Here is why a run-of-the-mill cooler is actually the perfect home for a dorm-based Bitcoin miner. The humble university dorm is a place for students taking their undergraduate degrees to study, rest, make new friends, host wild dorm parties and, of course, mine Bitcoin (BTC). A master’s student in market research and self-described “data guy,”…
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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…
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When a propane gas heater stopped working, