Oddbean new post about login | logout I'm hearing about small Bitcoin mining rigs that can mine and use the heat generated to heat your place.. this could diversify out the mining pool to the point it is more that absolutely safe from any idea of hacking. And, you can save on heating your store, or house too. Amazing stuff.
I keep looking in this direction. With the cost of electricity in my area, mining for profit is a hard thing to do, but if I’m burning watts for heat anyway, then doing it whilst earning some return makes sense. Now to figure out how to build a miner into a cadet heater housing…
For me the problem is how to direct the hot air into the duct system..?
Do you have a traditional furnace? If so you may be able to set up a series of dampers to open a bypass around the main duct and blow air over the miner and then back into the supply when heat is called for and when no heat is needed lose the dampers and run the miner and exhaust the heat elsewhere, garage, attic, outside. Then you could setup the miner to be your stage 1 heat with stage 2 bring your current furnace heat source.