The begining

I began mining in January 2017, after my cousin would not shut up about this "new easy way of getting free money". I signed up to Minergate downloaded claymore miner and boom I was making profit.

Monero days

my first monero "paycheck"

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At minergate I mined monero(XMR), the what seemd so good for me at the time alternative for the GPU unminable bitcoin. I was mining when I was in school or when I was at my girlfriends place( roughly ~6 hours per day). I was amazed when I got my first 10€ in a month, I felt like the richest man in the world. I would continue mining till the begging of march. In the course of two months I got about 20€ from monero, enough to take my girlfriend out for cheesburgers and some cocktails. ![image]() *Last monero transaction to date*

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# What is Ethereum and Ethereum classic? I already saw ethereum when I began mining XMR, and it sounded kinda promising to me somehow. ![image]() *Minergate's UI*

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So again one day my cousin calls me saying "Yo, ditch XMR go mine ETH", and I switched to ETH(17€ per coin in early March). Again mining times were similiar. I didn't mine it for long, I switched to ETC soon because of the lower mining difficulty and *the possibilty that this 1€ coin will rise someday*. I mined ETC until I reached 28€,this time it was for my girlfriends birthday present(her birthday was in May). With both ETC and ETH I mined decred which was not a big easy money cryptocurrency(I mined a total of 5€).

The dark period aka WHY DIDNT I INVEST IN ETC😭

During the time mining ETC I was thinking of maybe investing 20€ into it. A simple rise to 10€ would be a almost a 1000% increase in value and it would mean my 20€ would become 220€. BUT I converted my ETC to € and never invested the money I ment to and the dark period began.
I stopped mining for about a month only to realize that I am a one big idiot. Even if I continued mining the increase in value ETC saw would benefit me a lot. But I said to myself:

what happened happened I have to move on.

Episode IV: The return of the miner

It was the 28th of May when I got back. The finals in school made it possible for me to dedicate myself to studying, which ment that my computer could mine 24/7(I didn't game on it etc.)
I also switched pools - Minergate's-block-discovery-rate was very very slow so I moved to ethermine and finally moved to Nanopool(because of their mobile app).
I also ditched the slow Decred and started mining SIA. SIA seems easier to mine and also more valuable 1000 SIA ~ 18€).
In almost a month of mining with my PC I've mined about 110€ of ETC, 20€ of SIA and I must say I am very happy with the money I made.

Nanopool's app for Android

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# Hardware My PC consists of a AMD FX-9370 processor(ditched mining on it because of low profit and **oh god the heat** and most importantly my Sapphire RX-480 Nitro+ OC 8GB Graphics card. I get about 25MH/s with it(because BIOS mods just won't work). I also ordered a Sapphire Nitro RX-580 which I still have not recieved because they are simply not in stock anywhere on the planet. ![image]() *RX 480*

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# Payouts For payouts I use the Changelly-Coinbase method I convert mined coins to BTC and then send them to coinbase from there the money goes into my bank account(I will post about Coinbase in the near future). # The future ![image]() I'm planning to build a dedicated 570 rig. The money I get from mining now will be invested into it.

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