I was actually mining and sort of enjoying the experience. I even bought an Anaconda due to the interdictions heading back with a hold full of painite, platinum, palladium and gold. Last night I am mining in a ring well outside the RES zones and "crash" the transaction server kicked me out of the game.
Rinse and repeat! Maybe every 10 minutes this would happen. So I flew my almost fully laden Anaconda back to my home base and sold the cargo and got 200M CR back from selling my Anaconda. I am done with Mining until the servers can be stable.
I even had the unable to connect to authentication server AFTER being kicked out by the transaction server twice last night. I shut the game down after that and watched a movie.