Bitcoins are getting exponentially harder to mine.
If you visit the hidden wiki (using tor) you can use them to buy drugs and the like, It's meant to be harder to trace bitcoins than a real currency. FC probably has enough to hire a hitman.
Here's an online miner if anyone wants to see what it is without having to install anything, but there are other programs which utilise your graphics card better
Generate Bitcoin - Bitcoin Plus
And here's a list of companies that accept bitcoins, not sure how up to date it is
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade
I doubt it's worth buying any new hardware to make money, seems most of the internet is a little late to the party.
also, lulz.
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