Enter Litecoin

  So ran into Litecoin, read all about it.  Their aim is to be to the Robin to Bitcoins Batman (And very soon this blog will be taken down because of that analogy).  And they seem to me pretty damn on target.  Why litecoin instead of all the other bitcoin clones.  Perhaps because you can mine for litecoins without it interfereing with your bitcoin mining (as near as I can tell) because litecoin is mined with the CPU.  So no competing for GPU power.  So now my CPU has something to do while I am mining for bitcoin.

Quick start guide!
(1)go to litecoin.org and download the client.
(2)create and account here http://pool-x.eu/
(3)go here http://pool-x.eu/accountworkers and create a slave/worker
(4)then go download the miner here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=55038.0 it's cpuminer 2.1.1 and unzip it
(5)go to your cpuminer folder and create a bat file and insert this line

minerd.exe --url http://mine.pool-x.eu:8337 --userpass g2x3k.1:x --threads 2 -r -1

and save.

(6)Double click the bat file and watch your cpu go to town.
(7)tip me in litecoin LQsmeLT9iVn5giLizFVka79mAXgX85nLML
  or BTC 12nn6hgW8qf4T7gnaFdN8UQTBVFCnfkjQe
should it please you to do so.

And ofcourse there are other pools you can join (copied from elsewhere)
(Proportional) http://litecoinpool.dyndns.org/
(Proportional) https://lc.ozco.in/
(Proportional) http://coinotron.com/
(PPLNS) http://66.166.64.126:8080/
(PPLNS) http://pool-x.eu/
(PPLNS) http://liteco.in/threads/130-kh-s-distributed-litecoin-pool-using-p2pool.29/
(PPS) http://www.litecoinpool.org/

ENJOY!