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Best thing you can do is run cgminer and connect to CKPoolSolo. But that assumes you have an ASIC miner. I just read you have a GPU... sigh...
A GPU doesn't really work for mining real Bitcoin. You will simply waste your time and electricity.
It's like trying to mine for gold with a plastic spoon. Even with an ASIC you are basically playing a lottery. A GPU is just a waste of time, really.
If you just want to do this as a learning experience, you can mine at testnet with your GPU. These coins don't have any value, and they might disappear at any time.
I wrote a couple of guides about this on Bitcointalk:
I came across it independently somehow. I remember landing at the bitcoin wiki page early on and then getting onto the bitcointalk forums, the IRC channels and the bitcoin OTC web of trust. I remember donating to Wikileaks when they started getting financially blockaded and that was an "ah ha" moment for me. Silk road was amazing too, I got on Tor and perused it and remember thinking how cool it was. Never ordered anything though :D
I was thinking of your posts when I set it up.
Lets make this territory great!
As is, I already have lots of feedback for @k00b and team on the general plan/incentives/tools, to make these "territories" work well. Like he says, its software.
You can count on me to be a high-integrity territory-op(erator), in a do-whats-best-for-greater-good kindof way.
In due time, i'm hoping we can agree to some principles/guidance that make sense for the econ territory, which will be compatible with the long run vision of SN.
Giddy-up!
It's like an abacus, the old calculator which uses beads on a wire - the beads can slide along the wire to either side, but they stay on the wire. They can slide in either direction until they're all on one side. Once the beads are all on one side it means the channel can only send (no inbound liquidity beads left to slide) or only receive (no outbound liquidity beads left to slide.)
Even though some of a nodes channels have all the liquidity on one side, it can still function, but now it's like navigating down one-way streets where the options are more limited and it might take more turns to reach the destination.
ETH will not die from collapse. It will die a slow death. They are running out of narratives to pump it. ETH the asset will likely get some interest as a high beta to Bitcoin play (which is moronic but how the algos currently trade it) but unlikely we will see organic platform growth with the ICO, NFT and Defi bubbles all having popped.
They are between a rock and hard place in terms of staking withdrawals. If they unlock during a bear market the price will collapse but if the bear market is prolonged and they don't unlock they will lose all credibility.
There is also the looming question of regulation. Powerful forces want ETH to be regulated as a commodity by CFTC but the collapse of FTX has shone quite a light on the folks in congress who were being paid off by Sam and other shitcoin promoters to allow the regulatory arbitrage of proof of stake protocols to continue and thrive. It may take years for the SEC vs CFTC oversight debate to play out or it could come swiftly, who knows. Another potential outcome is both bodies would have some regulatory oversight over "crypto" or they create some new regulatory body (bureaucrats love more senseless bureaucracy). Although I would disagree with this, I could see some middle ground where ETH is declared a commodity but staked ETH a security. This seems ridiculous because of unnecessary complexity but that's precisely the type of thing bureaucrats do.
I very much hope this past boom was the final "crypto" bull run. I don't expect it all to go away. Amongst 8 billion people there will be any number of millions of fools, scammers, traders, arbitragers, technologists who will keep the system alive but without the oxygen of mass attention and new entrants the fire is unlikely to spread. Hopefully.
That's my 2 sats.
Happy stacking!
GR
@jb55 just gave a shout out to Stacker News as an incredible product that inspired the idea of adding zaps to Damus