The Whisper of The Coins

One fine day in 2017, I had my first ever Ryzen based PC with a radeon RX 480 8 GB GPU. The GPU came defective, and in the end I sell it cheaply and replace it with an RX 580 8 GB.

The seller asked me “What are you going to do with it, bro, gaming or mining?”

“Gaming, of course,” I answered, “but pray tell, how do you do mining with the GPU?”

“Hehehe, mining bitcoin and such, or etherium, or monero.”

“Now that’s interesting!”

And thus begin my foray into cryptocurrency mining. First the single RX 580 8 GB, then adding RX 470 4GB, then two more RX 460 4GB.

To today, with total of 10 rigs consisting of 8 PCs, one laptop, and one HTPC, consuming around 4200 watt total, and total home electricity usage is around 4600 watt. With the rise of cryptocurrency prices, cryptocurrency minings have been a total boon for me. Since 2021, the passive income I get from minings sometimes exceed my day job income. Making me thinking of quitting my job altogether and focusing on my son.

But the dilemma is the fact that quitting means I would lose all the benefits attached to the job. The healthcare, the dental; especially the meager subsidies for my son’s therapies.

But quitting and selling my house in my current place would mean I can go back to my father’s place and finally work on that vacant piece of land, maybe finally make a dormitory on it. Continuing my mining activities while getting new stream of incomes from renters.

Oh the options. What should one do?