Hello and good day!

[xaiduz114]

My name is xaiduz (Silly history on how I chose that as my username.) and hopefully I'm gonna hang around a long time here. I've read some posts and learned a bit already, and the moderators I've seen are very informative and specific, with clear posts that are easy to read and comprehend. I like that.

I'm here to try and learn a better way of getting bitcoin in my "wallet" as a stay-at-home mom of two, soon-to-be three. As of now, I've found some faucets and PTC's, and have started a webs.com address (no traffic yet, but it's not finished completely) showcasing some I like linked with my reference IDs, and at the current BTC rate in the market, I'm showing $0.99 deposited from some of the sites. I don't prefer to sit and click, and don't really have a lot of time to, but I can't really mine with my computer. I'm trying to save up the $700-ish for my next computer, getting piece by piece at a time. My current home-built is becoming too old and slow. It's from 2007. LOL. Once I do have all my parts in, I'm going to be mining, let me tell you! I still have to research more on that, but I've got a few months before I have all the parts for my new machine.

Anyways, if anyone has suggestions on building up my bitcoins, or how to increase what I have already WITHOUT gambling, or can inform me on some way to mine steadily without just one block a year, please feel free to post on this topic or message me on here. By the by, I won't just click anything, so if you're going to scam me/rip me off, don't even send anything or reply. I'll just end up flagging it/reporting you. I'm not going to buy anything like some fancy "paypal booster" or what have you.

I'm definitely going to do more looking around on the site to see what else I can uncover. There sure is a lot to sift through.

TL;DR: I'm a house-wife/mother trying to earn bitcoins without doing anything illegal or getting ripped off, without having to sit at the computer to CLICKCLICKCLICK. If you think you can help, or would like to give me some advice, reply or message me. Off to research for now. Tata!

Sincerely, Xaiduz

[roslinpl]

Hello!

Welcome to the forums.
If you want t earn some BTC by doing specific tasks:

Section #Services

And you should check it every day for new offers!

Same here.


These are best places IMO to find a way to earn some BTC.

And your sig:

Should I post my receiving address here...?

It all depends on you. I didn't count it yet but my guess - ~70% of forum members have their BTC addresses in their Sig.
It is all up to you. Just make a choice.

[Rulishix]

Welcome to the forum and as a start use faucets and dice sites to try and build up a decent amount of btc then invest in reputable cryptos such as litecoin and wait.

[Yuki1988]

TL;DR: I'm a house-wife/mother trying to earn bitcoins without doing anything illegal or getting ripped off, without having to sit at the computer to CLICKCLICKCLICK.

If you have some skills (e.g. translation) to sell, you can make a thread in the service section.
After you get more activity points, and become a member (60+ activity), you could join a signature ad campaign.

[Acidyo]

Many chinese names appearing lately, welcome to the boards.

[Inkvor]

Well i don think thats a chinese name , are you racist ?

[xaiduz114]

roslinpl: Thanks for the info! I started noticing more bitcoin addresses the more I searched around, haha. Also, I don't know the unicode for that specific bitcoin symbol, I couldn't find it for some reason yesterday. :/ How did you get it?

Rulishix: Already started on faucets... I'm not familiar with dice sites, I might look into that. I've also been researching pooling, I've been updating the bitcoin core on my EHD since 2:30pm yesterday, and it's 8:25am at the moment with 34 weeks behind... 252,354 est. blocks of 296,162 so far... not too bad I guess. :/ But who knows how much longer the more recent weeks will take?

Yuki1988: Maybe I should brush up on my German... REALLY brush up. It's been about 5 years since I spoke it regularly. What kind of signature ad campaign are you talking about? Activists of some kind or just a basic group of like-minded individuals? Forgive me if I seem unintelligent. I'm just trying to make sure I get the right info in my head. My assumptions could be completely wrong, lol.

Acidyo/Inkvor: I'm not Chinese, and it's not a Chinese name... lol I can see why it might seem like it, but it's just a handle. Maybe when I get more comfortable and more active on the board and get to know more people, I'll let my real name be known!

