anyone using miners as space heaters is likely buying old less efficient miners at much lower prices than the latest models. professional miners should be happy to take almost any price for old miners, the old units are taking up valuable space in the warehouse mining farms that could be used for new efficient mining units. as long as Siberians (or Greenlanders/Finlanders/Norwegians etc) can get some money back from the electricity, it will seem like a win.
Old miners?
At the current difficulty is we go back one generation to the s7 that thing has a 1/4 return on the electricity it consumes.
If you're going to tell me that a miner drawing 1300w and making somewhere from 70 to 80 Db in full load is an alternative and just as efficient as a normal 1000w heater....common, let's be objective and honest about it, not everything that is related to bitcoin is automatically better than everything we had till now.
Old miners are loud, inefficient when it comes to actual heating, inefficient it getting any rewards, this is why the proposed model is using a totally different way of releasing the hear.
if they can really beat the price down on old miners, people using miners to heat their homes could make a profit, but getting a good price for an old miner is the key to that.
You can get them for 40-50 plus shipping, same as a 700w to 1000w heater but without any damn warranty.
Are 10$ month worth the noise and the hassle? I doubt it for anyone living in Northern Europe.
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Are you sure about this? Because I have heard that the natural gas pipeline to China
is almost 100% complete. The pipeline will run through Eastern Siberia, and will deliver natural gas to northeast China. If I am not wrong, there is already a crude oil pipeline running through that area. I know that East Siberia is sparsely populated...
Yeah,
almost complete because the was no pipeline there.
I'm not going to post it, rather put the link since it's quite a big map:
https://www.gazprom.com/f/posts/15/301731/map-develop-2019-06-27-en.jpg.jpgbut a few years back they had this scheme of offering the citizens free land to move to that area... I don't know what happened to that...
The usual Russian bullshit propaganda