So I have a friend who I went to college with and i've stayed in contact with him for the last decade and we're still friends, we were just at our other buddies place having a little pow wow and my buddy who was really into the crypto mining back in 2013 was telling us of his wild mining stories for ETH and XRP. For ETH he was parternered with this other dude that I rushed Pike with (didn't end up joining lol but I did get a bid.) Anyways long story short the kid that I rushed pike with made a bone head move and was convinced that these shitty miners were going to work like a few months before the mining difficulty was going up. They had this operation going on in a residential home and they ended up blowing a transformer. That caused the local energy authority to start looking into what they're doing & they were questioned a bit but eventually it subsided and they were gooddddddddd untilllll it happened again and the power company was trying to make them pay for it. He said the energy bill was already so high he ended up using a lot of the ETH he mined to pay for his half. The other dude who rushed Pike with me ended up taking short term loans to cover that and he kept all his ETH. Apparently that dude has like 200 million in gold my buddy said and a shit ton of land in Colorado now. He was a bit bitter on how he ended up doing really well but not nearly as well off as he should be compared to many of his other friends who were mining crypto as well.

The other story on his XRP mining was also pretty wild. He had this Mac book pro laptop that he was using with a bunch of Virtual Servers and had it running on his desk 24/7- he left it there and never moved it. One day he said the thing literally burst into flames in his room and he was so pissed becasue he didn't back up his wallets and all of the XRP he was mining was on the laptop. Once this all happened Apple reached out to him and he had multiple phone calls with like an engineeringn team he said that convinced my bud to sign all these papers and send Apple back the laptop in exchange for a brand new laptop that was even better, he took it. After all that he realized his mistake and that he might have been able to recover his lost XRP. he said that in 2017 when XRP went to $3 he would have had 500k!

When he told me these stories I literally had flash backs about him bitching about the other pike dude because I remember being in the library in college studying for Accounting and he kept saying how much of an idiot that dude was lmao. Its crazy. I knew my buddy was really smart you know he always talked about these wild server rooms he was working on but he never went into detail with me. I helped him cheat in accounting too lmao I should have got some coins for that or something!!! lmao. Crazy stories from one of my good buds. He is currently just chilling with a brand new R8 &  just traveling and working as a coder. Anyways, I thought you all would enjoy the stories I just finally had a momemt to jot them down

Does anyone else have any good mining stories? I would particually like to hear about some Bitcoin mining stories