why laugh? People want invites, and are willing to pay. I assume you're giving yours away for free?

I notice that people get extremely defensive when someone makes a valid point such as the OP. I'm curious as to why? I'm not taking a stand here, or saying I agree/disagree with the OP, but why all the hostility?  

How much money does Mt. Gox have? I see people posting about long delays in getting their cash out. Could this be a liquidity flag? Are they using up the cash that comes in to operate in hopes of paying off the orders?

Let's forget about the hack, that could have happened to anyone, but honestly what system is in place to ensure that any exchange doesn't just rack up the coins/cash and shut down over night?

Has it been agreed by the community that we simply have to trust an exchange in the name of bitcoin?

Again, these are just questions that I've had and every thread that starts to talk about it gets bogged down by people crying foul, etc. Why?

I was sitting on $13, sad it didn't happen that way.  However, as someone pointed out - the end result is a positive for Bitcoin.

so what you're saying is you used the same password for everything?

I forgot to do this! Just here to support, too broke to buy and too broke to mine! So until I figure out how to make some coins, I'll keep helping out.

anyone want to hook it up with 99 bitcoins  Just trying to validate this average!

yup, that's what I was talking about.. takes some time.

That, or use some online wallet service.  I personally found the advice in the securing your wallet sticky to be most helpful.  I use my daily wallet for small things, donations, etc, and my secure offline wallet for big deposits.

At this point I'm too broke to really benefit from the secure wallet, but it's there haha.

yup!  I decided that I wasting electricity mining after I found that site. lol. Oh well, at this point might as well buy coins vs. mining rig.

if you want to buy tonight you might be too late on the decision.  Dwolla takes about 2-3 biz days to clear your account, then another 2-3 biz days to post the funds from your account. Sending that over to TH or Gox might take another day?

I personally went Dwolla - > Exchange, but like I mentioned it takes time to fund it. If you haven't signed up on Tradehill the link in my sig will take you to that.

Good Luck & Welcome!

I found this link in the marketplace forum, and I had been looking for something similar for days, so I just thought to share it here.  It might be common knowledge, but as a noob I didn't see any posts about it in this section.

Essentially, you input your MHash/s and get an idea of how much coin you can make in a given time frame.

http://www.btcserv.net/bitcoin-calculator/

like .05 : (

this thread kind of talks about the same thing:

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=21348.0

Awesome! can't wait to get home and test it out. Good Work!

thanks lolcat!

Oh and i've made 1 bitcoin in just over 24 hours
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Grats! I wish I could have made a coin this quick.

this made me lol, but I would agree. If i was building for mining, and mining only, I wouldn't spend on the extra.

not to hijack, but looking over that list for my personal gfx card, what am I looking for when deciding if it's "worth it".  For example I have a Nvidia 9800GTX, so are those stats in my favor?

no fires, longest I've mined is 15 hours straight.

Thanks for being so kind to my sister Samantha! After seeing how nice everyone was to her I finally downloaded my own client. Would anyone be willing to send me something? My name is Sally, and I promise she's my sister