Thanks for the input, guys! I'm already on my way to gaining more info with what you have all led me to research.

[bitgeek]

Hey, it's nice that more women are interested in bitcoin It's been a geeky man domain for many years.

[sanjoea]

Welcome to the forums

[Yuki1988]

Yuki1988: ... What kind of signature ad campaign are you talking about? Activists of some kind or just a basic group of like-minded individuals?

Simply put, you can put advertisement of other sites (such as casinos or ASIC manufacturers) in your signature space, and get paid.

You can have an overview of the existing signature ad campaign here. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=333916.0
You can find a few more campaign in the service forum. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=52.0

[xaiduz114]

bitgeek: Hopefully there will be more!

sanjoea: Thanks!

Yuki1988: I see, like basically advertising for them. Gotcha! I'll check that out. Thank you.

Hopefully I'll be able to contribute some once I get the hang of things around here. We'll see, I suppose.

[Yuki1988]

Yuki1988: I see, like basically advertising for them. Gotcha! I'll check that out. Thank you.

You are welcome.

As I said earlier, you need to be at member status (60+ activity) for most of the campaign.
So you can take your time and check the campaign one by one. 

[xaiduz114]

Just realized that there is a button for inserting the bitcoin symbol in the forum text... Wish I would have caught that sooner. :/

I noticed how newbies aren't allowed to do very much, but I have some investigating to do in mining, now. I got my bitcoin-qt synced up to 17 weeks behind after a little under 24 hours, and have about 20k blocks left (approx.) to sync. My machine may very well be good enough to at least mine in a pool. I'm glad I built my own rather than buying one stock back in the day. HA! Who says a woman can't create a good machine?

[blacksails]

Just realized that there is a button for inserting the bitcoin symbol in the forum text... Wish I would have caught that sooner. :/

I noticed how newbies aren't allowed to do very much, but I have some investigating to do in mining, now. I got my bitcoin-qt synced up to 17 weeks behind after a little under 24 hours, and have about 20k blocks left (approx.) to sync. My machine may very well be good enough to at least mine in a pool. I'm glad I built my own rather than buying one stock back in the day. HA! Who says a woman can't create a good machine?

Yeah, about the mining part; Don't bother trying. At least not bitcoin. Unless you have an ASIC or something you'll just end up damaging your computer.
If your graphics card is good though, you could try your luck with some alt-coin. Remember to keep it cool though, if not it might break faster.

Btw, Newbies are allowed to do very much. Not many signature things though, and you have to wait 360 seconds between your posts.

[xaiduz114]

Just realized that there is a button for inserting the bitcoin symbol in the forum text... Wish I would have caught that sooner. :/

I noticed how newbies aren't allowed to do very much, but I have some investigating to do in mining, now. I got my bitcoin-qt synced up to 17 weeks behind after a little under 24 hours, and have about 20k blocks left (approx.) to sync. My machine may very well be good enough to at least mine in a pool. I'm glad I built my own rather than buying one stock back in the day. HA! Who says a woman can't create a good machine?

Yeah, about the mining part; Don't bother trying. At least not bitcoin. Unless you have an ASIC or something you'll just end up damaging your computer.
If your graphics card is good though, you could try your luck with some alt-coin. Remember to keep it cool though, if not it might break faster.

Btw, Newbies are allowed to do very much. Not many signature things though, and you have to wait 360 seconds between your posts.

Guess I will need to wait until I get all my parts and build my new computer. :/ Unfortunate. Is it worth it to keep syncing the network to my EHD or should I just give up and wait? Could I move the entire client to another drive later on or would there be repercussions?

[blacksails]

Just realized that there is a button for inserting the bitcoin symbol in the forum text... Wish I would have caught that sooner. :/

I noticed how newbies aren't allowed to do very much, but I have some investigating to do in mining, now. I got my bitcoin-qt synced up to 17 weeks behind after a little under 24 hours, and have about 20k blocks left (approx.) to sync. My machine may very well be good enough to at least mine in a pool. I'm glad I built my own rather than buying one stock back in the day. HA! Who says a woman can't create a good machine?

