Quote from: And1129 on November 06, 2014, 05:59:36 AM

Hey all, I guess this is sort of an introduction thread. Over the past month or so i've really caught the bug for bitcoins; i'm kinda late to the party, but here I am. I think bitcoins are really cool and will have some future. I've been doing a lot of reading and research and looking over hardware and software stuff lately. I've got a couple different wallets and have already invested some money into buying bitcoin. I'm not looking to get-rich quick with bitcoin or whatever, but rather i'm really interested in learning more about the whole process, system, and bitcoin community. I've done a little bit of mining with my computer's CPU and that was very cool to get to work. I understand that any mining I do or even might do may never be significant, but i'm still onboard with this thing and want to jump in and give it a go. My current hardware is old and really not up to the task, but i downloaded the blockchain and some other mining and wallet programs anyway so that I can start to learn this stuff and get into it. I just bought one of the small Antminer U2's USB miner thingy and should be reviving that to play with tomorrow. What's driving some of this is that in 2-3 months i'm going to be buying a fantastic top of the line gaming pc rig that i'm currently selecting hardware components for and I want to use that idle, while not playing games, to mine for me. I may also consider buying a few dedicated bitcoin miners. I'll ask specific hardware questions later. For now, i have been having issues with getting some of the mining programs to work at all. I had been using GUIminer and mining in Slush's pool for a week or so just fine. Minuscule performance and return on my mining, but i expect that and don't care because i'm just trying to learn. But now GUIminer won't open at all. I've also downloaded and tried Bitminter and BFGminer, but haven't had success implementing those programs at all. What weird's me out is GUIminer worked perfectly and now doesn't and nothing's changed that i can think of. Huh

So that's where I am now. If someone wants to help me based on that, that would be great. Otherwise, later on I may open a single topic thread with more direct and pointed questions.
Until then, i'll still be here tinkering in the backgrounds...

You need to know more for doing thins like this as like me that still finding out more to earn more....is using cpu in mining is not that good anyway....and you need to secure your savings so that its really secured for your investment.BTC