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Re:Is Bitcoin a Waste of Electricity, or Something Worse? by JudasGoat on Friday March 02, 2018 @12:53AM (#16499411)
As a New England resident I was always curious about the heat output efficiency of a miner compared to electric resistance heating. Somebody really wants that waste heat. If only it were useful in warm weather...
Re:Is Bitcoin a Waste of Electricity, or Something Worse? by bb88 on Friday March 02, 2018 @01:02AM (#16499455)
So moving an electron generates heat. While we use transistors at the low level to do the computation, the method they work by is shuttling electrons through substrates, which have some kind of inherent resistance.

So it's all I^2R heat losses.