Yeah, about the mining part; Don't bother trying. At least not bitcoin. Unless you have an ASIC or something you'll just end up damaging your computer.
If your graphics card is good though, you could try your luck with some alt-coin. Remember to keep it cool though, if not it might break faster.

Btw, Newbies are allowed to do very much. Not many signature things though, and you have to wait 360 seconds between your posts.

Guess I will need to wait until I get all my parts and build my new computer. :/ Unfortunate. Is it worth it to keep syncing the network to my EHD or should I just give up and wait? Could I move the entire client to another drive later on or would there be repercussions?

I don't know what this "EHD" is? But I guess you're referring to your client, right? Well, you don't have to sync with the network right now if you don't want to, but if you don't do it now you'll have to do it some other time. Where you store the client doesn't matter, since the important parts like the blockchain and your wallet is stored in another place. But I can't see any reasons to why you would wanna move the client?
My suggestion to you would to install some lightweight client like MultiBit. Then you wouldn't need to download the blockchain. You can then import your private keys into MultiBit to keep all the money you have in your current wallet.

[xaiduz114]

Guess I will need to wait until I get all my parts and build my new computer. :/ Unfortunate. Is it worth it to keep syncing the network to my EHD or should I just give up and wait? Could I move the entire client to another drive later on or would there be repercussions?

I don't know what this "EHD" is? But I guess you're referring to your client, right? Well, you don't have to sync with the network right now if you don't want to, but if you don't do it now you'll have to do it some other time. Where you store the client doesn't matter, since the important parts like the blockchain and your wallet is stored in another place. But I can't see any reasons to why you would wanna move the client?
My suggestion to you would to install some lightweight client like MultiBit. Then you wouldn't need to download the blockchain. You can then import your private keys into MultiBit to keep all the money you have in your current wallet.

EHD: External hard drive. Sorry for not defining that. I have multibit, it's what I started off with doing faucets and PTCs. I like it, but I was hoping to try my hand with mining directly, not earning a penny here or there... I have about $1.09 worth in BTC right now, or roughly BTC0.002.

I guess I'll let the syncing continue since I can sync overnight easily and just sync daily or weekly so all I would need to do is download the client onto the new computer when I have everything built and set-up. I have the memory for it lol.

[blacksails]

Guess I will need to wait until I get all my parts and build my new computer. :/ Unfortunate. Is it worth it to keep syncing the network to my EHD or should I just give up and wait? Could I move the entire client to another drive later on or would there be repercussions?

I don't know what this "EHD" is? But I guess you're referring to your client, right? Well, you don't have to sync with the network right now if you don't want to, but if you don't do it now you'll have to do it some other time. Where you store the client doesn't matter, since the important parts like the blockchain and your wallet is stored in another place. But I can't see any reasons to why you would wanna move the client?
My suggestion to you would to install some lightweight client like MultiBit. Then you wouldn't need to download the blockchain. You can then import your private keys into MultiBit to keep all the money you have in your current wallet.

EHD: External hard drive. Sorry for not defining that. I have multibit, it's what I started off with doing faucets and PTCs. I like it, but I was hoping to try my hand with mining directly, not earning a penny here or there... I have about $1.09 worth in BTC right now, or roughly BTC0.002.

I guess I'll let the syncing continue since I can sync overnight easily and just sync daily or weekly so all I would need to do is download the client onto the new computer when I have everything built and set-up. I have the memory for it lol.

But MultiBit doesn't need syncing in the way you describe it? To me it sounds like you have Bitcoin Core!
And you don't mine directly to multibit either. You mine using a pool, solo mining is just a waste of time.

[xaiduz114]

EHD: External hard drive. Sorry for not defining that. I have multibit, it's what I started off with doing faucets and PTCs. I like it, but I was hoping to try my hand with mining directly, not earning a penny here or there... I have about $1.09 worth in BTC right now, or roughly BTC0.002.

I guess I'll let the syncing continue since I can sync overnight easily and just sync daily or weekly so all I would need to do is download the client onto the new computer when I have everything built and set-up. I have the memory for it lol.

