A big thanks to the FTC community
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Just wanted to send out a big thank you to the FTC community… I started this process back in late November, after a lot of research on BTC and LTC, I shifted my attention to FTC. Based on the professionalism of this site, friendliness and lack of apparent competition of this community, and the willingness to help others, regardless of prior experience or knowledge, I decided to jump in.
I started ordering parts in early December and although I have about 25 years experience as a video editor, my computer tech knowledge is pretty limited. The forum guides have been great, and responses from fellow miners have been spot on to make this a reality. The rig is up and running in a spare bedroom (my son is away at college) and the system has been stable with pool mining for about 36 hours now, churning away and depositing 5 FTC consistently to the wallet. I tried to explain all this to my wife, starting with the concept of BTC… but after about 10 minutes her eyes just kind of glazed over. Her main response was “how much is this costing us?” and “is this legal?” These first couple of days, I am constantly heading back there to make sure everything is still alive, temps are ok, etc., and she has now started to make fun of me as I go to check on my “babies.”
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[quote]Her main response was “how much is this costing us?” and “is this legal?” These first couple of days, I am constantly heading back there to make sure everything is still alive, temps are ok, etc., and she has now started to make fun of me as I go to check on my "babies.[/quote]
Funny, my wife is exactly the same.
Are you using CG Watcher ?
If not you should give it a try.
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Nice Rig, my partner thinks i’m obsessed and hates it, she doesn’t understand crypto currency and believes its just a quick fad and is wasting our electricity bill. ::)
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Hehe give it time, its addictive. and the misses no longer think its funny that I’m down in my mining basement checking stuff.
20+ cards will do that to you ;D -
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Just wanted to send out a big thank you to the FTC community… I started this process back in late November, after a lot of research on BTC and LTC, I shifted my attention to FTC. Based on the professionalism of this site, friendliness and lack of apparent competition of this community, and the willingness to help others, regardless of prior experience or knowledge, I decided to jump in.I started ordering parts in early December and although I have about 25 years experience as a video editor, my computer tech knowledge is pretty limited. The forum guides have been great, and responses from fellow miners have been spot on to make this a reality. The rig is up and running in a spare bedroom (my son is away at college) and the system has been stable with pool mining for about 36 hours now, churning away and depositing 5 FTC consistently to the wallet. I tried to explain all this to my wife, starting with the concept of BTC… but after about 10 minutes her eyes just kind of glazed over. Her main response was “how much is this costing us?” and “is this legal?” These first couple of days, I am constantly heading back there to make sure everything is still alive, temps are ok, etc., and she has now started to make fun of me as I go to check on my “babies.”
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[/quote]The glazing over of the eyes happens to anyone I try to explain cryptocurrency to haha lots of big words they don’t understand ::) good thing I don’t have a wife! :D