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The concept is great. There was the story of the guy who heated his swimming pool with miners. Related: distributed computing in heaters with Qarnot Computing
by dest 11y ago
The concept is great. There was the story of the guy who heated his swimming pool with miners.
Related: distributed computing in heaters with Qarnot Computing http://www.qarnot-computing.com/ http://www.qarnot-computing.com/
- danboarder 11y ago@dest I believe the BitHeat team have or are close to having a working prototype, I talked to one of the founders a couple months ago when they had just finished their custom miner PCB and were beginning to test prototypes.
- dest 11y agoThe installation of such hardware is difficult. You do need a plumber and people that rent their home probably can't do it without the landlord's consent. Why not rather focus on the central heating of buildings?
- StoneSolone 11y agoCo-founder here, capital utilization and market size. Not everywhere needs heat and those that do typically only need it for part of the year. The installation isn't super technical but it makes a lot of sense if you are already replacing an old water heater. As for renters it could be tricky, even without them the water heater market dwarfs the bitcoin mining market. Landlords would see it as a similar investment to solar panels except less up front shorter and better ROI.