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I'm going to explain my life, and vent, and try to get support from this great community, I'm not begging but if you're willing to help me then I'm forever in your debt. Just trying to figure out where to go from here.

So here goes nothing.

So I have been just fascinated by bitcoin and all altcoins, I have bought and hodl, and tried to pin the market, doing so pretty well.
It been a lifesaver because I am 17, I want to move out, but it's so much more then that.

I've lived with a drug addict mother for years now and the relationship has just deteriorated so much, I don't have a dad. No family, kind of all on my own.
I am worried everyday I'm going to be thrown out.
On top of balancing school with a minimum wage job, I still don't have enough money to move out, until I found bitcoin.

I loved being able to mine and help the community grow by pouring my fiat into something amazing, not only that but I was making enough to almost be able to move out on my own. Steady 700-1000$ with my job and bitcoin. Everything was great.

Me and my mom have been fighting so much, just last week I was homeless for a while because I got kicked out, had to sleep over at my girlfriends and salvation army...Great right? Just more motivation to make a little more money so I can support myself, started to get greedy I guess.
Well I saw on ebay people marking up dogecoin and bitcoin 200%-300% and was shocked. I thought it would be a great way to make some cash.
Well it wasn't I got scammed just like alot of people and now I've lost about 500$+ that would have helped me get my first scrypt miner.
That would help me make about 700$ a month, I would be able to move out and start supporting myself. Guess I shouldn't of went back to the evil corperations of paypal and ebay? Amirite? :/ I got scammed. My fault.
(Proof)
https://i.imgur.com/bLT0VOQ.png https://i.imgur.com/9kyMzF3.png
I have just a few months before I turn 18 and my mom can legally kick me out, plus senior year, plus keeping my job.
Can't really call CPS either, been there and done that and it just made things worse...
I'm not making this up, I mean I know someone out there has it harder...but I've tried everything else, I don't know what else to do.
I'm trying so hard, but nothing seems to work, maybe it's my depression? Maybe I'm just not doing it right.

I know alot of people have become really wealthy off of bitcoin, and there are already so many posts about "I have cancer" and this and that.
You can think this is all a bunch of nonsense, but some peoples lives are just really shitty. Sometimes I want to just end it all...
If you are one of those people who have made thousands of dollars, would it be too much to ask that you could help me out, not only that but help out the community too, I would be helping altcoins and bitcoin with my miner, not only that but society as a whole.
I've sold everything I hold near to me besides my computer and phone, since it's the only thing I can really see myself making money with.
I've got about 1500$ right now, but for a profitable miner that will support me, I need about 2400$ :/.
I can do web design, I can make videos, do 3D animation, voice work. I will try to work for a donation.
I think I'm talented, I love technology, I love coding and web design, I want to be able to contribute, but I can't do that living on the streets.
I just want to follow something in life, I think cryptocurrency can change the world and the economy, I want to be a part of it.
So please, I'm asking the bitcoin community as a whole, right now more then I've ever needed someone, for their thoughts, anything to help.
If you do want to donate my address is : adress removed  Just putting my address out there like everyone else.
Thank you for reading, and taking the time to care not just clicking the back button.

buy Mooncoin and hold FFS

and remember to celebrate the anniversary of the moon landing :)

also tell your mum your a Mooncoin hoarder and your soon to be filthy rich

SpaceX Nasa and NSA are all onboard  :D

So should I trade the last 100k of dogecoin I have for mooncoin? Anyone else think this is a good idea?

lol i traded my 100k doge when for 200 dollars when it was really high, funny coz i only mined for like half a day, gotta love how all this works.

I just multipool it then i hold it until its worth something if its not then nothing is lost, i havent invested a penny into all this, i had a gpu i used for gaming (7970/740KH) so i literaly made about now $300 out of thin air since i dont pay for my electric bills.

Just found this, https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FoOFruqJ.png&t=536&c=BWdCHR_5AbhvRg

That's awesome.
I don't have enough money to build a miner of my own...you know. Hence this post..........yea.
Plus I bought all my doge when it was right at the top of the bubble. Lost even more money. Yup.

that's fake, also they are implementing a software update that will help with the mining reward

Sorry to hear about your troubles man. That sucks, for real. But honestly, I don't think buying a $2000 miner with the last of your savings is a good idea.

Why don't you save that money to move out on your own? Find a job, and speculate in crypto coins on the side. Not many people are making a living off cryptocurrency yet.

