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Re:Bitcoin mining heats homes for free in Siberia [video] by wallace_f on Friday November 03, 2017 @12:57PM (#15620588)
That's pretty reasonable, but let's get really serious--You can be more efficient than that. This winter I may buy a bicycle-electric generator, an inverter, and use it to power my laptop to mine bitcoins. This heating beats a mere 98% gas heater by capturing generated heat most efficiently: Directly inside my body. The remaining kinetic and electric energy heats my house. And since I need to lose weight anyways, the cost of electricity is less than zero. Infinite efficiency!

I can't wait to get rich and be warm this winter.

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Re:Bitcoin mining heats homes for free in Siberia [video] by adrianN on Saturday November 04, 2017 @01:12AM (#15623904)
You're doing it for weight loss, so the following is not interesting to you, but maybe other people think that bicycle generators are a good idea for generating electricity. They're not: http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/05/bike-powered-electric...
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Re:Bitcoin mining heats homes for free in Siberia [video] by wallace_f on Saturday November 04, 2017 @01:59AM (#15623996)
Which is exactly why transistors were a bad idea. We need mechanical-powered bitcoin miners.

I was actually just being tongue-in-cheek from the get-go.

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Re:Bitcoin mining heats homes for free in Siberia [video] by jaggederest on Friday November 03, 2017 @02:57PM (#15621480)
Ah, but the total efficiency of getting and consuming calories is quite poor. Unless you eat coal, in which case it's probably other problems that are primary.
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Re:Bitcoin mining heats homes for free in Siberia [video] by ph0rque on Friday November 03, 2017 @01:34PM (#15620864)
How many miles cycled = one bitcoin mined?
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Re:Bitcoin mining heats homes for free in Siberia [video] by wallace_f on Friday November 03, 2017 @02:17PM (#15621192)
I don't know, but according to this reddit post(1), I could hope to earn maybe 1 cent after a year of non-stop cycling.

But I would never be cold for a whole year.

1-https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6cf1wn/i_mined_bit...

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Re:Bitcoin mining heats homes for free in Siberia [video] by Hextinium on Friday November 03, 2017 @08:26PM (#15623145)
If you used Gridcoin then you would be using you computer for something more useful (doing science) and you would get better payout too!
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Re:Bitcoin mining heats homes for free in Siberia [video] by njarboe on Friday November 03, 2017 @02:09PM (#15621126)
To the moon.
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