours (or something like that). I also like the sound of what you are working on and share your concerns as well as your hopes. You seem like a talented person and I would love to hear your ideas and any updates on your progress.

[spartacus7]

Ah, I edited that bit about the 50 posts out after I read more on it elsewhere, didn't want to be a griper. *sheepish grin*

[rokj]

Hi from Slovenia!

[zurzon]

I'm zurzon. Hello, everybody!

[mandros]

I'm glad this is growing so fast, it will be a nice ride up to the top.

Let's make this coin an Internet standard an beyond.

[Hundsstern]

Hi,

my name is Hundsstern.

I love Bitcoins.

I`ve discovered Bitcoins two weeks ago through the news. Too bad it wasn't earlier. But at least I catched the BC-Train before it got too far away.

I've started mining with my Intel E8500 and a GTX260 but soon I realized that this is nonsense.
So i bought myself a Radeon EAH5870 at Amazon shipped via UPS.

At first I got 300 mhash/s with guiminer at eligius. I was not content with eligius and so i switched to deepbit.
I've improved my hashrate from 300 mh/s to 360 mh/s when i've started using poclbm . And i got another 40 mh/s when i've added "-v -w 128".

Because of the constantly recurring problems on deepbit i've tried bitcoin.lc but they still don't update their statistics. But they are able to update their thread-title in the forum when they reach a bigger Pool-Hashrate.

I'm back at deepbit now and i'm content for the moment.

I'm concerned about the next difficulty increase and if i have enough money to buy new equipment for mining at an acceptable level.

I've planned to post in the german forum mainly and i hate all the trolls for being the reason why i'm posting here.

[Dickmoney]

Salutations,
I am an Australian resident who lives on-site at a dedicated facility at a local private hospital where I am treated for an especially malicious and ultimately fatal form of bowel cancer. In the mean-time, I enjoy pursuing manageable but rewarding goals such as my current Bitcoin endeavor of reaching 60US dollars using nothing but BTC.
So far, mining with a single 5770 intermittently over the last 48 hours has netted me the peasant sum of 0.06 BTC, but when I turn this into 1.0BTC I plan to pursue investments (of some sort, I'm still very much clueless) that will allow me to make progress on my path to 60 US dollars.
If any other newbies have success stories with their first BTC endeavors, please feel free the share.