Mining Cryptocurrency. The Beginning of the Beginning.

About three weeks ago, I had no idea what I was getting myself into.

I had no idea mining Cryptocurrency was a thing, and I had no idea I would be so obsessed and fully engaged in a new passion.

I was approached by a friend who told me to throw all of my money into Ethereum.

I told him I would read up on it, with the thought in my head that most people just use Cryptocurrency to purchase bad things on the internet. Oh dear, was I wrong...

I never knew there was an even better way to spend MORE time glued to my monitor...

I dug deep. And 15 days ago I purchased a minuscule amount of various coins, just so see if anything would move.

They did. All of them did.

It became real when I saw my ETH and Golem wallets' "USD" amount increase. That was all I needed to know what to do next.

17 days ago I learned that mining coins and altcoins was possible. I felt like I had missed the biggest opportunity to participate in future. Until I realized, this is the beginning of the end of the beginning. If I was going to have any chance to join in on this rise it would be now.

14 days ago I purchased equipment to build a ETH/Altcoin dual mining rig with 6x MSI GTX 1060's. All of the cards from a local computer store, and a bunch of old mining frames and boards from someone on Craigslist. His wife made him sell everything to fund their destination wedding! 0_0

The following days led to me finding as many decent GPU's as I could. I added a few to the team, 3 GTX 1070's, 1 280x, 1 Radeon 480 and 1 Radeon 580.

In total, there are 4 rigs with 3 cards each.

When I first tried assembling carts for my build, I was shocked to see almost everything I needed being sold out in almost every store I searched. This was a bit of a shocker, and it definitely opened my eyes to seeing that there are WAY more people involved in this than I could have ever imagined! Finding GPU riser cables that weren't coming from China was a task of its own!

Finally after everything was built and computing, I got my first earnings payout and I melted. THIS IS REAL. THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO NEED YOUR COMPUTING POWER ON THE INTERNET!

ETH estimated calculations

SIA estimated calculations

One 1070 3 card rig

All in all, I cannot talk to my friends about this because they all just call me crazy. Would anyone be interested in a weekly vlog? I need somewhere to talk about my new passion and Steemit seems to be the perfect outlet!