Originally Posted by rowan

I was mining an obscure coin that had some 'issues' but for some reason was being bought up at very high prices at one particular exchange. Some days I was making $100+ with only 2MH/s of hashing power.

The coin is pretty much dead now as a bug in the client has caused the network to stop minting PoW blocks. Enjoyed it while it lasted. (And it's not the only altcoin with that bug...)