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OftenBen  ·  580 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ethereum blockchain slashes energy use with 'Merge' software upgrade

This is my ETH rig, there are many like it but this one is mine.

For about the last two years I've ran a small at home ETH mine that wound up totaling around 1.0 gh/s after all my expansions and maxing out my fuse box. Yesterday there were no PC fans spinning in my house for the first time ever since I bought it.

I had a good chunk of ETH saved up until my furnace broke in January and needed almost full replacement. As it stands, after cashing out a big chunk near the ATH price to pay for the furnace, I am just under breakeven.

AMA I guess?

I'm pretty earnestly looking into staking. I'm not going anywhere, my hoard isn't going anywhere, unforeseen financial trauma notwithstanding. Seems like the smart move for someone interested in the long term of ETH. Someone can feel free to tell me I'm wrong. Mainly in the crypto space these days I just DCA into BTC and ETH and try to listen to everything that insomniasexx has ever been a part of.

I will forever bear a deep regret that I made a choice to NOT covertly take (Steal) money from my parents to invest in bitcoin when it was pennies per. Maybe not being in such deep poverty might have helped my family. Then again, my parents may have just seen it as further evidence of liberal education defiling my right wing soul.

I will have both the resources AND the knowledge to capitalize on them when the next such opportunity presents itself, if it does.

Now to figure out the best way to get rid of all this extra hardware. Gave two of my closest friends $600 GPU upgrades over the winter, built a PC for one of my little brothers who actually wants to have something like a relationship with me. Have another scrap rig 3/4 of the way built, either for someone close at a deep discount or facebook marketplace at a fair market rate.