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Get a job.

after reading the op's post i decided to give in and finally try it.
he sorta demystified it a bit.
mining litecoin on 1 pc with cuda miner.
and mining alphacoins on another with cg miner.
they are already always on, so i figured why not.
i will check my profits in a week, lol.

For anyone who doesn't have to pay for electricity, this is an excellent idea.

I'd suggest reading up on how to properly configure cgminer so your GPU doesn't overheat, and to not even try if you don't have an AMD card.

is bitcoin mining legal?

that's not free

Humble Bundles are dirt cheap. I'd happily pay double the price if it saves me from reading all those steps.

Or...just use the card. If you're too young to have one, ask your parents to let you use one.

I am confused to all this Bitmining stuff, I am running a Asus GTX 680 4gb. Is this suitable for mining or should I not? and what's the earnings like? Can I really earn more than the cost of my electricity? My psu is a Seasonic 850W 80 Plus Gold.

I'd really like to learn more about this, even if it's not for me I'd really appreciate someone that know a lot about this stuff explain more, seems fascinating.

all this for about 1$ or 6$ to spend on HIB?

that cost you more in elecrticity than anything else

for those who are so concerned about electricity(IDK how the rates are outside of the free times which might make this cost more money.. unless ofc you run ridiculous mining rigs)) is to use TXU's free nights/weekends(one or the other)(I can't do this since half + of my time is nights and can't be having my GPU sitting there mining

If you on slow CPU,It's gonna takes month or even years to get that shitty bitcoin.

.. I've get curious and got some reading about this bitcoing thing, now I know I'm maybe risking sound stupid here but... what I din't get at all is, from where comes the cash?
For what I've understant you get the bitcoing from "nothing", just mine them from the calc blocks and stuff, and people buy these bitcoing. But still why would someone buy a virtual coin that is just being generated all the time from nothing and apart of being selld it's not usefull for anything else? ..

And while I kinda understand that the thing about currenncy is to buy cheap and sell for more, I can't see the diference from if I just say "I have this currency called Dravemoney do you want to buy 100 Dravemoneys for 1 dollar?"

Can anyone please explain me what's this GPU mining? I tried googling it, but all I got are sites with prices 'n stuff.

I'm glad to read a few people checked the facts for themselves and realized it's doable and profitable. The window of opportunity to mine profitably is slowly closing as FPGA SCRYPT miners will enter the market in a few months from now.
If you want to try and skip the transfer from litecoin to bitcoin, why not write to the humble bundle support to request checkout with litecoin? I'm sure if enough people will write to them they will add support.

Also, there are websites that will sell you steam games for bitcoin. I have no idea if they are trustworthy and I would strongly suggest reading reviews about them before using them, as bitcoin transactions are non refundable and you have absolutely no buyer's protection. Your only protection is the site's reputation. I am also in no way affiliated with any such site.

I personally mine LTC off give-me-coins and get around 7USD with my old 7850, and around 14USD with my 7970 (that's an average 21USD PER DAY), it pays off considering the very low electricity prices and 0% fee on the pools themselves.

Some warnings for those who are unsure:
Make sure the GPU is well ventilated and doesn't go higher the nominal temperatures on high load (check reviews for that).
Start the miner without overclocking the GPU at all. The difference is usually minimal and not worth it.
*While you CAN use an NVIDIA card, or a CPU to mine, you definitely won't get the same efficiency as an AMD card. (Hell, a GTX TITAN has a similar hashrate than a 7850)

Finally: If you're still unsure, i welcome you to try mining yourself, you probably won't be able to game at the same time, since the GPU will be at 99% constantly (you'll notice mouse lag overall, but you can still copy files or listen to music, watching a video will be like having a very old computer)

Can you rehost the cgminer binary here? The main site is down.

Tried mining BTC today. My card gave me 350 Mh/s which sums up to 0.2$ per day - 0.0002 BTC. Am I missing something?

If you gotta do this youre doing it wrong

Thanks for the info.

But to be quite honest, I'm not going to stress out my GPU for this. I have money, although I'm not rich, to buy any games I want anyway. Breaking my hardware for a few bucks seem to be unreasonable.

Dear Internet. I don't believe in shelling out a fucking washington to charity, and also, I take bitcoins seriously.

Is this legit? I'm interested on this mate. can you enlighten me about how to gain $10 per day?

what's with this whack explanation just give us a link that gives us the free stuff.

I'm scared of mining bitcoins cuz I heard that they can look at your computer's info

My suggestion would be to ask your parents for $1.00 or worse case, steal it from them.

They'd be a lot less angry at that than they would be when the electricity bill comes in!

I love that electricity is so damn cheap in my country.