I was browsing YouTube one summer day back in 2019. I had just declared bankruptcy two years earlier. Nevertheless, I was browsing videos on credit card rewards. I was curious and wanted to learn more.

I came across a video by a YouTuber who goes by the name Graham Stephan. His video explained which credit cards in his opinion were the best for cashback rewards and free travel. I was intrigued by the video.

Being curious, I decided to search YouTube for “how to become a millionaire”. I found another Graham Stephan video where he gives his advise to become a millionaire. He suggested not selling your time for money. He also mentioned his personal favorite investment strategy which was real estate.

After watching the video, I thought to myself “what kind of idiot doesn’t want to be a millionaire?” From that day forward, I decided I wanted to buy a penthouse in a high-rise condominium building.

At the time, I didn’t have a lot of money. I was addicted to cigarettes and alcohol and smoked and drank a lot. Regardless, I gave a feeble attempt to follow his advise. I was working at a recycling factory and I was making DoorDash deliveries on my bicycle. I talked to my bank and they suggested I open up a Tax Free Savings Account or TFSA. I managed to contribute $25 a week into that investment account.

Throughout 2019, I continued to watch Stephan and other financial YouTube videos. I opened another TFSA with Wealthsimple and started buying REITs and index funds.

In November of 2019, my mother bought me a gaming PC. At first I thought I didn’t need a computer and asked her to invest the money in index funds. She refused this request and I got upset. As I was thinking about it, I realized I could buy a gaming PC and learn mining. So I took the computer and learned how to mine on Windows.

Then, the pandemic hit and I lost my job. I also decided delivering DoorDash wasn’t for me. I resumed studying web development. Granted, the entire time I was doing so, I was drinking quite a bit, which impacted my performance.

About after a month of that, the Canadian government announced Covid Emergency Relief Benefit (CERB). The government gave every Canadian $2,000 a month to whoever applied for it. It was only for people who made $5000 in 2019 or more, but a lot of people who didn’t make that ended up applying. The governments rational was people lost their jobs and they needed money.

At this point, now that I suddenly had a significantly higher income, I only drank more. I also started buying more expensive cigarettes. I also spent $4000 on travelling to other parts of Canada. I was guilty of increasing my spending after my income increased, something Stephan clearly states not to do in his videos.

In late 2020, I checked myself into a detox centre, I had done this several times throughout 2020. Each time I left the detox centre because I couldn’t smoke cigarettes and I wanted to smoke, so I left. I know, I shouldn’t have done that but I did. I took myself to a hospital emergency room later that year to get committed into a psychiatric unit and detox there. I was then referred to a treatment centre.

After being discharged, I went a day without drinking and then I started again. I somehow managed to put 0.2 ETH into an Aave account as well as stake some of the Ethereum I had on a staking pool. When Ethereum was minable, I managed to save a bit.

At this point my mother was sending me $40 a day. My grandmother left me an inheritance for me when she passed away. For a while, I managed to live with this $40 a day mean. This is probably the only reason why I didn’t sell my Ethereum earlier.

It was my turn to go to the treatment centre I was referred to. Unfortunately, this specific centre was not a good fit. I was not allowed to use my laptop there, just my phone. It has occurred to me after doing this several times that when I sober up, I become more eager to go and do web development. Since that treatment centre was too old fashioned, after a month I discharged myself. I began drinking again three months later.

Honestly, the only progress I made to becoming a millionaire that year was buying a second gaming computer as well as buying the parts for a eight GPU mining computer. I continued to mine Ethereum and as usual, as soon as I got any Ethereum, I would immediately sell it to go buy alcohol and marijuana.

By the middle of 2021, since I was not on CERB anymore, I started withdrawing funds from my TFSA to go buy more alcohol. At this point I was drinking a 40oz bottle of rum every day. I also sold my index funds and other stock just to fund my addiction.

In the rest of 2021, I asked my mother for Amazon gift cards (since she didn’t trust me with cash) to buy the rest of the parts I needed for the eight card mining rig, and in January 2022, since I have a medical condition impacting my fine motor skills, I asked my friend to build the rig. I learned HiveOS and began mining.

I decided to try a different treatment centre. I went to my mental health team and got an addiction counselor. She referred me to a facility that specialized in both mental health and addiction. I got the news I was accepted a few months later. I had to wait for eight months before it was my turn to get in.

I now had three mining computers and I kept buying GPUs. I knew mining was ending soon, but I read a post on BitcoinTalk which said I could sell my GPUs before the Ethereum merge happened. I decided to keep these cards however, because I get free electricity.

I probably don’t have to tell you what I did with the Ethereum. When I got it, I would sell it to go buy alcohol. This alcohol thing was seriously getting in the way of becoming a millionaire. Ethereum mining ended and at this point I took my Ether off Aave and the staking pool and drank it. At around the same time Ethereum mining ended so did the $40 from my mother.

It was around this time I started panhandling to pay for my beer and cigarettes. My situation was not good. I was getting into fights with other panhandlers and I got dirty looks from the people I solicited from.

