At the end of the day all electronics are just space heaters with interesting side effects. It's getting cold and I'm using my GPU to heat my living space, it just happens to emit computation as well. Gotta keep gaming to capture the excess value!
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I did this several years back in university. Bitcoin mining wasn’t really profitable on my GPU, BUT it made enough to pay for its own electricity. I considered crypto to be a wash, but the real profit came from free heat.
At the end of the day, all work* is just the production of heat with interesting side effects. Entropy is a cruel mistress.
*in the physics sense
Maybe add some mass for inertia with a cast iron case so that it’ll continue to heat even after being turned off.
I remember there was an attempt to get around the EU ban of incandescent bulbs by selling them as space heaters that conveniently happened fit into lamp sockets.