Tinkering to create a crypto price ticker - first try

I've been checking some documentation about open source bitcoin miners lately and I while browsing for into, I stumbled upon @Bitmaker and his online store where they sell the Bitaxe open source BTC miner. While checking his youtube channel, I found one of his videos showing how you can build a crypto price ticker and thought it would be nice to try.

I used to play with arduino long ago and decided to take a look at my old stuff, although I did not find the board he uses in the video, I did find a small ESP8266 as well as an lcd display, so I decided I would use them to try to follow his tutorial so I downloaded arduino software into my Mac to get into the board and flash the code

I connected the ESP board to the Mac and tested it before moving forward, It took me a while as the USB cable I was using was not recognizing the board, after some testing I ended up switching to a different cable end finally was able to test the board with Arduino opensource software and the basic blinking program. I was following this video: Connecting your ESP8266 to your mac

Then it was time to connect the LCD to the board, I followed the instructions in this other video: Conecting the ESP8266 to an LCD screen

I finally managed to run the LCD test tutorial before a sad accident happened which seems to have burned the board.😡
I guess I will have to get a new board to move forward or try to use one old raspberry Pi3 which has wifi as the ESP board. The old arduino boards I have do not have wifi and that is the reason I was trying to use the ESP82.

I will keep trying and will post as I move forward