I Just Found $1,013 in Bitcoin That I Didn’t Know I Had
My story highlights the challenges with storing and managing cryptocurrencies
I’ve been writing a lot about cryptocurrency mining recently. I’m not a professional miner — I’m a journalist and experimenter. But you don’t have to be a professional to make a little cryptocurrency. You can mine small amounts of Bitcoin on any PC, or even use the heat generated from a crypto mining rig to heat a chicken coop.
Some of these projects can turn out to be more profitable than even I had originally intended. While writing about how to build a cryptocurrency mining rig recently, I logged into an old Nicehash account to check some mining statistics. I got a big surprise when I found that the account contained $1,013.71 in Bitcoin that I didn’t know I had.
After some sleuthing, I found that the mystery Bitcoins were generated in an experiment I did in 2018 on heating my home with cryptocurrency mining.
