Hacker News Reader

You're running a "resistive heater" which turns 1 unit of electricity into 1 unit of heat.

Heat Pumps can "pump" heat from the outside into the house, and this get more than 1 unit of heat from 1 unit of electricity.

View on HN

Obviously we need a heat pump crypto miner

True, but if you're already running bitcoin miners, then you can turn off or get rid of the heat pump and save on your aggregate heating costs.

It depends. Only if your (resistive-pump) cost difference is lower than your Bitcoin gains. That will depend on your geographical location though and the current BTC price.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com