I do have a Coinbase account/wallet. I would imagine Coinbase has a means of setting up donations the way Eligius support page is suggesting when using Bitcoin-qt.
This is what I have thus far in my "message" to copy and paste into whatever I would use on Coinbase to implement the message:
My Eligius - 2014-11-11 15:30:30 UTC - Nickname=Proud%20Clown Minimum_Payout_BTC=.50000001 Donate_Pool=.5 Donate_Stats=.5 Donate_Hosting=.5
I just need someone to point out to me where and/or what on Coinbase I need to use to get this message going with a proper signature to implement the message? Any help someone could provide would be appreciated. Like I said, I'm NEW to bitcoin and mining bitcoin. Please forgive my ignorance...
Here is how to sign a message using a Coinbase Bitcoin wallet address:
https://support.coinbase.com/customer/portal/articles/1526413-how-do-i-sign-a-message-with-a-bitcoin-address-That being said, I would recommend not using Coinbase as your wallet. Download Bitcoin-Qt or an alternative like Armory. They are all available for Mac. Don't download Bitcoin-Qt to a storage-limited device like a laptop with an SSD or a small hard drive. You will want at least 50GB of space to store the blockchain. No, it is not that big yet, but it is roughly half of that and it is growing. You don't want to have to delete stuff off your laptop in order to fit the blockchain. If storage is constrained on all your Macs, use a lightweight client like Electrum that does not require a full copy of the blockchain.