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> something more useful... Ha! A space heater with bitcoin mining coils. Call them "bitcoils".

• taneq 5y ago
  I'm sure you've heard the old joke about gamer college students using their fancy graphics cards to heat their rooms. :)
  • eightails 5y ago
    I did this last winter. Mining 24/7 on my personal rig noticeably took a bit of load off the heater and made a modest amount of ethereum. I stopped once the weather warmed as it seemed like a waste of energy.
    • kmonsen 5y ago
      I did the same, then my graphics card died and it was a net loss :-(
    • sprkwd 5y ago
      How were your electric bills?
      • eightails 5y ago
        Not appreciably different, that was the whole logic behind my thinking. In my case I have electric heaters, so doesn't make a difference compared to a gpu -- they're both effectively 100% thermally efficient.