I just had a read of this:
http://www.finance-guy.net/finblog/is-difficulty-creating-centralization-of-bitcoin

It makes a fair point, that mining pools are becoming too powerful, and I don't know about you but my home computer would be useless at mining.

What do you think?  is the growing difficulty bad for mining?

I've heard that PayPal may be integrating Bitcoin into their system soon.

The best faucet is faucet where you have more referrals.
If you don't have 10-20-etc referrals any faucet is just the wasting of time.
Sometimes faucets can help newbies to earn some money and start something more serious: cloud mining, gambling, etc.
So, faucets for newbies and for bots. 

Wondering if S4 is good investment, any suggestion about that equipment

Hi, could someone give me a rough estimate on how long one would have to mine to achieve 1 bitcoin ?

Say the scenario/setup is as follows:

- 7970 GPU (500 avg Mhash/s)
- 24/7 operation
- Slush's pool (or similar)

Thank you

Interested to see if anyone is still buying new mining rigs?

I decided that i'll stick with what I have as it seems like a waste hurling more money at it now. The difficulty is still increasing so I guess someone is.

There is a lot of buzz on Chinese forums that Russia reduced fines for Bitcoin involvement and in fact Russia is opening up to Bitcoin. The Chinese are crazed at this time and buying in big time as they did last year around the same time.

Yeah right, unfortunately it's not an easy task to get advertisers on your site.