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How long does it take to create a coin using the official client? The only coin I have is from that bit coin faucet that I heard about a while back. I've been running the client now for almost a month, and nothing. I've dedicated 2 of my laptop cores on coin generation, but I haven't seen anything. Or, are the only people getting coins those that are using their GPUs to generate coins?

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Check how many khash/s do you process and use this calculator http://www.alloscomp.com/bitcoin/calculator.php to estimate how long you'll have to wait to get bitcoins with 95% probability.

I currently have 150 000 khash/s on Radeon HD 6850 And I'm hoping to see 50 bitcoins per two months (I don't run my computer 24/7).

Six core AMD 1090T does only 9 000 khash/s so with two cores of laptop you'll see your first mined bitcoin exactly 5 seconds after hell freezes over. ;-)

You probably want to ditch the official client join a mining pool to get anything, but sadly without a GPU you won't get much. I just started goofing around this weekend and earned like 0.07 BTC from three computers over at http://btcmine.com/. But I was surprised I actually could use the GPU on my MacBook Pro, not that it's anywhere as fast as the ones serious miners are using.

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