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I was thinking to do something like that, since heating got so expensive this year.
by k__ 4y ago
I was thinking to do something like that, since heating got so expensive this year.
- Thlom 4y agoOne of the first crypto personalities in Norway did this back in 2011. Even had an article in the local paper. “Local man heats bathroom with his computer”. Basically he had water based heating in the floor on his bathroom and had hooked the water cooling on his computer to that. Even had a script that would “start doing heavy calculations” when the temperature sunk below a threshold. Reference: https://www.cw.no/it-bransjen-komponenter/bruker-pc-en-til-a-varme-opp-badet/247561 https://www.cw.no/it-bransjen-komponenter/bruker-pc-en-til-a...
- spyder 4y agoHeater that mines bitcoin :-D : https://www.heatbit.com/ https://www.heatbit.com/ https://www.engadget.com/2018-03-09-qarnot-qc1-cryptocurrency-heater-rig.html https://www.engadget.com/2018-03-09-qarnot-qc1-cryptocurrenc...
- foobarian 4y agoI was kinda considering this to use up the excess production from our solar panels, because the net metering is only returning a fraction of the market price. It will depend on the ROI from a small homelab-sized mining rig.
- Tijdreiziger 4y agoEven with the increase in prices, electric heating is still much more expensive than gas heating (unless you use a heat pump, but then you're not mining anything).