You wrote: > > Thanks I'll have a look. > > It's quite interesting to see a bitcoin post on @misc. Regardless of what > people think, it's a really cool design.
Researching more on this it seems the days of private mining by individuals may be over already. People have created mining pools to use networks of computers like folding@home but for money obviously and are getting pretty advanced like mining with high-end video cards. People are even designing dedicated ASIC's but so far none have been delivered and when they're ready they may be sold to select individuals running pools or other bitcoin operations putting the regular guy at a further disadvantage. Bottom line appears to be a lone miner with a normal desktop computer is not going to be able to do anything but heat up his room. I agree bitcoin is a cool concept and design and the history is fascinating. But we are probably priced out.
