I had a few friends making money on it - I was a dreamer for sure... At the time I remember there was a team working on hashing functions in hand-tuned assembl

I had a few friends making money on it - I was a dreamer for sure... At the time I remember there was a team working on hashing functions in hand-tuned assembly for the PS3's Cell processor that would take advantage of it's vector capabilities. I wanted to take their implementations and learn assembly well enough to write my own bitcoin miner. This was long before ASICs became a thing so the PS3 looked like a big money-making opportunity. :-)