Why not? If I can get a good 2mh hashrate, I can mine alot of coins, pulling in about 500-700$ according to wheretomine.com?
I know bitcoin miners are worthless unless you have thousands, but scrypt looks promising.
I already have a job, that I hate and barely make 300$ a month. Minimum wage is useless. Thanks for the support.

http://btcinvest.net/bitcoin-mining-profit-calculator-v1.php?diff=908350862.43702&dcosts=1300&diff_mincrease=30&blpbtc=25&dhsmhs=200000&diff_mincreasedecrease=5&btcusd=1000&dpowcon=360&btcusd_mincrease=1&pcost=0.11&calcweeks=32&dleadtime=0&action=calc

If I were to snipe a 200GH bitcoin miner and solo mine, wouldn't that be profitable?

I was going to do exactly the same quote from 1st and last §.

The only sure thing about this story is that it's pathetic in either way.

Fuck you. These aren't lies. This is all real truth that I took time to fucking type out and put out there. You're an asshole.
Seriously considering killing myself and you just want to fucking call me a liar. AND WHEN THE HELL HAVE I EVER SAID ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE.
I'VE NEVER RECEIVED ANYTHING FROM ANYONE ON THIS SITE. I guess posting here was a mistake...Sorry.

I'm not begging. I'm asking the rich fuckers to help a depressed kid out and maybe save a life with a few hundred that I lost....and even then I'm sure that won't happen.
Fuck...I came here for the support. This is my last resort. I'm asking the community to help me out.

I listed what I can do. It's not begging, I'm offering some type of service if someone needs it. Thanks for badmouthing a kid about to get kicked out of his house and lose everything. Thanks.

Yeah, like your own indeed:


If you want to do web design, make a portfolio, a website and start advertising for your services. It's called marketing.

And if you have just found out that life is unfair, then welcome to the real world. Irony will hardly change this.

Cheers

PS: when I was 17 back in 1997, I made a website for a teacher and I got scammed. Then I made another one with a fellow student for my high school, and never got a penny for it, although they kept using it as their official website for 4 more years after we left the school. Then I founded my own company, making real contracts and I started getting paid for my work. We all learn it the hard way at some point.

I'm sorry for what I said. I'm just sick of being called a liar, I'm pouring my heart out, all truth. Hard at is may be to believe.
You made some vaild points, begging won't get me anywhere, but I just don't know what to do anymore.
I made a portfolio... http://hunterraines.cloudvent.net
Doesn't even matter. I'm sorry I wasted my time.

Sorry for any hard times you have.


Best advice from me though is focus on your education , you're still a kid and have a long future ahead of you.  Don't worry so much about making money right now or how you will make money right now.  Focus on how you will attend classes in college and get a good education so later you have a good job making good money.

You don't have kids to feed, you dont have morgages to pay, you dont have the stresses of a life long career , you dont have old age kicking in with health problems.  Whatever you think youre going through right now its not THAT bad,  focus on education and making the future better.

Thank you for being one of the few to offer something supportive...
I've been looking into scholarships, but most I apply for someone is out there better.
I'm just an average 3.0 joe. Besides I don't see college as useful for the tech industry, why pay 100k for stuff I can learn online for free.
Rather buy a bunch of dev accounts and design apps and games. Bitcoin mobile wallets heh.

Thank you for being one of the few to say something nice.

Edit: Omg, someone just donated a dollar. Thank you. Whoever was kind enough to do that thank you. First donation I've ever recived, made me smile to see it.
I'm sorry if I'm so emotional but I can't help it...I'm stressed.

 

Valid point, the tech industry is one of those  industries where you can still make it without a college degree.  A college degree certainly helps in more ways than one, but you can still learn stuff on your own and prove to people that you know your stuff.

Actually it does, unless you are a liar? You said you weren't begging, bur rather offering services for money.

Are you begging?
Or are you not?

If not, and you are indeed proposing web design services in exchange, you need to link to your portfolio so people can see what to expect from your competences.

Currently, all* of your works in your portfolio are links to 404s. Additionally there is a spelling error in a title, "SKILS" vs "SKILLS". You may say that English is not your mother tongue (it isn't mine either FWIW) but you will probably not find professional customers in the UK until you get these problems fixed.

You may find my posts unsupportive, yet they are sincere and try to be useful. You may continue to call me names, if it helps you, so be it. You will probably find more supportive members below, maybe they'll even call me names as well.

The thing is, given what I've been through in my own life, I have noticed there were a lot of people who were just sorry for me. And there was one who wasn't sorry at all, saying I had to face it and move forward. He's the one who ended up helping me the most.

* edit: actually most of them. Some lead to a screenshot.

I'm actually starting to see some really nice people reach out to me.....and it makes me so happy.
I came here as a last resort but have gotten a few dollar donations and even a small time job offer.

