This manual was produced by Dennis Lee for "Best manual for mining and installation" contest

Basically, in order to start using the 50BTC.com mining pool, you can just follow the instructions here: .
However, if you still can’t set up, here is the detailed instruction.

Before you start mining...

Get a bitcoin wallet (to get a bitcoin address). Recommended client is the bitcoin-qt client you can download from the official website. Here is a quite detailed instruction for all systems. However, while the bitcoin-qt client contribute to a healthy P2P network, the block chain can take quite a long time to finish downloading. If you just want a address, you can use the eWallet services.

Also, sign up at the 50btc pool with your email address.

Determine whether use CPU or GPU to mine: In case you have good graphics card (AMD — 4xxx and up, NVidia — 8xxx and up, use GPU). Otherwise, you only have the choice of CPU.

To check your graphics card model, right click "My Computer" or "Computer" icon on your desktop (for Windows), click "manage", and then in the window opened click "device manager" and look under the "graphics adapter" section.

For mac users click on the apple at the top left corner and then "about this mac". This will give you your graphics card model.

Linux users... well I believe you already knows.

CPU mining:

CPU mining is very uneffective and it have a very slow hashrate. However, if you just want to utilise every part of your machine to mining, to have a taste of what mining is like, or you don’t have a graphics card good enough for mining, follow the instructions below.

Windows:

1. Download this. Or go to here and click on the Windows logo (it will include the latest version of Ufasoft bitcoin-miner). Install it.
2. Create a text file anywhere you want (to run the command easier and not needing to type in the command every time).

Source: 50btc.com