Its been a little while since Ive done an update on how rich I am not.
But its a new year and Microvision still hasn’t done it for me…. yet.
Oh Im also giving away that S9 in this video!
Here are all the things I am invested in and all of my income streams and where I have
my money working right now.
Though its working out QUITE well, Id like to point out that its probably not a good
idea to follow me into all of these - I may or may not be sitting on a house of cards
in the eye of a hurricane.
I tend towards risk.
My name is Nicholas Johnson and this is the Space Warehouse…
Speaking of risk - lets start with my longest running passive income stream - my medical
retirement from the US army.
If youre interested in a WILD amount of risk with a rapid succession of chances for great
personal harm, join the US Army to become a Paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne.
You get a mild chance to hurt yourself during basic training, another chance in your advanced
individual training, and then basically a 50/50 shot of causing yourself some manner
of permanent physical damage to your body at airborne school!
Then you go on to join one of the most deployed units in all fighting forces on earth, Airborne
All The Way.
Sometime in 2005 I fractured my L4 vertebrae and broke my hip jumping out of an airplane
when I had some… underperforming equipment and a very hard landing.
Some months later, I was medically discharged with a chapter 31, 30% Disabled “from an
instrument of warfare” and left the US Army; for that I now receive a paycheck of $522.39
a month, with raises!
$17 dollars a day.
Next on the list, and my smallest passive income stream, Scrypt Algorithm mining.
It used to be Litecoin/DogeCoin mining, but the profitability of those coins fluctuated
pretty hard over the last few months so I just have all my Antminer L3+ miners on nicehash,
where people can rent the hash power and do what they want with it.
Those machines dig up an average , currently, $342 a month or $11.42 daily.
For GPU’s I’ve got my original RTX 3080’s, I got these back before they made LHR models,
so each one is running around 95ish megahash - three of them on CudoMiner at a rate of
between 10$ and 15 dollars a day, we’ll call it 12 for easy math, and then 2 more
on daggerhashimoto over at NiceHash, just trying it out for kicks, and those are bringing
in $8 something a day - together all of my GPUs are producing $600 or so a month..
I remember when they were making like 1300 a month not too long ago, thats nuts, man.
On to the big boys - I have six S19J Pros, all overclocked to a different degree - One
immersion cooled one and one air-cooled one running in the She Shed, and the other 4 in
the hurricane room at the warehouse.
Looks like theyre averaging between 0.0027BTC and 0.0033BTC (because Im always messing with
the overclocks) which today converts to an average of $134 per day or about 4020 dollars
a month.
Of course they use a TON of electricity so the profit on those is a bit lower than the
actual income from them, obviously.
Then we have my actual full time job, which isnt full time in the traditional sense..
This is where the warehouse came from in the first place!
I work for an event company, so Ill have like two whole weeks where I dont really work much
at all - and then two weeks where, like this last week, I travel to New York for a week
and then Straight to California for a week, and work 12-14 hours per day!
For this work, I am paid a salary of $50,000 a year, or $137 a day wether Im working or
not, adding 4110 to the monthly take.
Next, YouTube..
Its sort of a passive/active income hybrid since of course I have to do sometimes a lot
of work to shoot and edit a video - but then that same video will keep earning money, sometimes
for years afterwards!
In fact, my second highest paying video in the last 28 days was something I made about
Uship, a shipping side hustle, back in 2020!
From YouTube adsense if I average out the last three months it was a thousand bucks
in November, 1300 in December and another 1000 in January - lets keep it easy and say
1150 a month for YouTube..
38 dollars a day to the tally.
I have a few other various incomes that are so irregular I cant really tabulate them in
a any reliable way - I shoot pictures of race cars once in a while, I like to U-ship cargo
on my way to and from the gigs, Ill usually make a couple thousand bucks in a weekend
of that - I screen print shirts occasionally, and I make an always fluctuating amount on
amazon affiliate links in the description of these videos..
I actually had like a $400 dollar month in January almost exclusively from fan spoofers
for immersion cooling!
Im an… influencer.. call it $800 monthly with some of the worlds loosest math, 26 dollars
daily.
I have technically agreed on a channel sponsorship with Musk Miners, but we’re only part way
through the negotiation as far as what thats worth to them and me, so unfortunately - due
to the delicate dance of posturing, persuasion, compliment sandwiches, undeniable points,
concessions, compromise, and stalwart steadfastness…
I cannot yet add that income stream into this calculation.
Ive got you right where I want you, Blake and Chris and I swear there was a third guy
other than Oscar…
And finally, the John Henry of my investment portfolio - driving steel into the rocks to
build his railroad until he dies from the effort - My 8 StrongBlock Nodes.
They came to me at a cost of somewhere in the neighborhood of $37,000 total - and pay
out 0.8 Strong per day.
The price of strong has fluctuated from $400 to $700 to $300 in just the couple months
Ive been invested and of course today, while Im reporting on earnings, its at its lowest
sustained level of $320 - which works out to $256 dollars a day, or $7,680 a month.
Strong tends to, at least in swooping trends, follow the price movement of bitcoin, so as
soon as this inflation slash russia fear is over, itll probably go up.
Or we’ll go to war and the electric car revolution will get pushed back and Ill have
to keep living with eight foot ceilings in my house even longer.
Those are all of my incomes, except the musk thing..
$639 dollars a day; most of it tied to crypto in a dip - most of it fluctuating by 10% or
more in a single day.
And shoot, only 20% of it coming from my full time job?
I really like the travel and I adore the people I work with, like a lot, but man - looks like
Im pecuniarily undervalued there.
As far as non-income earning investments, I am pretty bad at stocks - down $100,000
on 11,000 shares of Microvision.
Hey future me!
Are you super mad or like, overwhelmingly thankful for what were doing back here in
the past?
Also down on Lightwave Logic, Nio, AquaMetals and Bio Largo..
Awesome work!
I pulled out of Tesla early, too!
In addition to my stocks, I generally feed money into Bitcoin, Ethereum and Matic and
a little Ravencoin through my mining profits..
I also own “SPACE” In BitTime at a current price of $2000.
Im using my Strong profits to pay off the forty grand in credit card debt I ran up getting
the engine started on this fire breathing income machine.
My investment holdings are low while I get out of credit card debt - then Ill be investing
a minimum of $10,000 a month after March.
OH, speaking of Credit Cards!
Ive got an S9 to give away..
Lets fire up that credit report and pick a winner!
There are 928 comments on that video from two days ago! and a few people were REALLY
close!
According to Equifax, I have a total of $116,807 dollars of credit card space - why on earth
could one person be allowed to borrow THAT MUCH MONEY on a whim???
After reading every comment - it turns out there was a four way tie thanks to round numbers..
But - Papi Chulo was a mere $193 off and was the first one to guess $117,000 - I said closest,
not closest without going over, so if youre watching this, Papi - get ahold of me over
on the discord (link in the description) and or comment on this video and Ill send you
this bitcoin miner totally free of any charge.
This was fun, I should give more stuff away.