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I see all these ways to spend the mythical BitCoins, zero ways fro me to create some.

Is there any feasible way to get any BTC when I only have my home couple of machines (none of which are GPU giants)?

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It isn't what you mean, but you can get some by buying them.

Mining bitcoin without special purpose hardware is pointless. Your best bet would be to predict whatever copycat was going to get popular and have mined some of it before that happened (but this isn't a simple prediction to get right...). Then you can probably trade those for bitcoin.

At this point there's almost 200 "the new thing" alt coins. Everybody wants to be in on "the new thing", which makes them all just pump and dump economies. It's a futile idea.

I was sort of trying to not make it sound like a good idea.

The easiest way to obtain bitcoins (aside from buying them) is to offer a service or provide a value and accept bitcoins as payment.

Webcam + Skype + Wallet ID + Lonely Person = Bitcoins.

This only works for women.

What now?

You can mine litecoins and sell them for bitcoins... I hear there's a ASIC LTC miner around the corner...

This is actually really funny, though I don't quite have the words to explain why I think it's humorous.

I do. Litecoin was meant to be GPU resistant, failed at that, and also at making it ASIC resistant.

Not bad. It's still missing something, but it's close.

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