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Think you can get them here for free, if you're still interested:
http://www.spotify.com/us/om/
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btcguild is awesome 'cause of the 8 decimal payouts and the fact that you can choose what to give back.
That's definitely something that would be useful, considering my crappy abilities 
I do recommend going with 2.5% or more because you don't wanna have spent 5 or more hours on a block that ended up being invalid and not being paid for the work you did. I'm mining over there now to see if their policy that intends to stop pool-hopper from taking away from 24/7 miners is working.
Can you explain more on what you mean by these two things? I assume by the 2.5% you mean giving a percentage back to btcguild, but how does that end up helping you?Also, I'm definitely not a pool hopper by any stretch of imagination, but I don't have a computer I can use 24/7 for mining. Would this new policy affect me?
Thanks for the help!
One thing keeps me puzzled. The contents of wallet.dat do change (additional data added) upon new btc address/keys creation right?
If you have a wallet.dat file stored somewhere in a safe and not used for a few years, and you actually use another wallet.dat (a copy of the safely stored one), what happens once you decide to bring up the safely stored wallet.dat on a different PC after some time?
Do you have all your funds or only the funds that you gained with the old keys available on both wallet.dats?
If you have a wallet.dat file stored somewhere in a safe and not used for a few years, and you actually use another wallet.dat (a copy of the safely stored one), what happens once you decide to bring up the safely stored wallet.dat on a different PC after some time?
Do you have all your funds or only the funds that you gained with the old keys available on both wallet.dats?
I believe the keys (addresses) don't change when you are sent money, so the wallet you have stored in a safe would remain the same after years of sending it money. The wallet that you use to send money would be updated though. That's what I've read around here at least
I use deepbit and btcguild (2.5% 'donation') depending on the luck because they pay you for invalid blocks. its worth it.
What's your opinion on the two? I've heard people like deepbit because of the immediate results (and I guess because it's so huge), but the 0% fee of btcguild sounds nice too
Has anyone tried something like craigslist? I usually buy and sell video games using craigslist just because it saves money from the ebays/paypals of the world. But I really haven't seen much activity when searching for "bitcoin" on craigslist. Guess its not popular enough yet?
Yes, some pools will penalize you for this as they perceive it to be 'pool hopping'.
Interesting... because I don't have a dedicated machine to do this, nor do I have much horsepower, I think I'll stick to one of the bigger sites because of this...
Does it matter if you only have certain times during the day when you can mine? I'm wondering about using one of the smaller pools, but if I can only contribute for a couple hours here and there during the day, do I still get a portion of the coin if they solved a block while I was not there?
@catfish
I would agree with what you've said and what the OP said to start the thread. It sounds as if securing the wallet (using truecrypt, or any encryption tool) on an unsecure computer is rather pointless, the more I read about this. Because once you unlock the wallet, it's available for anyone to grab. The one point that I've heard a couple times is the one made by this thread -- create a couple wallets to use for day to day stuff, which to me means on your daily computers. And then create one wallet on a fresh install or at least on a machine that has no day to day use. Then send money to that savings account like you would a normal savings account.
I'm not sure if rotating the savings account is important though. It would seem as though if you trusted creating the savings account to begin with, then why create another one? Creating more savings accounts would only cause you to be less secure, no? I mean every time you have to do this you must somehow get into this "clean room" environment and create the account, copy the wallet's across a host of devices to ensure they're backed up. Take it with you to some bank and lock it in a vault, etc. All of these things are susceptible to a "bad guy" getting access to it, and the more you do this the more chances you leave for it to get out.
One question I have: I am a n00b to this, but am trying to find my way by reading the forums and such. One thing I haven't quite figured out is how you go about finding these "10 addresses" that are automatically created for each new account. Whenever I start up bitcoin for the first time, I only see 1 address. I can create more, but I'm not sure if that's the same thing. Either way, I figured I'd just remember the 1 address that's created by default and send all my money to that one address.
I would agree with what you've said and what the OP said to start the thread. It sounds as if securing the wallet (using truecrypt, or any encryption tool) on an unsecure computer is rather pointless, the more I read about this. Because once you unlock the wallet, it's available for anyone to grab. The one point that I've heard a couple times is the one made by this thread -- create a couple wallets to use for day to day stuff, which to me means on your daily computers. And then create one wallet on a fresh install or at least on a machine that has no day to day use. Then send money to that savings account like you would a normal savings account.
I'm not sure if rotating the savings account is important though. It would seem as though if you trusted creating the savings account to begin with, then why create another one? Creating more savings accounts would only cause you to be less secure, no? I mean every time you have to do this you must somehow get into this "clean room" environment and create the account, copy the wallet's across a host of devices to ensure they're backed up. Take it with you to some bank and lock it in a vault, etc. All of these things are susceptible to a "bad guy" getting access to it, and the more you do this the more chances you leave for it to get out.
One question I have: I am a n00b to this, but am trying to find my way by reading the forums and such. One thing I haven't quite figured out is how you go about finding these "10 addresses" that are automatically created for each new account. Whenever I start up bitcoin for the first time, I only see 1 address. I can create more, but I'm not sure if that's the same thing. Either way, I figured I'd just remember the 1 address that's created by default and send all my money to that one address.