I wrote last year of how I was mining ethereum and with ETH 2.0 always looming around the corner, the end was near. Now it seems that ETH 2.0 may actually happen mid September. When that happens, miners will either mine a new coin or they’ll just liquidate all their GPU’s. I’ve chosen to just liquidate all my GPU’s. It was a sign when on Sunday morning, I woke up to an alert saying my mining rig was down. When I went downstairs, I saw the picture below. YES, I nearly burnt down my house. So yeah, that’s a sign I should stop mining now.
The odd thing was that it was running fine for about a year and a half. I’m not sure what happened. I’m guessing a Windows update pushed down a video driver update, which then made my MSI Afterburner (undervolting software) not work and thus, there was a huge surge of electricity which caused the outlet to burn out.
I can imagine the wife’s reaction lol
Wow. This is absolutely scary but definitely should be looked at as a sign. Better to liquidate your GPU’s than having to liquidate your house. You aren’t alone, as a lot of my friends are also getting out of mining as well.