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I'm totally new to this, but love this idea!
I want to help, (and generate coin), and have only installed Bitcoin-Qt version 0.8.1
It ran, synchronized; I encrypted my wallet.
But now what? Will it use my 2 NVIDIA gtx580 GPU's on its own? Do I need to do anything else, other than just let it run?
Got the green checkmark; up to date
I have 8 active connections and my wallet is both locked(?) and encrypted.
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I just did this today...
I found a mining pool (I picked Eligius) from here https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Comparison_of_mining_pools
The pools website had further instructions. In my case, I installed a mining client "bfgminer" and followed the instructions to add my ID. It sounds like for a windows OS, GUIMiner might be a good start too.
gui miner thread https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=3878.0
The key thing to realize is that there is a difference being a BitCoin "client", which is what you setup above, and a BitCoin "miner" which requires the steps I in this response.
bfgminer thread https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=78192 (could only post 2 links above)
– David Kassa – 2013-03-25T04:43:58.050The official bitcoin-qt bitcoin client was the first bitcoin miner as well, but it only supports solo-mining. Unless you have some powerful equipment you're much better off mining with a pool, which requires the separate application like gui-miner. – disinter – 2013-03-25T17:50:27.673
i think its a pretty strong rig, so i just keep on waiting? – nevets – 2013-03-25T19:16:21.720
bitcoin-qt won't mine on your GPUs. It's not a miner, think of it as a wallet. You can send and receive coins with it. I created a miner that is dead simple to use. You'll find it at bitminter.com – Dr.Haribo – 2013-03-25T21:45:01.747