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Tesla’s next business: Turning your solar roof and EV into Bitcoin miners
- spicybright 6y agoI don't believe the author knows what the hell he's talking about about any of these things. You barely get any power from the size of the solar panel to make a difference with anything in the car. Bit coin requires tons of cpu processing power to be profitable, even if it's part of a pool. I'd be surprised if you got more than a dollar over the entire life of the car. You need a decent reliable network connection, otherwise you can't mine new blocks. I'm assuming teslas have some sort of network already, but I can't imagine it would be efficient for this. We're already reaching the point where anything but a super computer can make a bitcoin. Unless it's for pure marketing purposes, this is a horrible idea that can be picked apart with a few seconds of critical thinking. Please tech websites, stop writing dumb articles.
- lgats 6y agoNot sure you can compete with the low cost of 24/7 hydro-electric in parts of the US and China. Running mining equipment off solar will leave the equipment out-of-use for more than half the day. Mining equipment is a significant cost factor for crypto. Even if energy is free, less than 50% utilization is a no-go for mining crypto.
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- 3327 6y agoPfffffffff. Give me what he is smoking.