I used to mine Eth back in a day, had built myself a rig, spent a fortune on GPU's spent few night learning and ended up joining a pool. I have been mining Eth mainly, tried a few coins like pascal, Xmr, but mostly Eth. I remember those hot summer nights with all those fans buzzing and myself unable to have a good sleep just because it was too hot lol But that sweet sense of profits lured me in and i suffered lol
I did not take much profits, but the rig paid itself back, since i would mine 1 Eth in a few days time, then one Eth a week and so on as the difficulty increased. I believe Eth was still trading at around ~180 USD when i started. Ofc i have sold most of my mined eth at 180 before it went to the moon :) I still have a few Eth somewhere in a wallet, sold the rig by parts later on, so all in all it was not a negative yield. But what's more important this acquaintance with crypto world brought me to steem and consequently to hive.
We stopped mining BTC even before the halving. The electricity cost far outweighed the profits. We mined through the winter because it heats our house but once spring got here, and the utility companies bump the rates to twice the price, it's a losing proposition. It was great though back in 2017!
It was wasn't it :) And i love that part of heating the house, it was just my loft but then again it was just one rig :) It's just funny that you get paid with bitcoin for heating your house with electricity lol But you did not sell the rigs or did you?