This is what I wanted to come of this post, not a 100 free BTC. I'm not a scammer. Just a kid down on his luck, at the end of his rope.

Thank you so much to those who took the time to message me. You have no idea....just thank you.

I'm sorry for calling you names, just I can't take being called I liar when I am pouring out my heart on here. This is a much more helpful response thank you. I didn't even catch the spelling error! I know my projects won't show, I've been busy with school and the portfolio was just kind of a work in progress on the side. Thank you though, really. It's just irritating being called a liar and a scammer when all I'm trying to do is get support one way or another.

The difficulty is that nobody cares. If they tried, they would quickly burn themselves out.

What is the Monkeysphere? (http://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html)

Even if we did have the capacity to care, it would be difficult (but probably not impossible) to vet all of the sob stories. Bitcoin is a game-changer. Suddenly, you can irreversibly transfer value in minutes. People who don't react with a "this is probably a scam" attitude are setting themselves up to lose a lot of money.

I gather that many Bitcoin enthusiasts are not very rich at all. They spend them almost as fast as they acquire them. I myself made low thousands because I was not able to sell as the price climbed 1000% in November (paper wallets FTW).

I can tell you that a few thousand dollars won't last long if you have to pay rent. One rule of thumb I heard is that rent should not exceed about 30% if income. The corollary is that people spend a lot of their income on rent (or transportation).

I wonder if Tiago Faia knows this Hunter Raines ?  Should we ask him what He (or She) thinks of your portfolio?   It looks like you have done some of the same work!!! 

http://faiadesign.com.pt/portfolio_websites.shtml

Whoever you are,  spend time doing productive work please.  If you work at it as hard as you do begging you will do quite well.

Dude you already are doing professional web design for top tier companies.  Surely they pay you well...?


http://www.thewebkitchen.co.uk/websitedesign/   

I see you did some work for them.    Now, can you lend me some money please?

Pathetic liar....

I wish you would think before you were so quick to judge, Tiogo Faia is one of my idols in web design, I haven't linked to any of his projects they're all 404, I just used them as placeholders because Tiago is someone who has really crafted some cool jquery concepts into his work.

I haven't been able to even publish a final portfolio, that was something I was in progress of. God damn.

THEY'RE PLACEHOLDERS, FUCK. TIAGO IS ONE OF MY WEBDESIGN IDOLS. IT'S NOT EVEN A PUBLIC DOMAIN. REALLY?

I think you should get a job, work hard, save some money for your script miner.

I starting working at a bakery when I was 16, now I cook at one of the top restaurants in North America. I pay for rent, phone bill and internet, transportation and have money left over for whatever I want.

This is a part of life and growing up, you are 18 and whether you were/are addicted to drugs or not, you still have the ability to do whatever you want in life. I smoke weed from time to time but I still have to manage my money, you just need to sort out what your priorities are.

As harsh as it is, maybe being out on the street would be that wake-up call where you make that choice. I spent the last 4.5 years working around Australia and New Zealand backpacking and working along the way, even ended up homeless a couple times cause I didn't have enough money.

If your homeless in another country your basically fucked, you cant go on benefits

Woah haha, I don't do drugs my mom does. Which is why she's kinda insane.
Thank you, It's just been hard recently, I know someone out there has to have it 40x worse.

OP hopefully things will get better for you soon. I won't tell you how you should spend your money; that's your decision to make, just make sure you fully evaluate your circumstances.

... I'm not defending anyone's behavior on this thread, but please don't take it personal if/when you're looked at as a scam. Look at from everyone else's point of view.

And to those who have absolutely no tact: Are you not able to express your opinion without name calling? Sometimes I feel like I'm in elementary school! Granted, the majority of posts asking for coins are obvious scams, but some could be genuine... of course we have people so eager to identify a scam they're making accusations based on nothingness.

I see your point, just hurts to hear liar and scam, when I'm being 100% honest about things in my life that I'm grieving and worrying about.
It's frustrating. But I've revised my orginal post to hint less towards donations and more towards support and job offers etc.

Thank you.

Do yourself a favor.  Do not put the work of other designers, idols or not, into YOUR portfolio (as placeholders) and put it out there looking for work!!!!  Why don't you put the websites YOU designed into YOUR portfolio in those places you are holding instead of the work of Tiago Faia!
You had your chance and you blew it sir. 

Learn from your mistake and you may get a job. As it was, I was looking at what I thought was your work to see if I could pay you to work on my e-commerce website.  I am angry that I wasted my time evaluating what I thought was your work and found that it was not anything of the sort. 

