hello.

I want to support bitcoinstore, by buying a new desktop.

but i am a stupid noob.

Id like a computer that I can use both as a sweet gaming rig, but also as a bitcoin pool miner (just as a break-even-with-power-usage-hey-i-can-turn-off-my-heater-because-this-thing-is-practically-its-own-space-heater hobby, not super serious butterflylabs thing here).

Does anyone have suggustions? Most of their prebuit computers look like boring officy things. I dont really care if it looks boring or not, but i do want to be able to play games on it... preferably while also streaming... and then mining while i sleep.

I have ~ 2k usd to spend. which totally sucks because if i had converted it to bitcoin earlier... whatever. its cool.  (is bitinstant still the best way? what is this liqpay i am seeing... i like credit cards if at all possible...)

any thoughts?

from coinbase:

"You will receive your bitcoin once the bank transfer completes.  Usually this is within four business days (note, not calendar days).  We’ll send you an email when your bitcoins arrive."

That is past christmas.

clearly i should have known that it would take ~2 weeks to get anything done.

ya... as far from what i can gather from bitinstant... I put in US dollars, and get bitcoins... which means I have to guess about how many dollars I need to get the quantity of bitcoins I need to buy the coins.

It also means gas money, and getting cash in the first place.

Was buy some shinies (https://www.casascius.com/) for a coin collector for christmas.

the number of accounts, and bullcrap I have gone though... downloaded, whatever. and still have been unable to do anything.

someone give me a goddam box to put in a credit card number into that is all i ask!

how can you say this is easy. how can you say it is convenient. When i have spent literally hours trying to figure out how to spend my goddammed US dollars?!??!

do not. get it.