Bitcoin beginners guide

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Welcome to my guide to earning Bitcoin.   If you need a brief intro to Bitcoin read it here.
I am writing this because there is a lot of information out there and I want to get you through the clutter and get your feet wet asap.

You do this totally at your own risk and I’m not responsible for anything that might go wrong or any damages or loss of any kind.  If you agree, please continue. Otherwise find another guide. 

(1) you need the official bitcoin client which you can get here http://bitcoin.org/
Once it is installed, it will synchronize.  It took me ALL DAMN DAY to do it so install and go play some BF3 or Skyrim or whatever you are playing.

While it is synchronizing I believe you can go ahead and start mining, although I did not try it, because if you look in your Recieve Bitcoin tab you already have an address.
You can solo mine but from what I have read it could take you up to two months to earn your prize of 50 bitcoins.  I do not know this for myself.  I personally have opted not to solo mine but to join a mining pool so that I may have a more frequent and steadier income of bitcoin.


(2)For solo or pool mining eitherway you will want to get this simple guiminer and install it.
(3)To mine with a pool you can join mine here by clicking on this location.

(4)Once you sign up you will need to click on your account and add your bitcoin address.
(5)Then click on the worker link and make up a worker username and password.
(6)Once you do this go to your GUIminer program and for server drop down to OTHER.  For host type in eu.triplemining.com with port 8344.  Where is says username and password put your worker username and password.
(7)Select your GPU and click start mining.
Will I now become rich? No but I will leave you with the fact that as of right this moment 1 Bitcoin is selling for $6.48.
  One last thing.  Get into it NOW because all though every time one block is decrypted and yields 50 bitcoins sometime this year it will drop down to only yeilding 25 per block.
Currently have my rig on turbo mode and placed in a cool location.  Will update with results.  But seriously dont wait for me, jump on this shit now.
Good luck with your experiment.