A Bitcoin miner is heating his entire swimming pool so his kids can swim–all while securing the Bitcoin network and making money.
A Bitcoiner has “pooled” off another mining innovation. The ‘waste’ heat generated by mining Bitcoin (BTC) is used to warm his swimming pool. Bitcoin enthusiast Jonathan Yuan had kids who “love swimming, but the year before [he started using waste heat], they barely ever did it because it was always too cold for them.” Fortunately, he was interested in Bitcoin mining and understood that Bitcoin mining emits a lot of heat. Yuan told Cointelegraph that he purchased a “heat exchanger and setup some ASICs,” (application-specific integrated circuits), and subsequently managed to keep “the pool above 90F all summer.” The process works by immersion, which simultaneously cools the ASICs while “reclaiming that waste heat and putting it to practical applications such as heating living/
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