Non-Bitcoin Uses for Old ASIC Miners? - page 2.

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Quote from: Geremia on March 13, 2015, 08:24:59 PM

Can I use an old ASIC Bitcoin miner for other applications? For example, quickly reindexing the blockchain on my computer? Or quickly hashing every file on my hard-drive?

(I really wonder if the hard-drive could even supply the data to the miner fast enough, and the computer's CPU would probably have to be involved, translating the data for the miner, so that would be a bottleneck…)

I live in Canada... my miners heat up my entire office in colder months (until May or June)
During the summer, not much else than mine and dry out my office & garage.
I also used it to dry wood and other things, they make great dehumidifiers.
As a matter of fact, they do not remove the moisture, but dry the crap out of it.
Anything that needs heat and/or drying, Bitcoin miners excel at.

Hope this helps...

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Some of them could make neat decoration. If you put up blades in your mining area, or unique parts.

Would be fun to have all the old parts on the wall. And if you can get leds to light up on blades and such would be even neater.

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Have you folks ever seen a "Take a whack at a car" for like $1. You get a baseball bat and each swing at the car costs you a $1 (or whatever). Kind of an aggression therapy deal. I'll bet there are some specific miners that could be useful. Some of the gear is pretty sturdy, and you could always charge more than $1 a swing. For example, a BFL Monarch looks pretty fragile, and wouldn't survive many whacks, but I'll bet some of the KNC gear could take a real beating. I'll also bet a BFL Single would survive a while.

You'd have to organize your own local event, since I don't see a good way to organize this over the Internet.

I'll also bet that you could charge more depending on the manufacturer. I think you could get top dollar for BFL gear in general.

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Quote from: philipma1957 on March 18, 2015, 08:36:37 AM

Quote from: MCHouston on March 17, 2015, 12:55:50 PM

When my Antminer C1's get old, I plan to use them to heat the swimming pool water.

Now this is a very good idea. If you get this working post a few photos.

Need a sacrifice anode.... the chlorine water will be bad for your gear...

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Quote from: MegaFall on March 18, 2015, 02:01:39 PM

Umm... mining when the price shoots through the roof and the difficulty plummets after the mining reward halves to zero; but would still be profitable for those who stay plugged in. If BTC goes mainstream and there are millions of transactions a day, you'll see fees per block being $100+. Honestly, I still have a BFL 50 GH/s unit in a box for the future.

Price is never gonna go through the roof, sorry to burst ur bubble. Its never going mainstream. Its not trustless like claimed.

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Umm... mining when the price shoots through the roof and the difficulty plummets after the mining reward halves to zero; but would still be profitable for those who stay plugged in. If BTC goes mainstream and there are millions of transactions a day, you'll see fees per block being $100+. Honestly, I still have a BFL 50 GH/s unit in a box for the future.

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Space heaters, door stops, or target practice is about it. Some of the HashFast units can be parted out and sold off like the Corsair fans and PSU.

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They make great shooting targets =)

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Quote from: MCHouston on March 17, 2015, 12:55:50 PM

When my Antminer C1's get old, I plan to use them to heat the swimming pool water.

Now this is a very good idea. If you get this working post a few photos.

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When my Antminer C1's get old, I plan to use them to heat the swimming pool water.

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Quote from: -ck on March 13, 2015, 09:51:22 PM

The 4 most valid alternative uses for outdated asic miners depend on the size of the device in question, and they are: Boat anchor, door stop, book end and paper weight.

If you live in a warm hot place you are correct .
But if you live in a cold place.
They are good for space heaters and will always be good for replacing this

no miner should own the item above as long as your miner works and earns any bitcoin at all it is a suitable replacement for this electric space heater.

My home needs one for about 90 days a year So I can always fire up any miner that makes about 700-900 watts of heat rather then fire up the space heater. I can mine it at your solo pool. ck

Most likely this is what I will be doing with my avalon's next nov to march spot heating my cold room.

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Home security. If it has a fixed court attached, you may be able to use it like a flail.

Pest control. If it's a mouse or bigger, you strangle it woh the cord, if its smaller you crush it.

Car warmer. Run it under your engine block in the winter.

Hard boiled egg maker.

Christmas tree ornament.

Cloud mining. Show pictures of it as proof of your operation before you take people's money and run.

Etc.

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Altcoin mining (technically not bitcoin lol)
Alternately the ONLY reusable part of the miners would bet he controller boards (rasPI and Beagleboards) on various models.

If you got a PSU that would be about the only truly reusable part. Strip connectors for use in other things or fans and heatsinks.

In reality IF you had some electronics project you were thinking of you could strip the silicon and possibly reuse it. Of course this is some advanced work you would be doing. Involves working some machine code to reprogram various parts of the boards themselves.

But yea if none of the above applies, IMO the controller boards being the most accessible and usable part of a miner, Bick and -ck comment on usage applies.

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Quote from: -ck on March 13, 2015, 09:51:22 PM

The 4 most valid alternative uses for outdated asic miners depend on the size of the device in question, and they are: Boat anchor, door stop, book end and paper weight.

Pretty much.

Recycle them.

Don't use them as space heaters.

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How about mining a SHA-256 altcoin?
See here
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For some reason, OpenSourceCoin mining is now much more efficient that BTC mining..

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An outdated miner if sufficiently quiet and wifi connectable does have an alternative use as a space heater. Generally unless you need baseload heat you don't want to use a miner for heating if it's going to be an intermittent load since it's a waste of the capital cost of the miner to only run it some of the time. I've actually got a few underclocked S1s behind my couch in the front room, which can get a little drafty. They're not worth running anymore from an economic point of view, but I've turned off the heating element in the electric fireplace in that room and now anytime my wife would have turned on the fireplace, she instead turns on the miners to give the room a bit of extra warmth.

Not really a non-bitcoin use, but it's a non-dedicated mining use.

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Ruu \o/

The 4 most valid alternative uses for outdated asic miners depend on the size of the device in question, and they are: Boat anchor, door stop, book end and paper weight.

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Quote from: Geremia on March 13, 2015, 09:33:21 PM

Quote from: TheRealSteve on March 13, 2015, 09:17:21 PM

SHA256 is everything it claims to be

Well, technically, SHA(SHA(•)).

Sure, but if SHA256 is broken (in such a way that you could exploit it), SHA256(SHA256()) should be equally broken, is what I was getting at

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Quote from: TheRealSteve on March 13, 2015, 09:17:21 PM

SHA256 is everything it claims to be

Well, technically, SHA(SHA(•)).

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