Heh what's amusing is Coinbase isn't working (at least for me; I've been trying to buy the Android w/ PC Bundle 8 bundle all day) so this is all moot =p.
Edit: This info is a bit moot now, but I didn't want to leave bad info. Apperently Coinbase was having some trouble earlier and I attempted to buy the bundle too many times ending in failure so my IP was temp. blocked. Using my cellphone's 3/4G IP and browser I was able to get my copy this way.
As far as this topic as a whole, it's about a year too late. Sure you can try your luck at making it big with some cypto-currencies besides Bitcoin (I personally recommend PPC as I think it will be the 2nd most valuable very soon), but people just entering the field will find it hard to see a return on investment when it comes to Bitcoin (some of us got lucky and horded our Bitcoins... I made some sales at $120/USD, $250/USD and ~$1,000/USD and made most of those coins when they were only worth $20 or so).
Unlike Bitcoin and other SHA256-based hashing, Litecoin and it's scrypt brothern hasn't seen a huge spike due to specific hardware not really being commercially available (it would be possible, however scrypt has a very give a take way of computing it's values, esp. in memory, which makes it an awesome tool for security but very hard to replicate into an ASIC chip for example).
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While mining Bitcoin is useless right now without dedicated hardware, the scrypt coins are pretty good. I've never mined much (for which I'm of course sorry now), less than 2 months total, and that with a Radeon 5850. At every point the electricity cost more than the mining got me, which was why I thought it was useless, but the bitcoin always went up more, making it worth a lot in retrospect. So if you mine and keep your coins, I think there's a chance they'll be worth something in the long run. (I assume that the Bitcoin value will continue to rise.)
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