How much consume bitcoins if from your internet?

[jan123]

Hey

I'm a newbie and I have a few questions.

How much consume bitcoins if from your internet?
Can somene explain what a mining rig is and what is does? please explean it very easy.
And where can I see of the difficulty factor increase or decrease?
And what is a pool slush?
thnx

[Bitfox]

You can see difficulty factor increase/decrease
at http://blockexplorer.com/q


A mining rig is a computer dedicated to mining, containing one or more video cards preferably with Radeon GPU ( HD 5850, HD 5870, HD5970, HD 6950, HD 6970, HD 6990)
You cand read more at http://wiki.bitcoin.it under mining

I have a mining rig with 2 5870's and it makes me 1/2 bitcoin every day but it made more when the difficulty was lower.

Slush pool is here: http://mining.bitcoin.cz

Good luck!

[Gabi]

The bitcoin client will download the blockchain (and it's like 400MB) and then just keep relaying blocks to other clients and receive new blocks (it's p2p!)

You do not need the bitcoin client to mine if you mine in a pool.

A "mining rig" is a computer that mine. Read the wiki for more info

"Slush's pool" is a mining pool.

[shata]

Basically If you dont have ATi card dont even bother, and to make it worth it you really need to work on getting 1ghash/s which is gona be pretty decent investment of money to start out with.

[jan123]

And is the difficult ratio now normal?

[Gabi]

Uh? Read the wiki to learn what difficulty is

[shata]

And is the difficult ratio now normal?

Difficulty goes up the more people start mining, It will only get worse basically.

The more people, The more crazy hardware you need.

For example last week I was doing .5 coins a day...Difficulty went up couple days ago now i get .32 a day. Vicious cycle