Hope to earn some street cred. here. Dis-appointmented that mining is only for pros now.
Not really. You need some decent hardware as in video card but even that can be put on a pool to mine for coins.
Not really- it is going to take quite a bit of effort and a spare 'good' machine to get anything close to a profit on this new wave of venture capitalism.
Even so, I will do what I can to make some 'free' money.;
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what an awful society this is. =)