this year it all started off again i and fired up my mining machines again and have since upgraded them. when it all crashed i simply forgot about it. which in theory will double my mining gains. i am rather hoping it will make at least 100K by the end of the year. How much i will make depends entirely on what happens to the price of bitcoin. that 1600 dollars is being hodled (invested) in the form of bitcoin. i am currently seeing around $1600 dollars a month from doing this. maybe driving that amazon delivery van is all some people can do in the beginning. Whatever you do with crypto you need some spare money to start off the game in the first place. Cryptocurrency mining costs make little sense at ordinary residential electrical rates. OP doesn't address the key factor that makes cryptocurrency mining a remote consideration: extremely cheap power and cooling. If you could make +20% three times a year from trading crypto, you'd be up +72.8%.
It is better to swing trade cryptos and take your profits when you've reached the limit of your risk tolerance: +20%, +30%, +50%, whatever. And now ETH is nearly back to where it was and GPU pricing has stayed relatively the same. In the last few months, ETH shed nearly half of its value (as cryptocurrencies routinely do) but this wasn't reflected in GPU market pricing.
Note that the price of cryptocurrency doesn't significantly impact GPU pricing. Rather than buying three 3060 cards, you'd be better off sinking two grand into ETH, walking away, and checking ETH prices in a year. If you had a few extra GPUs sitting around idling that were purchased prior to November 2020, you'd be able to reach the break even point a little earlier, but any RDNA2 or Ampere GPU is a total bust from a mining value standpoint. Cryptocurrency prices are driven by traders - buyers and sellers - not miners. I would say that 99.9% of the world's accumulated fortunes are from investments not ordinary wages. If you want to get rich from Amazon, buy shares of AMZN. If you want to make money from cryptocurrency, TRADE the currency. Trying to get rich mining cryptocurrency is like trying to get rich from Amazon by driving one of their delivery vans.