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by recuter 1189 days ago
> The problem was finding funding to pay for the operating expenses, megawatts of power, so it never got off the ground and the hardware has been turned off and decommissioned. Such a bummer.

You ran 120,000 graphics card to mine ETH and didn't end up with lambos or like... ether.. to donate to the professor along with the hardware?

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Yeah, that's either a typo or bull ... or maybe one of the top 5 ETH miners is among us.
Nah, while this was a large operation, there were much much larger ETH miners.
Wow.
Hookers and blow actually. Space dust.
Nice.
anybody running them would have the same operational costs, probably far higher since miners gravitate to the lowest cost power source
He couldn't even donate 120 out of the 120k cards and one lambo? I'm beginning to think this whole crypto thing is sus