Re:Bitcoin mining heats homes for free in Siberia [video]
by vlunkr on Friday November 03, 2017 @01:35PM
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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.
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Re:Bitcoin mining heats homes for free in Siberia [video]
by rzzzt on Friday November 03, 2017 @02:14PM
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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
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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
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Check out https://www.nerdalize.com