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EGregtoday at 3:19 AM3 repliesview on HN

Seriously, the only way I would accept Bitcoin mining is as a winter heating source that pays for itself. Why can't people sell those?


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yellowcake0today at 8:30 AM

The economics of bitcoin mining dictate that the work must have no other utility. If you increase its profitability by using it for auxiliary winter heating, then more people will mine bitcoin until there is an oversupply of heating and we return to the current equilibrium amount of "wasted" heat.

wmftoday at 4:01 AM

Those exist but they're too expensive to pay back their cost. And heat pumps are 3x the efficiency of resistive heating.

anon84873628today at 5:55 AM

Unfortunately, Bitcoin mining is pretty hot as far as regular computer use goes, but not very hot at all compared to burning some fuel.