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Re:Bitcoin mining heats homes for free in Siberia [video] by vlunkr on Friday November 03, 2017 @01:35PM (#15620869)
Pretty clever, I've never thought about it like that. Basically they turned a computer into a heater that pays for itself plus some. Makes you think we should be building datacenters where the heat could be used, rather than just pumping it out.
Re:Bitcoin mining heats homes for free in Siberia [video] by rzzzt on Friday November 03, 2017 @02:14PM (#15621174)
There was an attempt to host servers in a similar setup in regular houses, not sure what happened to it (the article link doesn't seem to work, either): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9334792
Re:Bitcoin mining heats homes for free in Siberia [video] by blacksmith_tb on Friday November 03, 2017 @03:14PM (#15621576)
That was the premise behind this machine[1] (love the unintentionally humorous product rendering) but for some reason I haven't seen them popping up everywhere.

1: https://bitcoinnewsmagazine.com/bitmain-antminer-r4-home-bit...

Re:Bitcoin mining heats homes for free in Siberia [video] by aoner on Friday November 03, 2017 @10:47PM (#15623533)