On an aside, I would never hire someone to work for me that speaks the way you do in your postings.  Clean up your act and your language you will definitely fare better.  Good bye.

*sigh* It's fine, it's usually my luck anyway, I always fuck things up somehow, I wasn't trying to get a job in the begining, was just looking for support then I dug up my old portfolio...that I never finished. I have some actual work of mine lying around on a flashdrive somewhere, but I haven't had the time...

I'm sorry I mislead you. This is why I want to give up though, I always manage to make myself look bad, one way or another.
One misunderstanding, and another and another...with family and friends. Maybe it's the mirrors I broke as a kid.

I wasn't trying to get a job as honestly I don't know if I can hold a house right now, I was looking for support because I could get thrown out any day now and I was trying to get donations, but that didn't fare well so I backed off of that and just kind of turned this into a venting post, but I'm giving up now. I'm sorry for wasting everyone time. Thank you for the ones that cared enough to PM me....

You didn't waste anyone's time. We chose to click on your thread, we chose to respond to it. If it were such a waste of time, you wouldn't have been entertained. And don't give up on your ambitions so quickly. Okay, maybe give up here, but not in general.

So what type of miner were you looking to get anyways?

I'm torn between a scrypt miner at about 1.9-2.5 MH, scrypt mining, I could easily get into alot of altcoins, and get into the booms quickly by mining bulk. For example if I would of had one a month ago, could of gotten alot of dogecoin and sold when it peaked.

Or a 200GH bitcoin miner, but I'm so convinced that difficulty is rising so quickly by the time I would be able to get it running (about a month from now if I work really hard to gather funds) It would be usless and not able to profit.

Or am I just being stupid? Do I have to spend 20k just to have a chance at mining?

a few of us rich investors and donaters do look for good causes. the only problem is that you do not seem to want to help yourself.

you say you earn under $300 a month = $75 a week = 10 hours or less per week.

you moan that you only make this amount yet you cannot be bothered to improve your circumstances


you say you were not looking for large donations, but i have to make this entirely clear to you right now:
rent, utility bills, food and transport to work average out as well over $1000 a month. currently you live with your mother, so you do not see the true costs of living on your own. and any small donation of pennies wont help you move out.

i suggest you get a job that is more then 2 hours a day for 5 days a week / or 2 days of 5 hours (whatever your circumstance is). and work more hours. this way for 1. your earning more 2.your not sat in your mothers basement depressing yourself for as much of the day as you currently are.

if you truly want out of your situation you need to do 5 hours a day minimum. even if you have school/college doing an evening job of 5pm to 10pm is possible. plus your not at home for those hours, which would be beneficial to your mental health. also when you do get a place of your own. being home alone can be boring, so working can give you the mental stimulation, social expereince and prevent boredom.

and lastly  if you moan that a job would leave you with no social life, then you personally do not have the true energy and desire to change your circumstances, and as such asking other people to waste their energy on you is hypocritical.

PS. i too was looking to see if there were any job offerings i could give you. but looking at the facts about your so called website design experience. im not now

OP, franky1 made a few valid points here...

I see your point, but you do not understand I am balancing as much of my time with school and my job as I can, I take 4-6 hour shifts whenever they're available, but I'm also taking an AP course along with 3 other classes. Most of my time is doing homework (It's what I'm doing right now) Sometime I'm up till 4am because I had to work and I have homework...please don't assume I don't try. Once I graduate if I could just build up 2k to put down to buy 60 days to earn more I would be happy. It's not that I'm not trying, I'm doing all I can, I don't want to be around my mother anymore, the anxiety she puts on me makes me so depressed and lethargic I can barley get anything done.
I have barely any social life...at all. My girlfriend can only see me at school and when she comes by where I work.

Thanks for that suggestion though, anything else you wanna suggest since I'm already working 5 hours. most of the time 6...

and thanks...If you just ignore the mockup portfolio and maybe give me a little bit of time to try to find my original work designs/tutorials.

P.S. : My mom is insane, she's stolen money from me before for drugs, wasn't even able to get it back due to her threatening to take my stuff, apparently in California there is a law where even when you're 17 and have a job and pay for things, they still belong to your guardian....so I have nothing. Even my bitcoins on my computer are hers because my laptop isn't mine...

I don't have time to get more hours....I'm already overstressed....So what would you suggest if I have to leave home with nothing???

Nah, I don't think you have to spend 20k to realize some gain with mining. But it's definitely too late to jump onto the bitcoin bandwagon, but lots of people fare well mining and trading alt coins. 2.5MH is still relatively low, but depending on what you mine and whether you decide actively trade, the potential to realize some gain isn't far fetched.

