I disagree. I was mining with 30 gpu's in 2017, 2018, 2019, and half of 2020. Though all of the ups and downs, I never shut rigs down, and I didn't sell crypto to pay for electricity. Sure I could have sold some eth in Jan 2018, but I did not, and that is what it is. In fact, I still have yet to sell a single mined coin with the exception of trading etn to btc in late 2017 and rvn to btc in late 2018. I mined the shit out of eth and xmr and I still have all of it. I used savings and tax refunds to pay for electricity costs and I continued to mine regardless of what daily profit calculators were telling me. As a general rule, I mostly stayed away from mining total garbage.
I began selling off gpu's one by one in Sept of this year getting back about 50% of what I paid for them new. All in all I am very happy with the fact that I didn't sell off coins to pay for electricity. Had I done that, I would have been selling coins way lower than I wanted to, and I would not be in as good of a position that I am currently in.
All things considered, mining certainly is a fun adventure, and I continue to mine on a very very small scale. I doubt I'll ever mine with more than a handful of gpu's again. Not @ 10 cents/kWh anyway.
You did it right, most would have sold their coins when it was low because most lack patience, also mining for scraps only benefit others who buy your coins, in that sense mining has been dead for a long time, those trolls who mined bitcoin when it was $1 and sold each for $1 must have all committed suicide at this point or earlier in time, like mining most miners from that time must have been dead too ehhe
That might be the first time ever that you have agreed with something I've said. I'll have to make a note of that. Lol. I had a lot of fun arguing with you about stuff a few years ago. Glad to see that you're still here
