Author Topic: Bitcoin _ Online Currency of some sort? (Read 25548 times)

Valen · June 08, 2011, 02:05:33 AM

http://www.weusecoins.com/

Someone please explain to me how to bitcoin mine.

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Lugnut · June 08, 2011, 02:06:49 AM

I made a topic on this.

Rather, bitcoins, not mining them.

otto-san · June 08, 2011, 02:08:21 AM

It sounds to me like Bitcoin Miner is a fun game where you actually play mining minigames and get bitcoins.

Valen · June 08, 2011, 03:11:34 AM

I am confused

Valen · June 08, 2011, 03:55:04 AM

Alright just got it set up I think.

http://mining.bitcoin.cz/

Kira100000 · June 08, 2011, 04:13:59 AM

set one up too

seem interesting

Valen · June 08, 2011, 04:23:23 AM

77,000 blocks so far. I'm only using my cpu right now though still have to figure out how to use my ati card instead.

Kira100000 · June 08, 2011, 04:27:10 AM

19,000 blocks :I

Valen · June 08, 2011, 04:31:08 AM

Are you doing pooled mining? earlier it was using 97% of my cpu lol

SeventhSandwich · June 08, 2011, 05:09:18 AM

bitcoins are mined using your GPU to solve complex algorithms to make chunks in groups of 50.

BUT: if this picks off, us early investors will be billi-coin-airs.

So do it for fun and buy stuff.

SeventhSandwich · June 08, 2011, 05:58:48 AM

At the bottom of by bitcoin client, it has a counter saying blocks.

does this mean I'm mining? If so, forget yeah c:

Otis Da HousKat · June 08, 2011, 05:59:10 AM

Don't even bother using a CPU to do this. It's not worth the cost in electricity.

I made about 3 bit coins yesterday. u jelly?

SeventhSandwich · June 08, 2011, 06:00:45 AM

Quote from: Otis Da HousKat on June 08, 2011, 05:59:10 AM

Don't even bother using a CPU to do this. It's not worth the cost in electricity.

I made about 3 bit coins yesterday. u jelly?

answer my question please :c

Otis Da HousKat · June 08, 2011, 06:03:09 AM

Quote from: SeventhSandwich on June 08, 2011, 06:00:45 AM

answer my question please :c

Hell if I know. What client are you using and do you belong to a mining guild? If you're seeing numbers processed then it is working.

Also, remember while doing this that your video card is running at full power 100%. It's going to be generating a lot of heat and using a lot of power. I have to have an air conditioner and fan blowing on my computer constantly to keep it idling at a "cool" 72°C.

SeventhSandwich · June 08, 2011, 06:08:44 AM

Quote from: Otis Da HousKat on June 08, 2011, 06:03:09 AM

Hell if I know. What client are you using and do you belong to a mining guild? If you're seeing numbers processed then it is working.

Also, remember while doing this that your video card is running at full power 100%. It's going to be generating a lot of heat and using a lot of power. I have to have an air conditioner and fan blowing on my computer constantly to keep it idling at a "cool" 72°C.

I'm just using the regular bitcoin client and it's only showing these tiny blocks at the bottom which I don't know what they do.

I tried using DiabloGPU but I set the IP as my regular IP and the port as 80 (well, just common sense. Hope it's right) and it gave me connection refused errors until finally it showed a hashcount and my computer nearly crashed and my gpu diode's temperature skyrocketted to 73º. I'm assuming that means it wasn't working correctly.

I read somewhere that I needed something like bitcoin -server or bitcoind but the instructions were written by linux experts taking about stuff like rebuilding a kernel and editting config files which I don't know a damn stuff about.

I have a feeling part of the difficulty is because I'm trying to do this on a mac.