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I understand where you're coming from about meeting people in person with large amounts of cash, you never know. Never used localbitcoins, but you can deal solely with a reputable member. Maybe you can ask the seller if they would accept a money order as payment. As for linking a account to coinbase, you should be safe. Its a US based company out of San Francisco I believe. I just linked my bank account to my coinbase, currently waiting on the deposit verifications 
Hmmm I'm not sure bud. I found this for your previous error message:
3.21 Protocol xxx not supported or disabled in libcurl
When passing on a URL to curl to use, it may respond that the particular protocol is not supported or disabled. The particular way this error message is phrased is because curl doesn't make a distinction internally of whether a particular protocol is not supported (i.e. never got any code added that knows how to speak that protocol) or if it was explicitly disabled. curl can be built to only support a given set of protocols, and the rest would then be disabled or not supported.
Note that this error will also occur if you pass a wrongly spelled protocol part as in "htpt://example.com" or as in the less evident case if you prefix the protocol part with a space as in " http://example.com/".
If you're still stuck hopefully someone more knowledgable will come along and shed some light.
Edit: In my command line for cgminer I use "stratum.btcguild.com:3333" to connect, not sure if it's the same with minerd.
3.21 Protocol xxx not supported or disabled in libcurl
When passing on a URL to curl to use, it may respond that the particular protocol is not supported or disabled. The particular way this error message is phrased is because curl doesn't make a distinction internally of whether a particular protocol is not supported (i.e. never got any code added that knows how to speak that protocol) or if it was explicitly disabled. curl can be built to only support a given set of protocols, and the rest would then be disabled or not supported.
Note that this error will also occur if you pass a wrongly spelled protocol part as in "htpt://example.com" or as in the less evident case if you prefix the protocol part with a space as in " http://example.com/".
If you're still stuck hopefully someone more knowledgable will come along and shed some light.
Edit: In my command line for cgminer I use "stratum.btcguild.com:3333" to connect, not sure if it's the same with minerd.
It depends on the pool, but most pools divide it amongst the miners. You can see a list of pools and find out if they keep the fees or not: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Comparison_of_mining_pools
Seems like you're trying to mine in scrypt algorithm, need to change it to sha-256, was able to find this for minerd, hope it helps!
Q: What's the difference between the two available algorithms, scrypt and sha256d?
A: They are completely different proof-of-work algorithms. You must use scrypt for Litecoin, and you must use sha256d for Bitcoin. The default algorithm is scrypt, so for Bitcoin mining you have to specify --algo=sha256d.
Q: What's the difference between the two available algorithms, scrypt and sha256d?
A: They are completely different proof-of-work algorithms. You must use scrypt for Litecoin, and you must use sha256d for Bitcoin. The default algorithm is scrypt, so for Bitcoin mining you have to specify --algo=sha256d.
Please tell me that this goes away! I am losing my mind waiting to post. 
Not sure if it goes away completely, but am pretty sure the amount of time decreases as you post more and more. It is a tad annoying but protects against spammers
Re: Once a bitcoin miner, computer crashed, no backup of wallet.
That very same two years ago I spent some time mining....that computer has since crashed and I do not have a backup of the hard drive, or even have that computer anymore. I threw it in the trash.
My question is this...is there any way to recover the coin I had mined and sent to my Bitcoin QT wallet.....
My question is this...is there any way to recover the coin I had mined and sent to my Bitcoin QT wallet.....
Im affraid, but without backup or hard drive, your coins are lost.
Unfortunately this is the truth. With out either of the 2, your coins are gone forever
Are there a couple more to think about maybe or is CGMiner a safe way to go? I think I will be ok with the installation of the software but thanks for the heads up!
No problem! Heres a link listing all the mining software available, hope it helps! https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_software
Im a new user who wants to invest on bitcoins and i feel the price for 1 bitcoin is absurd. Im certain is just this way because of some greedy chinese who took most bitcoin out of circulation and are waiting to cash out when they feel like. Right now it looks like a bull trap and deserves to crash to teach those chinese a lesson who will panic sell. Otherwise Bitcoin will fail simply because none in a mainstream society wants to deal with a currency based on decimals. example
how much is a tv?
0.1 btc wow that sounds stupid. Its already hard enough for a mainstream user to trust an exchange with their money to buy bitcoins. Now its even more hard to get 1 because of the price.
I am a mainstream user who heard about bitcoin in the news and although this post doesnt sound smart. This is how most mainstream users will think like and without our support it will unlikely get acceptance in our society.
Do you usually buy 1kg of gold?how much is a tv?
0.1 btc wow that sounds stupid. Its already hard enough for a mainstream user to trust an exchange with their money to buy bitcoins. Now its even more hard to get 1 because of the price.
I am a mainstream user who heard about bitcoin in the news and although this post doesnt sound smart. This is how most mainstream users will think like and without our support it will unlikely get acceptance in our society.
No I presume. You will buy more like 0.02kg, meaning 20 grams.
And still you are perfectly ok with this.
The same will happen with bitcoin.
Soon we will have to use mBTC as the unit.
Very well said! I believe this is the whole reason of bitcoin going down 8 decimal places. As price goes up I think we will start trading in mBTC but who knows
Any suggestions for websites that offer good mining software? Thanks in advance for any information!
CGMiner is the best, it might be complicated to set if your not much computer savvy
Ahhh I misread the question, yes CGMiner is the best but as he said slightly difficult to set up at first.