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 If you could buy a “lottery bitcoin miner” would you?

the idea would be to help decentralization of mining/pools by appealing to a new type of hobbiest miner who is in it for the fun/lulz… not aiming for scaling/optimizing a mining business

imagine you could pay $10/month to rent a simple bitcoin miner. Plug it in to an electrical socket at your home, connect it to wifi. maybe have some gaming mechanic related to lotto ticket scratchers, but ultimately you have a very small chance to win something very big — maybe something close to a block reward or more each week

does this sound interesting? maybe it wouldn’t appeal to you, but could you imagine other people who it would appeal to? a lot of people play state lotteries. bitcoin mining has a credibly neutral “random” lottery-like reward

just sayin… 
 Why rent instead of just a flat purchase? I’m generally against any subscriptions. 
 Yeah, maybe that’s a better model. I dunno what such a thing might cost, but I was assuming it might be easier to get over the hump for a new thing like this.

core idea is that paying for your electricity would be like paying for your lottery tickets, no other technical understanding/analysis required 
 I think that's just cloud mining. Decent marketing angle though. 
 i was imagining people could host the miner in their home and maybe interact with it somehow to “play” 
 Nerdminer seems a cheap option for that:
https://github.com/BitMaker-hub/NerdMiner_v2?tab=readme-ov-file 
 oh this is cool, thanks for sharing. might be more of simplifying ordering and a marketing angle to it? 
 I think someone already did that too:
https://nerdminers.com/ 
 yes! 🙌🙌 
 But a fun project could be mining on colab notebooks. Not sure if works, but would be fun! 
 meaning like a jupyter notebook? 
 Exactly. The google colab has gpus as well I think for "free". In return for your personal details of course. I guess it does not work as good as an ASIC, but could be better than a gpu. 
 Sell it at the conference right next to the beer stand. Will be sold out in first few hours. 
 🔑 💡 
 Yes, I would! Because it offers the small chance of a lucky win, but at the same time supports two of the most important things in the world today: decentralization and Bitcoin.