Winter across the U.S. means big bills for home heating oil, gas and electric furnaces, but in some cases, crypto like bitcoin is paying to keep Americans warm.
  • tuff_wizard@aussie.zone
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    22 days ago

    I’d like to see some figures on this. Considering this is just standard resistance elements heating you could assume it’s 100% efficient. But heat pumps can approach 400-500% efficiency so there’s a good chance that even if you did include the money earned from bitcoin you’d be better off doing no bitcoin mining and just using a heat pump