My Elmo is not the Cute and Friendly One on Sesame Street
How far will you go for money? Sometimes I ask myself this around noon everyday here in Florida because not only is the humidity unbearable outside around this time of year, I have managed to bring that same heat source feel into my own bedroom. All in the name of mining, the relentless quest to bring in more so I can feed my Steem Power machine.
A few months a go I got a little more serious about mining. First I bought 2 Antminer S4s, used but at a fair price, well till I fired them up for a straight month to find out I made literally only a few bucks in profits after I seen the electricity bill. That master plan was a dud and sure a lot of beginners find out that the older miners just can't keep up. So they sit quiet now, I hold onto them just because I think they are cool but not worth running.
So after that fiasco I did more research and decided to get a scrypt miner. I knew it wasn't going to make me rich but had to have something that spat out a little change. I ended up going the old ebay route this time and got a very dated GawMiner Falcon, not knowing that GawMiner was no longer even a company and they had legal issues over a cloud farm incident they screwed over a few people with. My luck, so hey had to find user created software but luckily located it.
MEET MY ELMO, THE BRINGER OF EVIL AND HELLFIRE
I named this bad boy Elmo due to the color, I know not original much but we have to have names to those things that bring forth the old crypto. Elmo turned out to be in mint condition, found out it wasn't used ever even though it was sold as used and you could still smell that new circuit board smell when I popped Elmo open to verify he was sound. Not one hardware issue I could see...so off to hooking ELMO up and boy did that begin the headaches coming.
Lets just say Elmo is so old and dated that not much software has been made available for it in a long time. ELMSO was a tad picky about what software I could use to mine with it and our relationship started on major rocky ground. It tookmany software attempts but luckily found a Zeus miner one from a few years back that took to ELMO. To this day not one issue other than the fact my PC is in my bedroom and this thing is a heater. I average a few dollars extra a week, I run this in combination with my beast of a gaming PC that has a GTX 1080 card. Lets just say that card and PC mixed with Elmo does so much temperature rising that my AC doesn't even bother to cool the room down, nor does the 2 fans I have on all the time.
So next time you read one of my articles, remember not only do I try my ass off to give you good content, I am sweating bullets doing it lol. EVIL ELMO is laughing probably at me here, but hey it brings in a little something and till I get a second GTX 1080 I will just run it to death.
I LOVE YOU ELMO BUT I THINK MY FIANCE WANTS TO DO THIS TO YOU 😠LOL
My quest for more Steem Power is a sacrifice to say the least, but only good things come when you grin and bare the trials. And trust me 90+ degree room temps is a huge trial in the summertime lol.
Okay off to the pool, be back shortly. lol
