Quote from: Winterfrost on November 26, 2012, 10:27:27 PM

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Hey guys, read a NS article earlier about bitcoins - interesting.

Anyway, I used strongcoin to open an account and did some freebie stuff now my balance is showing as 5.0e-05 (not quite sure what that means, never mind!). So I decided to mine and installed 50Miner and my hahrate is 82mh/s - not great but it's not a fantastic graphics card.

That means you have 0.00005 BTC (about $0.000625); a small amount.

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1. is strongcoin okay to store my bitcoins? If not, what should I use and can I move my balance across?

It's probably alright for small amounts. I've always liked the wallet on blockchain.info, personally. The small amount you have is hardly worth moving and would likely have a hard time getting confirmed.

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2. What does Solutions: X mean on 50Miner?

I've not used 50Miner, but it's probably how many valid shares you've submitted. Shares are a way of determining how much work each person contributing has done, so that the reward can be split fairly. See https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Pooled_mining for some useful explanations.

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I've a lot to learn about bitcoins but I like the idea.

Thanks.

There's a lot of information to absorb, certainly. Hopefully I've been able to help some.

Thank you!

Does the 5 before the . indicate 5 bitcoins though, do you know?