AHHH I get it now! lol so you pay someone else to use their hardware to mine for you. That sounds like a huge scam. They could easilly mine and just keep everything and say they got nothing. OR like you said, not mine at all.

It's so exciting to see more and more businesses accepting bitcoins as payment! LOL Bitcoins are literally spreading to every part of the business spectrum. The other day my nephew mowed my lawn and I paid him in BTC 

So I tried out some faucets earlier today, just as an experiment to see how much Satoshi I could actually earn and how long it would take. So, I went to microwallet.org and opened up every last one of the faucets it linked me too (the ones that worked) and I also did it with land of bitcoins or w/e (there was some overlap). Had about 25-30 different pages opened and for bout 5 hours straight I went and completed each of the 30ish faucets on queue. Most could be completed once an hour, some were 15-30 mins, and 2 were 5 mins I believe. My microwallet is now sitting at 7.4k satoshi (roughly 2 cents) and amongst the other faucets not linked to microwallet there is an accumulated 11k satoshi (roughly 3 cents). so over 5 hours of solving captchas i earned a whopping 5 cents. Now granted, I didnt spend the whole 5 hours solving captchas, but I did spend bout an hour hunting them all down, and then another 25 mins each hour doing the captchas to claim the satoshi. So all in all, faucets are a complete waste of time right now. You never know though.. That 5 cents could explode in value to 5$ or more in no time.

My GF actually introduced me to bitcoins! Sadly she really dislikes forums, so she isn't a member here. She has a history of getting into dramatic arguments and getting banned from forums. I swear it had to have happened over 30 times lol. She is feisty one! But she is an avid miner and she LOVES the BTC ideals!

Wait, what is PBMining? I was under the understanding that mining BTC was using w/e GPU you have to solve complex algorithms. So how can someone mine with zero power costs? GPU usage = power consumption. What am I missing here?

Thank you guys for the info! I was wondering the same thing! Maybe one day I can sell my signature for some BTC. lol

LOL well now, that escalated quickly.

So, essentially bitpay only performs certain jobs that a full exchange does, and not the full spectrum. This argument brings us to a question.... What truly defines an "exchange"? Surely there are other sites and programs that provide more of the spectrum than others, yet many opf the ones that are lacking are still considered "exchanges". I mean technically isn't it an exchange by definition just by providing the possibility of purchasing goods and services for a currency?  i mean there is an "exchange" happening in that equation.

I can see what you're trying to argue here but there's lots of different parts to this equation. The first part being, that english is a pretty universal language, i mean if its not your first language, chances are it's your second (if you're bilingual) Romanian? Not so much. I've also had bilingual friends who accidently post in the wrong language. 

I totally agree. A cryptocurrency is a universal currency but lets go ahead and compare it to a national currency anyway. If a country had multiple forms of currency it would do nothing but dilute the value of each and every seperate currency and it would cause economic chaos really. Which is why MOST countries stay away from that, and when they come out with new technology for the currency they do away with the old. Which is how cryptocurrency should work also, If one is better because of an advancment then naturally it should take the forefront. But there should not be multiple forms of essentially the same currency with absolutely no difference but the name. It dilutes the market and its main purpose is to just trick newbie investors who don't have a clue.

And this is the reason why cryptocurrency will be the new leading form of currency in the future =P, with bitcoins leading the pack! With inflation rates like that, and the inflation rate of the dollar, we are looking at crazy bitcoin values when converted to USD in just the next 5-10 years! It's crazy!