Newbie needs help getting started

[UnilateralPhase]

I started mining 2 days ago with GUI Miner (it says I’m mining at 47 Mhash/s but I don’t seem to be getting any credit for it. My wallet hasn’t received a thing, and all the statistics in my account still say “0”. I’ve double and triple checked the address and the password. Being totally green at this, I don’t know what to do at this point. Can somebody lend some advice please?

[yetisalmon]

Mining at 50 MH/S for the next month, if you are mining 24 hours per day, will yield you 0.001 BTC.
With the current difficulty, mining is not what it used to be.  Use a BTC calculator to see what I mean.....

http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator



-sorry man :/

[UnilateralPhase]

Thanks for the link. Ya, hardly seems worth it. But for right now that's ok until I get my feet wet.

I think I'm one of those miners that experienced people refer to as a casual miner. I'll only be mining while I'm already doing something else on the computer so it's not really costing me anything.

I think I just found out what my problem was. There was an empty space after the worker name. My account statistics are starting to come to life.

[Import]

You better forget mining with a gpu, because the new generation miners with 3000GH/s will cause the difficaulty explode.

If you really want to mine, you have to invest

[xSerendipity]

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/1612/can-i-damage-my-computer-by-mining-bitcoin

You may want to read this before considering mining. Without a significant hash rate, mining may simple do more harm than good.