Congratulations to the Dash community, over the past 3 years there has great progress. I check in on Dash periodically and it is one of the few communities that has delivered. While the price is exciting, of real interest is the technology that is being built.
Sadly there seems to still be people that try to twist what happened at the beginning. So like someone else that recently posted I thought I would admit to my early involvement with Dash. I recently stumbled upon one of my old empty Xcoin wallets so it seemed like a good time to show what it was like in the beginning.
Dash was easy to mine and anyone could have picked up a lot at the beginning, I know because I did. Though because my obsession was with mining I let this long term opportunity pass me by. I sold a lot to cover my Amazon bills, kept some for a bit and even had some masternodes for a while. So while this coin looked very promising the mining bug hit me again so I sold the rest a while back. I happily profited in the end but of course it is hard to not look back at what I could have had.
So yes, I was one of those Amazon miners that people complained about early on. Here are my January and February 2014 bills:
That buys a lot of hours of mining time, here is how many hours I racked up in January:
My peak was over 2000 hours of EC2 time across various instances on February 8th. That included various smaller instance types, not just the large cc2.8xlarge's. It fluctuated day by day because I was using Spot instances and sometimes was getting out bid so my instances would get terminated.
I could not find my original solo mining wallets as I moved those coins and deleted them but I did find one of my early ones. So for those wondering what mining got you back in the beginning here are a few snapshots of what I was getting:
So for those of you who bought coins from me early on, you’re welcome. It was fun. For those of you wondering about any truth to what the trolls say just remember their strongest tool is to mix a little bit of truth with a lot of speculation and lies.
Good luck to Dash, I hope to see many great things come from it and hopefully will be a masternode holder again in the future.