Topic: Bitcoin home heater idea (Read 2288 times)
if you submerge the radiator into an aquarium (with a lid, so it just drips back in) and then let the heat radiate to the room from there. Can get some fish that enjoys the warm water too.
Ah, I thought you were talking about those lifeforms called women. I can sometimes see them from my basement window.
Just start hanging out at steampunk conventions
Yeah, in average there is one of such creatures every 256 nerds.
Why not wire a wall thermostat into your serial port sense line to control the on/off.. The Bitcoin Boiler!
Ah, I thought you were talking about those lifeforms called women. I can sometimes see them from my basement window.
Just start hanging out at steampunk conventions
Ah, I thought you were talking about those lifeforms called women. I can sometimes see them from my basement window.
Why not just move the server? Either place it by the air intake for your house or use some cheap ducting to send the hot air where you want it....
Thanks, hadn't thought about that. In theory, I like it - some ducting along one air intake and some more for sending the hot air to the living room.
Although... visible ducting along the house gives it a bit of a bunker feeling, which tends to repel those creatures who are sensible to beauty.
And what creatures those might be?
Birds.
Why not just move the server? Either place it by the air intake for your house or use some cheap ducting to send the hot air where you want it....
Thanks, hadn't thought about that. In theory, I like it - some ducting along one air intake and some more for sending the hot air to the living room.
Although... visible ducting along the house gives it a bit of a bunker feeling, which tends to repel those creatures who are sensible to beauty.
And what creatures those might be?
E.g. say that, in total, I spend 1.5 hours time to take a decent picture of an item, write down a description, set up an auction, follow up on it, prepare the package and send it to the auction winner.
Those 1.5 hours I rate against the hourly net income I have in my current full time job. If the resulting amount is higher/close to the price of the item I'm selling, in my view by selling the item on eBay I'm actually wasting time.
Those 1.5 hours I rate against the hourly net income I have in my current full time job. If the resulting amount is higher/close to the price of the item I'm selling, in my view by selling the item on eBay I'm actually wasting time.
I understand this concept well, but do you really have a job that will let you clock 1.5 extra hours and get paid for them? If not this calculation is flawed. For people on a salary without easy opportunity to add additional dollars, any money gained over their salary has a higher utility value than the average dollar in that salary. That's because a large portion of their salary goes to fixed expenses.
That's a well valid point. Or I can also see it in a different way.
I value my free time, as with my current lifestyle it's a rare commodity to me.
And I can spend it in a million better ways (to me) than dealing with eBay auctions.
I think that's why I have so much stuff in my storage room
If I see it that way, my free time is even more expensive than my work time.
But then, by following such line of reasoning, I should stop working at all, which I surely can't afford doing.
So maybe to be correct, my fictitious eBay hourly rate is somehow a function of:
* how much I value getting extra money on top of my current salary (which in turn depends on how much money I am already making)
* how much I like/hate spending time doing eBay auctions.
Success always comes from the craziest ideas! 
Someone needs to come up with a heat-pump hasher then!
Oh, just buy it when you buy your house 
Bitcoin will be the heating system of the future!
Not good in hot climates
Bitcoin will be the heating system of the future!Not good in hot climates
Guys, consider the same thing made with ASIC 
Consider also it'll be a $30,000 heater. Though I expect, with major price drops in the future, it might make for a more practical venture.
Guys, consider the same thing made with ASIC
E.g. say that, in total, I spend 1.5 hours time to take a decent picture of an item, write down a description, set up an auction, follow up on it, prepare the package and send it to the auction winner.
Those 1.5 hours I rate against the hourly net income I have in my current full time job. If the resulting amount is higher/close to the price of the item I'm selling, in my view by selling the item on eBay I'm actually wasting time.
Those 1.5 hours I rate against the hourly net income I have in my current full time job. If the resulting amount is higher/close to the price of the item I'm selling, in my view by selling the item on eBay I'm actually wasting time.
I understand this concept well, but do you really have a job that will let you clock 1.5 extra hours and get paid for them? If not this calculation is flawed. For people on a salary without easy opportunity to add additional dollars, any money gained over their salary has a higher utility value than the average dollar in that salary. That's because a large portion of their salary goes to fixed expenses.
Nice idea! Unfortunately when the difficulty spike hits I'll have to stop GPU mining, because it's usually warm here, even in the winter.
sounds wicked.
Why not just move the server? Either place it by the air intake for your house or use some cheap ducting to send the hot air where you want it....
Thanks, hadn't thought about that. In theory, I like it - some ducting along one air intake and some more for sending the hot air to the living room.
Although... visible ducting along the house gives it a bit of a bunker feeling, which tends to repel those creatures who are sensible to beauty.
Why not just move the server? Either place it by the air intake for your house or use some cheap ducting to send the hot air where you want it....
For a personal project? Yes, I think it's great! I've thought about the same thing...
For a product to construct and sell? Not going to work... there's just not going to be enough profit in it vs the cost of the hardware inside. Even with free electricity, it will soon take 5-10 years of mining to pay off graphics cards with mining income. Extrapolate that down to months, and it'll only be a few $. Add in the cost of replacing broken hardware, and you're going to be SOL down the line no matter how you look at it.
Since you consider the hardware a sunk cost and not worth reselling, I think it still makes a great personal project. I always tried to find a way to make it work in the business world though, and concluded each time that it just wasn't worth it in any sense of the word.
For a product to construct and sell? Not going to work... there's just not going to be enough profit in it vs the cost of the hardware inside. Even with free electricity, it will soon take 5-10 years of mining to pay off graphics cards with mining income. Extrapolate that down to months, and it'll only be a few $. Add in the cost of replacing broken hardware, and you're going to be SOL down the line no matter how you look at it.
Since you consider the hardware a sunk cost and not worth reselling, I think it still makes a great personal project. I always tried to find a way to make it work in the business world though, and concluded each time that it just wasn't worth it in any sense of the word.
It's a great idea. A bitcoin mining server coupled with underfloor heating wich allow you to have water at a temperature not high like normal heating, so it's perfect for cooling hardware.
As for GPU, soon ASIC will comes out, and then GPU mining will be totally unprofitable.
As for GPU, soon ASIC will comes out, and then GPU mining will be totally unprofitable.
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