This seems like a pretty cool idea: instead of building the whole water heater, just replace the heating element with a bitcoin miner:
They say it's a DIY installation.
And there's an app:
They also have a thread on X with some details:
What do you say, SN miner people? Is this the Bitcoin water heater revolution?
so, the ASIC chips are stuck right into the water tank...? Unsure
This is great they made it into a existing form factor.
I am curious to see the power source.
What does the ac to dc convertor look like?
From the below picture it would appear to be small.
Looks awesome 🔥
Hell yeah and hell yeah respectively!
I am a little interested to know how they're getting 12J/Th. Aren't BM1370s typically 15J/Th? They must have developed some very serious auto-tuning software.
Looks like it!
Beautiful 😍
Great idea.
smart
Form factor is brilliant, plug and play. The waste heat at-loss mining prophecy will be fulfilled.
Standard element is only $50 or so, so about $850 in premium, according to Grok math the payback is 2-3 years. Element should last 5-10.