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This Guy Heated Bath Water With Bitcoin Mining and It Worked Too Well
• https://motherboard.vice.com/ by Jordan PearsonFor hobbyists trying to strike it rich with cryptocurrency mining, but who don't have access to gigantic warehouses where they can park the hardware, making money means packing a bunch of very loud and very hot computers into your house or apartment.
Some at-home cryptocurrency miners are harnessing the heat that powerful mining equipment—called ASICs—give off. Motherboard's Daniel Oberhaus used mining equipment (albeit graphics cards, not ASICs) to stay warm during a storm once, and a Redditor posting under the handle "gta3uzi" just took it to another level. In a Tuesday post by gta3uzi on the /r/Bitcoin subreddit, they revealed a system for heating hot water using ASICs so you can make money while you chill in a steamy bath.
"Imagine a crypto heated swimming pool, or anything else you could heat with the output from a small, medium, or large-scale mining operation," gta3uzi wrote on Reddit. Some of their suggestions for using the hot water include creating a sauna, heating a home, drying one's hair, and even cooking a steak sous vide.