Home Heating with Bitcoin Miners Is Now a Real Thing

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This would make sense if not for the fact that heat pumps are far more effective at heating homes than simply sending electricity through a heating element.

Heat pumps don’t make you sweet, sweet bitcoins…

There was a company in France, I believe, which offered heaters that had builtin computers to render 3d graphics and heat the space. Not sure what happened to them or if they’re still around.

There is a lot of electric heating in the world and all of it should be performing computation rather than just sending load through a resistor.

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