Bitfury - Mining Lighbulb - page 11.

RoadStress

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Quote from: kano on May 28, 2015, 12:10:57 AM

Reminds me of the first asicminer USBs ...
Wow new toy, gotta buy em ...
asicminer made a fortune selling them, but almost every single person who bought them paid more in BTC than they ever made in BTC.
But I guess that's normal for BTC miners, everyone always have a reason why it's OK why they lost BTC Tongue

This is what most people forget when they are bashing 21inc!

kano

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Linux since 1997 RedHat 4

Reminds me of the first asicminer USBs ...
Wow new toy, gotta buy em ...
asicminer made a fortune selling them (initially well over 2000% cost), but almost every single person who bought them paid more in BTC than they ever made in BTC.
But I guess that's normal for BTC miners, everyone always has a reason why it's OK why they lost BTC Tongue

Xian01

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Christian Antkow

Color me interested. Looking forward to more details.

RoadStress

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We want more infoz!

notlist3d

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Very neat idea do you have more details? I assume it's running wifi. What's the efficiency on electricity?

Thanks for sharing. Very cool.

dunand

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The bulb have to be connected to internet in some way. They just need a simple interface to activate or deactivate mining (heat). In the summer you can just use the light. In the winter, you mine all the time. Or they can simply add on switch on the bulb.

alh

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So does it still mine, even after I turn off the switch?

Besides being a crazy stunt, what does it cost, what's the hashrate, and what's it's power draw?

Have the guys talked to 21 Inc.? Maybe they can get a $116 million cash infusion from a bunch of VC firms!