Re:Bitcoin mining heats homes for free in Siberia [video]
by khedoros1 on Friday November 03, 2017 @05:14PM
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It's resistive heating that does something that most resistive heating doesn't do: generate some level of additional income in the form of cryptocurrency.
Re:Bitcoin mining heats homes for free in Siberia [video]
by Retric on Friday November 03, 2017 @07:12PM
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Only if you need full power heat 24/7 365. If you ever want to turn it off then it's costing you deprecation on very expensive hardware, vs a simple heating element.
Remember, few things need constant heat output 24/7 365, otherwise your going to want to generate some or all of your heat from other sources.
Strictly speaking, isn't it just a special case of resistive heating?