Some nights I think about this, and I just wanna cry. (How i missed the bus)

[slaveforanunnak1]

Oh well deleting

[oceans]

Wow that was a TOTAL mess, I would have been ripping my hair out. I dont know If I could handle looking at
that rats nest of wires and just leave it like that lol. I too was in a similar situation with bitcoin. when I first
heard about people mining bitcoin I was curious and had looked into it. I mined for a day or 2 but it tied up
my only computer at the time, so I felt it wasnt worth it. I kind of forgot about it for a little while. After
seeing it get up to the 70 each mark was when I became really interested again, and wished I had continued
mining. *sigh Best of luck!  

[TimS]

during which we decided to move out of that building and yes, with it, my opportunity went out the door! Now i work for a very clean place where everything is actually labelled and i can't just drop a miner in a rack and label it "router" :*(  LOL  Not to mention that i had a full 4 post rack in my office with my "lab" gear in it. (routers, fw, load-balancers, switches which ran all day for years)

Now i only have 6.5 BTC instead of 2000 or so....

Using other people's electricity and space to mine (or anything, really) without permission is illegal. If and when it was discovered, you can bet they'd want repayment for all of the electricity and cooling you used, all of the bitcoins you mined (in fiat at the peak of their value), the cost of the space you took up, and lawyer's fees. Or just lock you up, because you can't pay $4 million. Besides, one miner probably wouldn't have netted you 2000 BTC due to increasing difficulty.

Feel free to mourn that you lost the opportunity to buy/mine BTC when you thought it was magic internet money, not that you failed to take advantage of your employer to do so. (I wish I had bought every penny of BTC I could when I first seriously considered it at $100/BTC...instead, I bought about $11, and spent a portion of that on a Humble Bundle)

[Bit_Happy]

"Legacy systems" can be such a problem. Hey, at least you have a better job now. 

[counter]

You poor bastard.    That is terrible, my heart sank after this story but hey just know you are not along.  Many of us made mistakes along the way and they say misery loves company so I hope that bring you some comfort hehe.  Try and accumulate as much BTC as you can because you now see the value of it and the adoption rate is spreading.

[Lauda]

At least you have that 5 now, many have much less. Well yes indeed this is troubling and sad. Similar thing happened to me, due to certain events back then now I'm not a millionaire (yay).
This is just life.
Also

[BitCoinDream]

I was just looking and wondering at these pics...

https://i.imgur.com/xu81nwg.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/lYlzxnO.jpg

How do they manage ?

[Lauda]

On the pictures 

[Baitty]

I hate reading stories like this when someone was so close but decided on a different route. anyway the still have a small amount of Bitcoin which is going to be worth something in the future and you could keep investing every month or so.

[DjPxH]

Woah, those pictures are no fun at all. I mean, this looks like the back of my desk or my home server. In a corporate or productive environment this is un-administratable!

[DjPxH]

Woah, those pictures are no fun at all. I mean, this looks like the back of my desk or my home server. In a corporate or productive environment this is un-administratable!

This is called Organc growth! lol 15 years of it. I managed and tried to clean it as much as i can for 5 years before we GTFO out of there.

I'm just imagining you plugging some patch cables in and out and suddenly the whole network gets stuck. You then just hang your coat over your chair and start to go away at an increasing pace 

[hellscabane]

Interesting story. Should've just gone for it right? I mean there have been quite a few stories of people using equipment that weren't their own for mining.

But then again, most of those incidents happened in a school or something. A job is a completely different beast.

[Minecache]

Woah, those pictures are no fun at all. I mean, this looks like the back of my desk or my home server. In a corporate or productive environment this is un-administratable!

This is called Organc growth! lol 15 years of it. I managed and tried to clean it as much as i can for 5 years before we GTFO out of there.

Why did you stay there when most staff left after 6 months?

[kwukduck]

Whats the problem? You have 6.5 full BTC. That's gonna be a looot of money in a few years...

[Light]

Eh, don't worry about things you should've done - there's no way you would have seen I turn out as well as it did. You learn to get over your mistakes, the key thing is just to learn from it and not let it pull you down. I personally wish I bought more back when they were like 2c each, did not sell them off later on and did not be so careless with my hard drives. I've learnt my lesson so while I might have a tinge of regret I'm not necessarily overly upset anymore.

[bitboy11]

I discovered bitcoin when they were $5 each.
I was immediately interested and stayed up all that night trying to understand it.

I even checked around to see what people were buying and selling.
All I could find were some online shops with Doritos and Lays snacks.
I wasn't too impressed anymore, however I still downloaded the wallet.
When I tried to open it, it was using 100% of my CPU for over 20 minutes.
That's when I decided it wasn't worth killing my computer and I deleted everything.

I'm still a little pissed off but the truth is that back then I would have never wasted more than $20 on something so unproven anyway.
In the end, my first full bitcoin purchase costed me over $1,000.
LOL!!!
I'm still HODLING but still buying more!

[Trillium]

Yep I've mined about 100 BTC at least from CPU/GPU days. Of course, I do not have them today, I had power bills to pay and at that time mining to me was just something to keep my computers busy while they were running other stuff, I dont think many early miners had the foresight or true-believer-yness that bitcoin would become "something big".

My systems used to run computation tasks (BOINC projects) specifically the GPU accelerated ones. At that time I had 4x 4870x2 cards donating to those projects, and a few other random cards, meanwhile other people were solo mining BTC (which I had not heard about yet). Makes me very sad to look back and see my wallets these days, and mining maybe 0.01 BTC/day at most... soon to be 0 BTC/day.

[culexevilman]

I think we all have a moment in time where we wished we were back in 2009, but on the bright side, 5 years from now bitcoin will either be successful or broke, you can choose make a better choice today. Dont be shortsighted, history will repeats itself.

[ixne]

Everything is easy in hindsight.  I remember buying bitcoins when they were $5 and feeling slightly embarrassed about wasting cash on magic internet money.  Back then things were much more underground and unsure. Most people, myself included, probably didn't really expect bitcoin to succeed, even if we thought the idea was brilliant.  There were a lot of questions about potential bugs, what ASICs would do if/when they were developed, hard forks, upscaling, and legal questions that just had not been encountered yet.  I just looked at my purchase like a donation to an interesting cryptographic protocol that I wanted to support.  After the first big crash in 2011 (after reaching the ridiculous peak of $32), the death of bitcoin was declared and many people sold their bitcoins in the following months at a loss somewhere around $2-5. Since I saw the whole thing as a donation, I never bothered to sell mine.

[Lauda]

I think we all have a moment in time where we wished we were back in 2009, but on the bright side, 5 years from now bitcoin will either be successful or broke, you can choose make a better choice today. Dont be shortsighted, history will repeats itself.

This can't be applied on everyone. Some of us were back in '09 and '10 while the majority didn't, but one can't live like this.