Wow, what amazing self-made entrepreneurs. This inspires me and says to me, "Maybe I can pull myself up by my bootstraps and make something of myself."

But I have a feeling there is vital information missing here. Oh, what's this near the bottom?

In addition to being very complicated, mining is certainly not cheap, as it requires expensive equipment, a lot of energy and computer power.

Ishaan and Aanya, for example, have over 97 processors, which their father Raj, a former investment banker, helped fund by taking out a loan.

Raj declined to disclose the exact loan amount. But, the worldwide shortage of computer chips made finding equipment much more difficult and set prices at a premium.

Ishaan and Aanya mostly use Nvidia RTX 3090 graphics cards, Ishaan says, and each card alone can cost around $2,500 to $3,000 to buy.

Though at home, the siblings say they use “100% renewable energy for our mining,” because “we want to be environmentally friendly,” they also rent a data center in Dallas, Texas. In total, for both their home and the data center, the electric bill costs just below $3,000 per month, Ishaan says.

  • fuckwit [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    fucking bougie Indians making everyone hate the rest of the diaspora. We’re not all wealthy shitheads, I promise.

    • princeofsin [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      These kinds of desi are the ones that go "poverty is a choice"

    • stigsbandit34z [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I honestly haven't met an Indian in the US who is not bougie as hell, but that probably makes sense. I'm assuming this is only the case because they have the means to move across the world.

      Knew a guy in high school who's parents were both doctors, and he recently got his MBA in finance. Another one of my (old) friends works for chase bank corporate

    • pppp1000 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      You say that but if you put this on Facebook or anywhere online, you will still get the "Proud to be Indian" comments.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      I knew a girl once who was like "Our family isn't really rich" while casually dropping their 6 servants and their aunt or something being ambassador to doxxland.