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Re:Bitcoin mining heats homes for free in Siberia [video] by dragonwriter on Friday November 03, 2017 @04:44PM (#15622080)
> Whether it's money positive vs resistive heating

Strictly speaking, isn't it just a special case of resistive heating?

Re:Bitcoin mining heats homes for free in Siberia [video] by khedoros1 on Friday November 03, 2017 @05:14PM (#15622247)
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 (#15622847)
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.

Re:Bitcoin mining heats homes for free in Siberia [video] by mark-r on Friday November 03, 2017 @08:38PM (#15623194)
That's the brilliant part - doing it in Siberia where the heat is almost always welcome. Iceland might be good too.
Re:Bitcoin mining heats homes for free in Siberia [video] by Retric on Saturday November 04, 2017 @05:55AM (#15624385)
Siberia gets warm in the summer as in it can hit 100+f, and you need a lot of insulation minimal heating even at 50f. So, not really.