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j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckM <div class="post"><div class="quoteheader">Quote</div><div class="quote">Is It Better To Buy Or Generate Bitcoins?</div>I'd say: it depends.&nbsp; <img alt="Grin" border="0" src="/static/img/emoticons/grin.gif"/><br/><br/>if you need coins to do stuff right now, there's no guaranteed way to generate them anyway, can't be "better" that way.<br/>if you dont need coins and just want to support the network, there's no need to buy any (or generate, to <b>try</b> would be enough).<br/><br/>can't even say which is cheaper, or <i>less expensive</i>, that again depends on where you live and what you have to invest (in power and/or hardware).<br/><br/>for me:<br/>i just went down from ~8000khs to ~1500khs at the latest difficulty-step, so i'm actually not expecting to gain lots of coins in the near future, but still <i>generate</i> to help find new blocks.<br/>running a machine (that sucks up &gt;20W) only to <i>generate coins</i> is already useless to me (or needs to be bought/build/invested in first) and (watching current difficulty and market-prices) will prolly result in a loss.<br/>i'm wondering anyway, why the market didn't change at all the last 2 diff.steps, watched and waited a bit, but this is it for me, i'm done generating coins.&nbsp; &nbsp;<img alt="Grin" border="0" src="/static/img/emoticons/grin.gif"/><br/>sad thing is, that i have to wait about a month to get coins from MtGox too, but i'll at least get some more than 50btc at once, we'll need some other payment-options there quick.<br/><br/><br/>nice article!</div> text/html