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Re:Love Bug worm's creator tracked down to repair shop in Ma... by a1369209993 on Sunday May 03, 2020 @05:40PM (#23062064)
Sometime last year, someone had writeup where they worked out that buying enough gas (I forget if "natural" or "-oline") to mine 1 bitcoin, ignoring fixed costs like the generator or GPU, would cost them ~1.2 BTC. That might change if you live near a oil well/refinery/coal mine, but I'd kinda like to see a statistical analysis of whether bitcoin time-between-blocks varies with time of day based on which areas have excess solar power.
Re:Love Bug worm's creator tracked down to repair shop in Ma... by dzhiurgis on Sunday May 03, 2020 @06:02PM (#23062212)
I keep wondering can you design a solar panel that uses photonic bitcoin mining. That would be ridiculously efficient.
Re:Love Bug worm's creator tracked down to repair shop in Ma... by eli on Sunday May 03, 2020 @07:48PM (#23062869)
If you want to make money with solar seems like it’d be a lot easier to just sell the electricity back into the grid
Re:Love Bug worm's creator tracked down to repair shop in Ma... by autonoshitbox on Sunday May 03, 2020 @06:32PM (#23062441)
Only until everyone else has them too