What happened to the guy that got permanent brain damage from mining a few years

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Quote from: ShamrockHannah on September 04, 2015, 05:26:28 PM

Quote from: odolvlobo on September 04, 2015, 04:53:16 PM

He should consider himself lucky. This guy died from playing World of Warcraft: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2977817/Video-game-fan-coughs-blood-drops-dead-Shanghai-internet-caf-playing-World-Warcraft-straight-19-hours.html

I don't suppose you know what the autopsy reports said do ya? I'm curious. Obviously he must have been severely I'll anyway coz there's no link between having and coughing up blood...
Strange

I thought that guy died from a blood clot in his leg, from sitting still for so many hours every day. Maybe that was a different guy though.

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Quote from: odolvlobo on September 04, 2015, 04:53:16 PM

He should consider himself lucky. This guy died from playing World of Warcraft: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2977817/Video-game-fan-coughs-blood-drops-dead-Shanghai-internet-caf-playing-World-Warcraft-straight-19-hours.html

I don't suppose you know what the autopsy reports said do ya? I'm curious. Obviously he must have been severely I'll anyway coz there's no link between having and coughing up blood...
Strange

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Quote from: mallard on September 04, 2015, 05:20:48 PM

Quote from: adamstgBit on September 04, 2015, 03:59:59 PM

Quote from: unamis76 on September 04, 2015, 08:50:48 AM

This was surprising, never read about this... Also curious about what he's up to now. Probably mining Bitcoin again Cheesy

Also very curious to know what kind of temperatures his room was in...

anything over 100 with no wind is getting dangerous for long periods

not that hard to heat a room >100

That's 37C Shocked

I don't think I've ever been somewhere that hot in my life, and I use a computer with AMD components.

Hah, damn. Here in TX that's just called June.

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Quote from: adamstgBit on September 04, 2015, 03:59:59 PM

Quote from: unamis76 on September 04, 2015, 08:50:48 AM

This was surprising, never read about this... Also curious about what he's up to now. Probably mining Bitcoin again Cheesy

Also very curious to know what kind of temperatures his room was in...

anything over 100 with no wind is getting dangerous for long periods

not that hard to heat a room >100

That's 37C Shocked

I don't think I've ever been somewhere that hot in my life, and I use a computer with AMD components.

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He should consider himself lucky. This guy died from playing World of Warcraft: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2977817/Video-game-fan-coughs-blood-drops-dead-Shanghai-internet-caf-playing-World-Warcraft-straight-19-hours.html

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Quote from: unamis76 on September 04, 2015, 08:50:48 AM

This was surprising, never read about this... Also curious about what he's up to now. Probably mining Bitcoin again Cheesy

Also very curious to know what kind of temperatures his room was in...

anything over 100 with no wind is getting dangerous for long periods

not that hard to heat a room >100

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Sad story, but I do believe he was a bit hasty in abandoning mining Bitcoins.

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And after all this, I am no longer going to do any bitcoin mining. I will probably sell my mining rigs, or maybe find some other purpose for them. But they definitely won’t be on at full load 24/7 like I used to have them, even though I have a good AC unit in my room.

There were many other options available, he could have moved the machines to a different room, or even in a garage if one were available. With proper airflow, video cards can survive much higher ambient temperatures than is safe for humans over long duration's. He could have even left just his computer with one video card going in his room, but just to quit completely seems a bit extreme.

Maybe it is like when you eat something and later you get sick. Even if your sickness was not directly related, say you had the flu coming on to begin with, the food still triggers that associate later on and you will tend to avoid it in the future.

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billions of people have permanent brain damage from using fiat money

they TRUST fiat money, banks and governments, isn't that terrible? Grin

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I remember the story from when it first came out. I also wonder what the guy is doing right now.

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Quote from: Remember remember the 5th of November on September 04, 2015, 07:51:16 AM

...a few years ago?

http://www.belial.pt/permanent-brain-damage-from-bitcoin-mining

I have stayed speechless to this story! Cheesy

I mean, this is amazing. I have joined Bitcoin much later, so I never had a chance to read about this.

It would be too bad if he has quit Bitcoin all together after his strange experience. This story deserves to be in the history books one day, just next to the Laszlo buying pizza for 10,000 BTCs.

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This was surprising, never read about this... Also curious about what he's up to now. Probably mining Bitcoin again Cheesy

Also very curious to know what kind of temperatures his room was in...

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...a few years ago?

http://www.belial.pt/permanent-brain-damage-from-bitcoin-mining

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