Time for some people to wake up.

I do want to say that while I am a big supporter of crypto's and am heavily invested in both Bitcoin and Litecoin, this is not why I'm doing this.  Not many seem to be catching on that almost all the latest alt-coins are being attacked, or are susceptible to a 51% attack - well here you go.

http://i40.tinypic.com/2potapi.jpg

For example Elacoin's blockchain has been longer than reported by the explorer for some time and no one has said a thing about it.  Without closely following a real-time explorer, you have no idea what's going on.

It's unbelievable how money is being thrown into coins that can be so easily attacked.  How can you feel safe investing in a coin (ie. Powercoin) that can be manipulated with less than 5 MH/s?  If you were using GPU's to do this, you would need less than 8x 7950's.  Lots of people have far more.

My personal advice is not to even think about investing in a coin with less than a 2-3 GH/s network hash rate.  I myself get nearly 200 MH/s on a good day, and collectively with my mates we can achieve nearly 1 GH/s.  I don't see any coins surviving unless everyone mining the latest alt-coins jump on one coin to secure it.  I see exchanges making some changes!

Cheers.

P.S. Let's see how many devs actually create a checkpoint now. 

hi, i used bitvisitor for 20 minuts, meaning 4 clicks, and i didn't get paid nothing even after wait several hours

did anyone get paid by this web? looks like its full of bitcoin scams lately.

I'm no longer considered a newbie. I now have a higher prestige not just within this forum, but the Bitcoin community as a whole. Maybe even all the interwebs!

I promise I'll come back and visit you guys often. Take it easy.

EDIT: Sharing the knowledge from the NEWBIE README here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=177133.0
"Newbie Restrictions
You can only post in the Newbie and Local sub-forums till you have 5 posts and at least 4 hours on the forum.  The other two restrictions are you need 1 post to be able to send a PM and 10 posts to put a link in your sig."

I joined BTC Guild pool and was using them but it has gotten too large now and so it's impractical to use them anymore,

does anyone know of any good small to medium sized Bitcoin mining pools?

Thanks

Honestly, I don't know. I haven't seen anyone else reporting errors, so it's probably just me. See for yourself.