Nope, I have definitely NOT made the money back.
But, I have been enjoying the tinkering, keeping the miners going, learning a lot, communicating with some knowledgeable people here.
But, I did get the wife on board when I told her to go do her Christmas shopping with computer generated cash. That was a mistake. LOL.
It's crazy but this venture into mining helped me score an A in my MBA Econ class. Basically, whenever short on examples from my career, I would just use BTC mining for applying concepts, and it worked out great! Over 14 years investing in stocks and it was never "fun" the way this is, and the people are fun to chat with, and I learned a ton about hardware and networking. Not to mention, the mining equip is always a good conversation piece when friends stop over.
My guess is that the original post probably summed up things for a lot of people. I too am addicted to hardware and have infected 3 other people. Now I get instant messages all day from them 'how do I do this? 'whats this mean?' they are friends so its fun.
I've got one friend who wanted to be infected, but his wife was too skeptical lol... I could just tell she ain't gonna let him go there with the dollars. He'd ask a question, she'd give him "the look"
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