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That's what I found to be strange too. Why was it ever considered?
by modarts 13y ago
That's what I found to be strange too. Why was it ever considered?
- Daniel_Newby 13y agoCustomers with a low cost of electricity and a hot GPU could have used it to offset the cost of their subscription. They would not have needed to learn anything about Bitcoin or manage their own financial account.
- bigiain 13y agoHmmm, I wonder if you could somehow plot bitcoin mining rates against location and temperature/climate? I wonder if there are people who selectively turn on their mining boxen to use as room heaters, effectively getting the computation (and bitcoins) "for free" since they'd be consuming the power for heating anyway?
- skarmklart 13y agoYes, it's not unheard of.
- modarts 13y agoThoughts like this are why I love this site.
- bigiain 13y ago"the company considered" has a quite wide range of possible interpretations. It could mean anything from "a few developers bullshitted about it in the lunch room", through to "the board oversaw prototype development and approved a pilot deployment to measure public response" - which are _clearly_ very different scenarios. Unfortunately, while it's easy to distinguish those two meanings at a large company, as you try to distinguish the intent at smaller and smaller companies, the differences become much harder to judge - in the degenerate case of a two-person company, "two dev's bullshitting" and "board oversight and approval" are exactly the same thing...