this zerohedge article got me thinking about what i dont know. As Energy Costs Soar, Home Bitcoin-Mining Is Going To Heat Europe | ZeroHedge it looks like they dont ship to us but the idea of harvesting some heat from a btc mining op is interesting. i dont know shit about crypto other then basic stuff. on their web site it looks like a 1100$ setup would yield about 800wats of heat. i have heated the bus with a 1500 watt elec oil filled radiator but it was expensive. im not familiar enough with btc to figure out how much a setup like this would offset the cost of feeding it. and i think it would be a homemade deal. im not aware of a us made thing like this, gov auction has pallets of pc and laptop that might work? my starlink plan gives me 500gb for 165 a month and i use 80 or so of it,,,, so i also dont know if 400gb is enough to run a btc mine. eventually i think the dollar will shit the bed and it kinda looks like crypto will replace it. gold/silver are great but i dont have nearly enough. soooo with out crapping on opsec too much what do my fellow simians think? can you really recover enough btu from a btc mine to matter? https://21energy.com/products/ofen-pro
To have a prayer of making money at BTC mining, you need top-level hardware, clean/reliable power to protect the equipment, and reliable internet access. Big money firms play in this space. You probably can make some money mining other coins, but the margins are likely razor-thin.
home scale mining even alt-coins is a money losing proposition in the past maybe 3-4 years. every once in a while a new alt-coin pops up that you can mine and immediately swap to BTC or other coin but within weeks or months, it again goes unprofitable. I've got a solar mining rig that I pool mine using a few of GeckkoScience 2Pac USB miners in a 5V hub off a Raspberry PI miner with a radio internet connection (25 Mbit at best). It draws about 25 Watts total. I think it's probably mined 0.000025 or about 3.00USD worth of bitcoin every year for the past 5 years. It would be about 30.00 per year in electricity to run it but the radio internet runs about 20 dollars a month plus 15 in electricity. It runs off grid power if the batteries need charging. It's basically free as the internet is for my use and neighboring camps. To actually be profitable, you'd need free energy or as noted above, co-generation where the money was being made on heat and bitcoin is a happy byproduct. Profitable mining rigs make anywhere between 2.50USD to 40.00USD per day but they each draw from 3KW - 12KW and initial investment (not including beefing up your wiring and adding cooling systems) from 3k-30k USD. So payback might be years .. or never depending on bitcoin price and solving difficulty. If you are going to do it .. do it for fun ... not profit. Or .. just go out and buy BitCoin if you want it.
