In 2015, one AMD Radeon R9 280 video card gave about 6 Ethereum coins per day. Even if I were to sell coins now, it would be millions of dollars. But then no one understood the value of these coins and miners sold them for a few tens of cents or less.
Mid 2017 a R9 280 make 0.2 eth per month...
Yeah the r9 280x was a killer GPU for Ethereum. I remember back in late 2015 and early 2016, you basically made 1 ETH per 280x per day. Keep in mind ETH was like $1-5 or so back then.
However difficulty was low, DAG was low, nobody was mining it because crypto seemed dead at the time. Those who believed in it made it out big.
Especially if they also kept their ETC which happened after the DAO hack. ETC also had some great runs in price.
I was pleasantly surprised exactly if I remember correctly one year ago or a bit more when ETC hit its all time high of 179 USD I had some 12-13 of them and I enjoyed very much selling them at that time making a really nice profit.Unfortunately for the ETH I started mining in late 2016 early 2017 where everybody or almost everybody had moved to Ethereum mining.I still keep some ETC now because who knows what the next bull run makes,why not a 1790 USD for a ETC coin,we never know what the future reserves to us.Back when mining ETH I used Nicehash then so I missed out on ETH at that time however because I kept Bitcoin I made a huge profit in February 2021 where I exchange most of it.
another fun thing back in the days, when i go shopping for new and second hand gpus, there is a sense that i'm the only one crypto mining, a few people maybe but you can't feel it around(only suspicion), there is no discussion around, there is also a sense that there might be something wrong with me(nobody understands, nobody cares about crypto)-yep, partly embarrassing because it looks like you are wasting your time on some useless shit turning you as a person into a useless shit too(so being early is no easy thing
)---plugging on the internet held my crypto sanity hehe