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Re:Sandwell Bitcoin mine found stealing electricity by pengaru on Friday May 28, 2021 @12:16PM (#27317233)
> A heat pump would probably be more cost effective in the long run, but I didn't tell him that.

Last I checked, heat pumps didn't produce assets of potentially increasing value as a side effect of moving heat around.

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Re:Sandwell Bitcoin mine found stealing electricity by henvic on Friday May 28, 2021 @12:20PM (#27317300)
Last time I checked Bitcoin was a speculation madness.

https://henvic.dev/posts/bitcoin/

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Re:Sandwell Bitcoin mine found stealing electricity by capableweb on Friday May 28, 2021 @12:34PM (#27317471)
How does that come close to refuting the fact that using a Bitcoin miner as heating device also gives you Bitcoins, which the comment you replied to outlined?
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Re:Sandwell Bitcoin mine found stealing electricity by henvic on Friday May 28, 2021 @01:09PM (#27317959)
The comment didn't outline this obvious point.

It tried to compare it with heat pumps.

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Re:Sandwell Bitcoin mine found stealing electricity by teebs on Friday May 28, 2021 @12:18PM (#27317259)
You could always buy Bitcoin with the money you saved
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Re:Sandwell Bitcoin mine found stealing electricity by pengaru on Friday May 28, 2021 @12:49PM (#27317680)
Except you can purchase anonymity-preferred things more anonymously with the cryptocurrency you mined yourself...
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Re:Sandwell Bitcoin mine found stealing electricity by capableweb on Friday May 28, 2021 @12:35PM (#27317480)
Since we're talking about efficiency, that'd be less efficient than just getting Bitcoins straight up.
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