So I take it you haven't actually purchased any mining equipment yet?

Nope, been saving since January, I had enough at one point, but I kept pushing to save more for a better rig, then I lost a decent sum of it.
Oh well.....

So I'm asking probing questions about your potential mining equipment for a reason. There are some of us who may not feel comfortable donating coins, don't need your services, or whatever - but we may have some extra equipment lying around that we'd be willing to give away for offer at a lower cost. You never know... you say you used to mine, surely have some left over hardware, right?

It was just to learn the commands, I was using my macbook's GPU on a linux dis, so I don't really have anything to offer but some cash, or BTC if you so wish.  The macbook wouldn't do well, I got about 10 satoshis, 1 dogecoin, and 10 USD-E coins out of it. 10kh isn't much to work with but I know how to setup rigs now.

If I could get something useful/profitable for 1500$-2000$ I would be so greatful you have no clue.

Well, keep us posted on your hardware list and what you decide to do. When I was putting my wishlist together, a member offered (I didn't ask, of course) me 3 hard drives he had lying around, saving me the cost. I have some extra stuff I don't need at the moment, and it's only fair if I pass the kind act on.

I'm fairly good with electronics, I was thinking I might just build my own rig.
I don't think I would have to solder anything right? Just ribbon connections? and ports and such,
I just fixed my girlfriends broken lcd screen, that was easy in my book.

Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 3GB GDDR5 w/ Boost (Go for about 360$ each, I could just buy  two of those, and try to mine with a lower KH, when I make more money buy more GPUs?
Lepa G1600-MA 1600 Watt power supply
Axiomtek FAB-113 8x PCIe PICMG backplane
Commell FS-A72 Single Board Computer PICMG 1.3
Intel Celeron E1200 Dual-Core 1.6 Ghz CPU
2 GB DDR3 SDRAM

You're asking me? How the hell should I know?! ;)  So you're looking at least $350 for a PSU, eh? Well, since you're good with electronics, I have two 2000w server PSUs and I'd be willing to give you one if you think you have enough confidence to configure for your use.

That would be amazing.

You say that now. Research how to convert those damn things and tell me if you still feel the same, lol. And the last thing I need is for you to burn the house down or shock yourself. If you were buying, I'd assume you knew what you were getting into. But since I offered, I want to be able to give to you without having to worry about your soldering skills.

Could you PM me with some model info, seems like it would at most be a port conversion issue.

I'm not sure who I dislike the most; beggars, or the torrent of arrogant people that land on those threads...

IMO this thread is actually rather educational for OP.

Besides, who exactly here is "making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption"? ('arrogance', Webster's Dictionary)

...besides these assholes who copy & paste dictionary of course ;D

I fail to see arrogance here, and I even think OP was satisfied with at least some of the advice given here.

I started doing the research and got excited about converting it, but the fear of shocking myself got the best of me. I think there's someone on this forum that's selling custom made connectors for it.

Here's an eBay link.  It's a Delta DPS 2000BB A PSU (http://www.ebay.com/itm/DELTA-DPS-2000BB-A-2000W-PSU-with-IBM-PN-FRU-39Y7360-/140969567388?pt=US_Server_Power_Supplies&hash=item20d270e49c)  No I didn't pay that much for it, this advertisement is really overpriced, or are costs going up that quick?!

At any rate... happy mining!!!

+1

Glad it turned out well this time :)

Yeah I like this thread, good read.

I find myself never giving to beggars on the street but I have given a few people dollar's to people who either seem really stuck or are trying to change their life. I remember a couple weeks ago there was a homeless guy hanging outside a 7-11 and he was singing and welcoming everyone to 7-11 and asking for any help. I gave him a dollar and he thanked me a couple times for my generosity. He got a lot of help from so many people, maybe he was all bull but people feel good about helping others.

Yea, things are going alot better now, I just was in such a depressed mood, I needed input from the community, I got my miner finally, just waiting on it from Singapore.
 Adding another GPU after I make my first 350 :)

Yay! :)

Sometimes it helps to just put it out there, you know :)  let me know if you're still interested in that PSU.

Believe it or not, the same hour when I was kind of turning down that poor OP here, I went to the station to buy something an a girl outside seemed totally lost, and she was missing a few bucks to take a cab to her destination. I didn't want to give here anything in the first place, besides advice -- remember I'm arrogant ;D

In the end, she ended up crying, and I just gave her 5€ so that she could take her cab. I tried to cheer her up and she seemed so relieved, I wonder how long she had been staying there. I'm not heartless and the monkey theory that someone mentioned here is quite true.

And who knows, maybe I even ended up giving OP a small donation ;)