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How to pool mine BBQCoin (BQC)?

Pool Mining BBQCoin is similar to coins like Litecoin which use Scrypt algorithm. When newcomers to mining find no tutorials of BBQCoin mining they are disheartened. So I thought of coming up with this post. Why should I mine BBQCoin? There are still a lot of people who missed the Bitcoin boom and its already too late for them to mine with their GPU because Bitcoin miners have come up with specific hardware like ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Chip) and Bitcoin Erupters which gives them a cutting edge over GPU in terms of processing / hashing power. What makes BBQCoin different from Bitcoin is it uses Scrypt algorithm, which is different from SHA-256 algorithm of Bitcoin. That’s another reason why Litecoin raised to fame. So it means you can basically mine with your high end graphics card and make reasonable profit without investing much in ASICs which are of no use other than mining. At present level of difficulty (1.97 for BBQCoin compared to 609482679 of Bitcoin while...