I had done some Bitcoin mining a number of years ago. I was part of a mining pool, but stopped doing that because I didn’t think it was going to be that profitable. I hadn’t really thought anything about it until the recent huge run up of Bitcoin with all the news and everything, gaining over 2000% in 2017. I was obviously very excited at the prospect of how much my old BTC would now be worth (I was thinking in the neighborhood of $50,000-$100,000).
I went to log into my account, but couldn’t log in anymore as it said my account had been deactivated. Then I went back to scour through my email account and found an email from the mining pool saying that my account hadn’t been used in over a year and would be deactivated in 20 days if I didn’t log in. Needless to say I didn’t read the email and obviously didn’t log in to keep my account active. So just a warning to everyone, keep your mining pool accounts active and always READ your emails or you may lose out on a chance of a lifetime!