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<p>I started to write on Steemit just 7 days ago. After writing few post in first 4 days I decided to do something what very less people are doing.</p>
<p>So from last 2 days I have not written anything but wasted my 32 hour. Here is the full story what I did in last 32 hours and why you should not do what I did.</p>
<h3>[13th August 1:00 A.M]</h3>
<p>I started my laptop and was chatting on Steem chat. Idea of mining Steem came in my mind. I had heard about bitcoin mining but never had any experience.</p>
<p>I used Steem search feature and searched for "Steem mining".</p>
<p>After reading a lot, I concluded that mining is not easy on windows. But I found a straight forward guide for Ubuntu.</p>
<p>That guide was - https://steemit.com/steemhelp/@joseph/mining-steem-for-dummies</p>
<p>In starting I was very afraid because I had never used any operating system other than windows.</p>
<p>But I always love to try new things. So I thought to give Ubuntu a try.</p>
<p>I started my old computer which was running with windows 7. From Ubuntu website I downloaded it and then on the same website I found the instruction to make Ubuntu bootable for USB stick.</p>
<p>I used my USB card and successfully created bootable copy of Ubuntu.</p>
<h3>Now it was 5:30 in the morning.</h3>
<p>But I was happy I learned something new. Before that I never had made any bootable copy. So it was good learning experience for me.</p>
<p>Now. it was the time to install Ubuntu on my old computer.</p>
<p>That part was easy and took around 1 hour with all the updates.</p>
<p>So I was on the Ubuntu platform first time in my life. Look was good but not much functions as we have with Windows. But I had heard that Ubuntu is best for development.</p>
<p>Any way it was the time to start following Steem mining guide.</p>
<p>I took the small break of just 1 hour and I was back on my computer at 8:00 A.M</p>
<p>It was very hard for me because I never have done coding. Even that guide was straight forward but I still made some mistakes. I keep following all the instructions again and again.</p>
<p>Lot of error came and no one was there to help me.</p>
<p>My computer froze up many times and I pressed the restart button in frustration again and again.</p>
<p><center><img src="http://i.imgsafe.org/fe66daa7b4.png" width="677" height="336"/></center></p>
<h3>It was 5:00 P.M</h3>
<p>And I was still stuck in that code. I again searched for other articles about mining. But I found the same guide pretty straight forward and again I started to follow the steps.</p>
<p>I struggled a lot with the code as it was first time in my life When I was doing so much coding.</p>
<p>Failed Every time.</p>
<h3>It was 8:00 P.M</h3>
<p>An idea came in my mind. I had heard about amazon AWS. So it was the time to give it a try.</p>
<p>But again...</p>
<p>It was first time and I had never done any server setup before. </p>
<p>I used my card and after few minutes I was ready with amazon free Tier.</p>
<p>I followed YouTube videos and used amazon EC2 to setup a virtual server. It took me around 30 mins.</p>
<p>But instead of Ubuntu, I installed windows. I found another article on Steem about mining on windows.</p>
<p>I followed it 6-7 times and end result was same.</p>
<p>I spent many hours to figure out the solution.</p>
<p>I chatted with one of Steem member and found that minimum requirement is 4 gb RAM for mining.</p>
<p>I was happy to know that because I thought, now I have found the solution.</p>
<p>Because until now I had tried on my old computer which was running with 2 gb RAM. And with virtual server I was using only 1 gb RAM.</p>
<h3>[14th August 1:00 A.M]</h3>
<p>I was not feeling good because last 24 hours were very tough with no solution and no sleep.</p>
<p>But I always follow never give up approach.</p>
<p>Now it was the time to try with my laptop which has 4 gb RAM. My laptop was filled with lot of information and I could not afford to lose the information if anything wrong happen.</p>
<p>But I took the risk.</p>
<p>I was now completing the steps faster because I was doing the same thing from last many hours.</p>
<p>But now I faced the problem which I tried to solve with no success.</p>
<p><center><img src="http://i.imgsafe.org/fe05159c44.png" width="1363" height="716"/></center> </p>
<p>I tried everything I found on internet to resolve this problem. Whole night spent to found out the solution.</p>
<h3>Now it is 8:30 A.M</h3>
<p>And I am at the same point from where I started around 32 hours ago.</p>
<p>After talking to more people I found out that mining Steem is not profitable until you are using GPU. On the other hand writing content is much more profitable.</p>
<p>With normal PC, We can mine 1-2 Steem per day and sometimes even less.</p>
<p>It was a lesson for me.</p>
<p><strong>I could have written few blog post instead of trying to mine.</strong></p>
<p><strong>But I learned a lot of things and installing Ubuntu was a good learning experience.</strong></p>
<p><strong>I want to sleep now and no one can stop me. But from you guys I want to see comments.</strong></p>
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