How to Make a Bitcoin

First a nice clean overview. Jonathan has a quick review of what, where, how and when about BitCoin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXmIeOL0QPg And a much longer explanation of step by step with more hands on screen capture approach. Very step by step and don't be afraid to use the pause button and rewind to get what you need out of it. Which is a bit coin, or part of one at least. At least, you make a wallet and fool around with it to kick the tires. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7opj5-32hw Some nice instructions, ummmm, some of it is a bit technical but written cleanly enough to hit the steps described. Plus the author has a nice description of what you are looking for when using your wallet or mining a bitcoin. http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/08/how-to-mine-bitcoins/ And that's it. About the same amount of time to open a bank account. The pool option for BitCoin mining is important to understand for larger organizations with immense amounts of capacity called workstations. You'll probably need to talk to the person running the service desk first about this depending on your ever greening policy and amortization schedule. BUT...for those of you that put the capital investment into the equipment are more than likely going to find a nice ATi card or a solid nVidia already in it. This is a BtC profit calculator. Your PM needs this and the bean counters. http://www.bitcoinx.com/profit/ This is a list of hardware and how fast it makes a BitCoin. Your Service Desk manager and the Asset Manager need this. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison Most of the middle tier office computer equipment already comes standard so all of your organizations are ready to go as soon as you want to implement. If looking for muscle to tank BitCoin, say if you are a bank/investor. There are larger/faster card options out there to reuse all those 5U boxes you get charged through the nose for when disposing of them. The techs gut them and slap a couple of the cards in the old 5U's. The capital investment of old amortized equipment starts to pay for itself. When doing the analysis on a corporate/community/business scale keep an eye on Network utilization and QoS services. You will eat data, but soon with the Quantum technology platforms it'll be moving at the speed of compressed light. It's really neat stuff. What about power consumption of the desktops? It's using the draw already from the floor, use the profit calculator to determine the ROI or even cost recovery against the annoyance of equipment amortization and maintenance. Doesn't matter which way it goes, it shouldn't cost a dime if using available resources. Meets the criteria of good/fast/cheap in one change if understanding that it can be a method to self fund your organizations as they stand. If the machine is on and costing you money, turn it around and make it pay you back. Make it work with you instead of being a boat anchor and plan on better equipment soon. The carrot is there to move technology a head. If the Planck law of computing is standard on this, it'll just end up exponential, there is a definite likelihood of improving how power is made as well. First though, just play with it and fool around with the bitcoin you generated with the steps above. No limit to how many wallets you can make, either, so you can send BtC from one wallet to another. Just like you can take cash out of one wallet to another. Or use a phone app to keep BtC on hand. Search for BitCoin wallet. Or write the BtC address on a piece of paper. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/How_to_set_up_a_secure_offline_savings_wallet If anyone has questions in any language I am willing to bet there is someone local that can help out. Google BitCoin Setup YourLocation. There are lots of folks working on it out there that have been working hard for a long time and are committed to this. All shapes and sizes, all countries, all races and you all own it together. Leaves room for a lot of good things to happen in an open future with a fresh start with minimal disruption and all the resources everyone has at their disposal. If you want to throw ideas out there or tomatoes feel free. Thanks for your time; CPL