Another great example of why getting in early matters.
When I first went into business for myself and started really trying to focus on making the Bish Bucket Adventures videos and my clothing line, I quickly realized I was badly overtaxing my cheap laptop. I rationalized that if I bought a computer that could mine crypto, that it would eventually pay for itself.
The first hard lesson was finding out that the video card manufacturer had specifically messed with the new series of cards, so it would be harder for me to mine Etherium on it. The mining community quickly adapted and overcame, and one of the solutions was dual mining. By only running the Ethereum algorithm at a certain rate, you could get away with mining another algorithm at the same time with the unused capacity of the card.
One of the algorithms that worked well for that was for mining Alephium. At the time I was getting maybe a dollar worth of Ethereum a day, and maybe like 9 ALPH, which at the time was worth about $0.45. The whole time, I was definitely burning more electricity than I was turning profit. The only benefit I was seeing was the heat the computer was throwing off in the winter.
Eventually, the Alephium project gained traction, and the price now would have more than made up for the electric consumption then.
As the project started to take shape, an exchange was started, with a new governance token, Ayin. I saw this as a huge opportunity, so I pushed a bunch of my stack into that. I was right.
My gains not only paid off the computer, but also bought me a plane ticket so I could go to Florida and crash a Harley to get the Bish Bucket back on the road.
The Alephium community has always been building, there is a robust array a dapps available these days, and has an infrastructure ready for growth.
There is talk of a partnership with gigatons_group that may lead to mass adoption, and the potential is there for the first half of the story to be the less wild part than where it goes in the future. It may look kind of flat on the charts right now. but you never know what is going on behind the scenes unless you are involved in the community.
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