TLDR: I quit mining 2 month ago but I m considering mining again. Read more for why I stopped and why I m considering resuming.

I used to dual mine ETH+ SIA/DCR/LBRY from March 2017 until the end of June. I managed to resell my 6x GTX 1060 rig at the same price I bought it for and made a few hundred dollar mining with it in the meanwhile.

If I strictly looked at my mining journey from a monetary perspective, I d say that the amount of time I spent researching, building my rig, setuping it properly, trying different miners, tweaking the overclock settings, opening accounts at various Crypto brokers was not worth it. However I must say I enjoyed the process and learned a lot so I d say it was still worth it.

The reasons are stoped in June were the following in the order of importance

I live in a hot country and summer+mining rig was turning my house to hell. It was not worth the few extra dollars. Turning the AC on would have killed profitability and rendered the whole exercise pointless The diminishing returns due to increased difficulty and competition from other miners scared me and I though I should resell my hardware before it was too late. The noise of my rig was mildly annoying

I ve been following the mining reddit and bitcointalk threads closely even after I quit mining.

Recently I ve been pondering wether I would get back to mining. I did some study and apparently the RX Vega 56 is the best mining GPU IF you can get it close to MSRP. Its ROI is 4-5 months taking reasonable difficulty increase and reasonable electricity costs into consideration.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2002025.640

As you can guess from the title of this blogpost, the main reason why I would reconsider mining is because it would heat my house during the cold Automn/Winter/Spring season. I live in Japan and houses are very badly insulted. The climate is not that cold here but walls and windows are thin (because of earthquake resistance constrains). Here you spend a lot on heating in late automn/winter/early spring unless you live in a brand new expensive appartment.

So my mining rig would essentially become a space heater that generates money. How aweseome is that?

So if I can get my hands on a few RX Vega56 below 500USD I ll resume my mining journey. How about you?