I am a newbie with bitcoin please help

[LiveforYahweh]

Can you explain what my System statistics mean. Is my system up to par and will I be able to collect coins shortly? Sorry for the silly questions but I must learn.

thank you


System statistics

Current round started at:   2011-06-23 17:11:08 UTC
Current round duration:   0:02:50
Current shares CDF:   8.07 %
Current Bitcoin block#:   132846
Current server load (60 sec average):   2949 getwork/s
Total score of current round:   99910.8122
Shares contributed in current round:   73851
Approx. cluster performance (30 min average):    1963.082 Ghash/s

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[lolcat]

As soon as you solve a block you'll get paid!
May I ask what pool you're mining on?

[LiveforYahweh]

I am not sure what you mean by what pool? About my statistics, are they good? How much blocks do you need to solve it?

Thank you

[Jimerson]

A good place to start understanding mining would be this thread:

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=9430.0

Make sure you understand the concepts of bitcoin before you try to understand mining.

Good Luck!

[beezm]

Pretty much the same thing I first did ^ 

Started everything up, waited for coins, nothing -_-

Then I figured out pools

[lolcat]

A "pool" is a bunch of people working together to solve blocks (exponentially faster than solo mining)

Here is a step-by-step guide with pictures and everything else needed to get you started when you're ready.
http://bitclockers.com/forums/index.php?topic=3.0

www.Bitclockers.com <-- The pool homepage.

Hope to see you mine with us