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In Norway until recently the electricity was cheap. So many apartments and even houses in suburbs use resistive heating as installing heat pumps was not profita
by _0w8t 4y ago
In Norway until recently the electricity was cheap. So many apartments and even houses in suburbs use resistive heating as installing heat pumps was not profitable. But then in winter one can just mine crypto coins on GPU for free to heat the home. Granted the wast majority of miners work on alt coins but some do try their luck with bitcoins.
- TomSwirly 4y agoStealing from society and burning fossil fuels in order to profit yourself. It's disgusting.
- rag-hav 4y agoHow are they stealing from soceity?
- icoder 4y agoThis is achtually the nichest of niches where mining bitcoin is not stealing from Society: the existing alternative resisting heating, would produce as much heat per watt as mining bitcoin would. Sure, there's the question of using the hardware for this purpose, and possibly this dampens the transition to heat pumps, but it's the 'least immoral' mining situation I've heard of so far.
- kzrdude 4y agoNorwegian power production is to 90%+ hydro power. Norway is under the NO column in this table. https://www.statnett.no/en/for-stakeholders-in-the-power-industry/data-from-the-power-system/#nordic-power-balance https://www.statnett.no/en/for-stakeholders-in-the-power-ind...
- mahkeiro 4y agoIt's not in Norway that they are burning fuel to produce electricity…
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