This continued until mid-December 2022. The only assets I had after almost four years of deciding to become rich were my mining computers. Looking back, probably the only reason why I didn’t sell those computers was that I struggle with people pleasing. I didn’t want to sell my computers because I didn’t want to get less than what they worth. I struggle with standing my ground. I am glad I didn’t sell because the future of GPU mining is looking better now.

It was my turn to get into the other treatment centre. Because it is also a psychiatriac facility at the same time. I knew going in I would have no choice but to stay there. In the first month, I was on a locked unit. I could only go out for smoke breaks at certian times. I engaged in the program and within a month, I got moved to an unlocked unit.

The urge to “go code” hit me again. This treatment centre was more modern and they allowed laptops. I didn’t have much money, so I googled “free computer” and I found an organization that gives out subsidized laptops.

Not sure how I was going to pay for the laptop, I got an email from a crypto exchange that I thought stole some bitcoin I bought from them. They said they had liquidated my bitcoin and they wanted to give me the money. They sent it and I was able to buy the laptop.

After receiving the laptop I began coding. I learned Tailwind CSS and I created a website asking for help. I thought to myself I’m a pretty good writer, and I thought if the layout was nice and I published some good articles, there’s a chance someone will donate to me.

And that leads me to today. It has been three months in the treatment and I have six more to go. I am doing well here. I go to three groups a day and I also have time to work on my website. I still have those mining computers, however because I’m not at home to monitor them, buy building shut them off. I figure when I go to my new housing I could mine there.

My future is looking good. I continue to learn skills to remain sober. The doctor also put me on a medication that reduces cravings. I now can stop myself from drinking.

As for becoming a millionaire, all I have to do now is stop smoking. I continue to work on a website and I’m begging to form a plan to achieve my goal. I plan to use any of my donations to buy REITs and index funds again. And no, ‘m not going to sell them for beer money.

While I kind-of-sort-of been working on my millionaire goal for almost four years now, I only really started when I came to the treatment centre. I have achieved a lot more in the last three months out of the entire four years I have been at this. It’s been a struggle, but now I’m in the perfect place now to break my addiction to alcohol forever.

You have two options.

1: Wait until AFTER the ETH PoS merge. Wait until video card prices crash as miners go out of business then liquidate their rigs. Then buy cheap RTX 3060's for $200-250 each or RX 6800's for $300-400. With free power, you will probably make a 20%-50% per year return; then hopefully when the next GPU coin gold rush happens, you can make a 200-400% return in a year.

2: Buy video cards now and mine on them, hoping to sell them off right before the PoS merge. You're taking a risk with timing. However, PoS should take at least 6 months. Returns in today's market can be up to 300% at free power.

You can combine both these options as well. What I plan to do is mine for the next few months, liquidate, then buy back 3x as many cards after the PoS aftermath is over.

Switching over to a different coin after PoS will not work, because the resale value of your GPU will collapse overnight. You must liquidate before GPU prices crash!

Those days are long gone. Mine ERG, ETC, FLUX or the best coin for the hardware. Beware that after ETH PoS, all the ETH ASICs like the Innosilicon A10 / Bitmain E9 will be mining ETC/ZIL/MTP/QKC. Your GPU will be competing against ASICs which have no other choice, so expect to make 10x less revenue than you can these days.

BTW, folks who bought ETH ASICs today will be the bagholders if PoS happens in less than a year. Imagine the value of an Innosilicon A10 Pro 750Mh miner plummeting from $14k to just $2k. They'll never get their money back even if ETH is $5000!

Staking is much colder than mining, the requirement to stake coins for better profits feels almost impossible unless you have some thousands of dollars that you are ready to throw aside for staking, with 500$ worth of coin put into staking you won't make 1$ per day but with a single GPU you will make a bit more, almost 2$ per day.

That is true.
But the OP could also have changed the OPEN description of the title. This can be misleading, although it only takes a little reading to realize that the campaign is paused/finished.

Here's a tip for the OP, change the OPEN expression of the title. 

Your nick fits you well, though I'm not sure about the "Coder" part.

Btw, I see you've been in a snooze for the past two years.  

I grew up in NYC I have seen lots of needlers the guys are thieves the girls are street walkers. All are sick fucks filled with despair. 

The problem is you do not see the drug addict as mentally ill.

Everyone that sees the drug addict as a piece of worthless shit is also mentally ill.

This will never be solved because there are simply too many people that think there is choice involved in being a drug addict .

The fact is what sane person would choose to be a junkie. The answer is none.

the fact is if you don't see that as a very simple truth you are mentally ill and in a state of denial.

So put it in your pipe and smoke it. 

Seriously there will always be junkies and drunks and gamblers and cheap streetwalking hoes.

Now as Dennis Miller used to say "I found a job worse than a crack whore. Assistant crack whore."

What girl in their sane mind was to suck cock for 100 or more hours a week.

Basically hit the pipe suck the cock hit the pipe suck the cock.

I had two friends that used to go to the crack houses in east New York.

walk in on friday night and leave on sunday morning.


spent 400-600 on crack and crack hoes.

they both died of aids.

btw what your actual model of card is and what are the temps?

I've always preferred to have relationships with intelligent girls, and not just use them as ornaments. Comments like that just show the guys inadequacy. We have the additional problem of teenage drug abuse in Britain, and the littering of parking areas with the discarded paraphernalia.