But MultiBit doesn't need syncing in the way you describe it? To me it sounds like you have Bitcoin Core!
And you don't mine directly to multibit either. You mine using a pool, solo mining is just a waste of time.

WHOA WHOA WHOA. Ok I must be missing something substantial here. I have both clients. I started with Multibit because I thought that Bitcoin Core would take too long. So I created several addresses for the different faucet and PTC sites that I frequent. Is it possible to mine a pool with JUST Multibit? If so, HOW? I know they keep the heavy stuff off your computer by having servers running to connect to the lightweight client, but I thought it was just a connection, or storage for my BTC in the addresses. Please explain to me what I'm missing, or direct me to where I can find better info on it, because I have obviously missed something huge, or something is routinely not mentioned in what I've read about. I'm still trying to understand pools and the whole mining in the cloud thing, so any references are seriously going to help on that as well. I don't want to mess up anything and lose my efforts or BTC because I failed to understand everything correctly!

I am still syncing Bitcoin Core, since I have the memory on my external hard drive for it, and my computer's handling that just fine. A bit slow, but I don't think I'll do any harm on it. I'm at about 283,000 blocks, 11 weeks behind, and it seems to be going pretty steadily with little hiccups here and there, about every 1000 blocks or something like that.

[blacksails]

EHD: External hard drive. Sorry for not defining that. I have multibit, it's what I started off with doing faucets and PTCs. I like it, but I was hoping to try my hand with mining directly, not earning a penny here or there... I have about $1.09 worth in BTC right now, or roughly BTC0.002.

I guess I'll let the syncing continue since I can sync overnight easily and just sync daily or weekly so all I would need to do is download the client onto the new computer when I have everything built and set-up. I have the memory for it lol.

But MultiBit doesn't need syncing in the way you describe it? To me it sounds like you have Bitcoin Core!
And you don't mine directly to multibit either. You mine using a pool, solo mining is just a waste of time.

WHOA WHOA WHOA. Ok I must be missing something substantial here. I have both clients. I started with Multibit because I thought that Bitcoin Core would take too long. So I created several addresses for the different faucet and PTC sites that I frequent. Is it possible to mine a pool with JUST Multibit? If so, HOW? I know they keep the heavy stuff off your computer by having servers running to connect to the lightweight client, but I thought it was just a connection, or storage for my BTC in the addresses. Please explain to me what I'm missing, or direct me to where I can find better info on it, because I have obviously missed something huge, or something is routinely not mentioned in what I've read about. I'm still trying to understand pools and the whole mining in the cloud thing, so any references are seriously going to help on that as well. I don't want to mess up anything and lose my efforts or BTC because I failed to understand everything correctly!

I am still syncing Bitcoin Core, since I have the memory on my external hard drive for it, and my computer's handling that just fine. A bit slow, but I don't think I'll do any harm on it. I'm at about 283,000 blocks, 11 weeks behind, and it seems to be going pretty steadily with little hiccups here and there, about every 1000 blocks or something like that.

No, I think you misunderstand, you cannot mine with Multibit, you need separate software for that, however I highly recommend you don't mine bitcoins on your computer. Multibit only keeps your private keys (aka your wallet).
I can explain some mining concepts for you here:
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Cloud Mining - You buy Gh/s (mining power) from another company that owns a lot of mining hardware. They mine for you, and you get the money essentially. The Gh/s:es is also traded between the customers, which means you could end up selling your Gh/s for less than you bought it for.
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Pool Mining - You connect your mining device (Computer, ASIC, Phone) to mine together with many more people that does the same thing. The Pool gives you a specific task, and you get paid for each of these tasks you solve (if the pool solves the block first of course). Don't do this unless you have an ASIC.
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Solo mining - You let your mining device mine alone. It will try to solve the block itself. Don't go for this no matter what.
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You could also mine Scrypt based coins, and in that case you could go for pool mining if you have a good GPU. You can then exchange the coins earned for BTC.

There's no need to use both MultiBit and Bitcoin Core, neither it is to have many separate addresses to get some dust from faucets.