Who here uses BitCoin?

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That's why all we should keep at least 1 backup of our wallets on a usb stick.

Yeah
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I know but I'm just doing this for fun...with a laptop GPU these days, no way am I gonna hit 1BTC in any pools for a LONG time.

And approximately 89 years to hit a block solo...lolz :D

Anyways, I've looked into these pool things and I know that the owners get most. It's been advertised in almost all info sites and others that they get fees and whatever...lolz.

Like I said, I run it ever so often when I'm not using anything on my laptop so I just run the miner. :S

You can get a good basic idea here.

Get a bitcoint client, get your ID, and sign up for a mining pool unless you have a FPGA/ASCI set up in which case you might be better off solo but you can still join pools to get a constant flow of coins. The flow won't be like 1BTC every hour or so but rather 0.00008927 BTC an hour or two.

You also need a miner which you should just get GUIminer if you're just starting...
and shameless interjection:

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