Bitcoin-powered whiskey
Shelter Point likes to add a bit of heat to their barrels, which accelerates the whiskey’s aging process.
The application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) heat the room that contains the barrels.
The bitcoin hot tub
Peltan used the heat of the miners to raise the temperature of the water,
Bitcoin goes nuclear
Talen Energy Corp., which owns a nuclear power plant, entered into a joint venture with a bitcoin mining company called TeraWulf.
[...] will create “zero-carbon coins,”
[...] begin operation in mid-2022
Crypto tires
@GoingParabolic developed a patent that heats up a tire (without burning it), turns it to gas and then captures that gas stream and converts it to liquid fuel. That fuel becomes bitcoin.
The mine has been in operation since 2015.
Swimming in mining pools
@CoinHeated has used a combination of S9s and S17s to heat both his home and his 17,000-gallon swimming pool
Drill, baby, drill (and mine bitcoin)
Sometimes there’s no pipeline or means to ship it. This “stranded” natural gas is usually wasted … unless you’re using one of Barbour’s Upstream portable mining rigs.
Over 250 of Upstream’s portable miners are in operation.
Volcanic bitcoin
[El Salvador] Conchagua volcano, which emits geothermal energy, would soon power a bitcoin mine. A $1 billion “volcano bond” will fund the project.