Hi,

The website and pool seem to be down at the moment

Are there any problems?

anyone else having this issue?

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i initally agreed, didn't see the logic in mandating minimum 5 posts in the newbie forum, thought it would just result in me making 5 spam posts, but in reality it was pretty easy to contribute constructive posts and actually halp answer questions

Theres a good write up at bitcoin magazine explaining the recently proposed guidelines from FINCEN
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/fincen-bitcoin-users-not-regulated-exchanges-are/

not sure how this will pan out for miners, but it legitimizes the use of bitcoin for the buying of goods and services so thats gotta be good

5 posts and 4 hours logged in then i beleive you will become a Jr member

theres a thread for requesting an exception to this rule
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=15911.0

this was written only last week
http://cryptojunky.com/blog/2013/03/12/absolute-beginners-guide-to-litecoin-mining/

site may be having problems right now heres a cached version
here

yeah bitcoin mining on your home PC is not that profitable anymore, i wouldn't be expecting to mine loads of bitcoin unless you have a dedicated rig, or better yet wait for ASIC mining hardware check out butterflylabs or avalon they should be shipping products soon

I sure hope so, it's a bit of a pain, but i'll try and find 4 useful threads to reply to, so i can start posting elsewhere

EDIT: for the record 5 posts was easy. didn't need to spam either