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2239 sats \ 12 comments \ @jasonb 17h bitcoin_Mining

Just leaving this summary picture up top as that's all I really want to share with this post...

I'm on a long journey of trying to heat every aspect of my life with bitcoin mining. I started just running s9 antminers in the garage, moved to using a number of Nano 3¹ as extremely ineffective space heaters, but finally was generously given some beefcake miners for free last month.

I'm going to shove those bad boys right into my HVAC's air return, so I experimented first with a single s9 while figuring out how to power the big ones.

However, I'm using an electrician who is a friend² to put in the circuit and he's not as motivated as me. In the meantime, he had me drill these holes for the conduit, which was quite fun.

Now, I'm chomping at the bit to finish this and had a big passage to run some ethernet through in the meantime. ...so....I popped another s9 on the air return just to do SOMETHING.

Anywho, thought I'd share for other aspiring low-level heat punks like myself or anybody that wants to tell me I'm killing the resale value of my house by turning the HVAC into swiss cheese.

check out @siggy47's great post today on the next variant of that model ↩
who was successfully orange pilled in this process, woot! ↩

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50 sats \ 2 replies \ @userbob6 16h

Have you found a block yet?

107 sats \ 1 reply \ @jasonb OP 14h

Nice try, fed!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @userbob6 13h

Ill be writing this in my report as a 'maybe'

50 sats \ 7 replies \ @siggy47 17h

I'm very jealous. You are an inspiration. One question. What do you do during the summer?

57 sats \ 6 replies \ @jasonb OP 17h

We’re about to find out! Hahaha

So, at the current speed, I’m going to have the beefcakes setup just in time to turn them off…which sucks. Ideally I’ll feel confident enough at that point to rip the fans off and go immersion. I can then transfer the heat to my water heater and cut a hole in the side of my house for the excess…or just turn them off.

The problem is, when I go immersion, I could go the schnitzel route, which I’m probably not smart enough to do, or the Dane O route, which I probably can’t afford yet.

50 sats \ 5 replies \ @siggy47 16h

I have never heard of these companies before. Intriguing!

36 sats \ 4 replies \ @jasonb OP 15h

I met schnitzel down in nashville in January. Super cool guy! I bought the PDU (pictured below, I can’t wait to hook up this Goliath) for this project from Dane O.

50 sats \ 3 replies \ @siggy47 15h

You are deep into this stuff! What got you started?

36 sats \ 2 replies \ @jasonb OP 14h

When old friends ask what’s new, these days I lead verbatim with, “well, for one thing, I’ve become a radicalized bitcoiner.”

I think I bought my first s9 after hearing about Gridless Compute, which is a mining company in Kenya that brings power to rural areas by making hydro power profitable. My shoot-the-moon goal would be to move my family to Africa and work with them or one of the other Green Africa Mining Alliance companies.

Also, beyond the way we’re all nuts about how powerful this tool is for good, I’m convinced that Bitcoin’s current biggest weakness has to be mining pool centralization. I’m on my phone now and can’t find it, but I made a post sometime last year about how unimpressed I was with some industrial miners I met at the bitcoin magazine conference.

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SwapMarket 26m

Glad I live in a warm climate

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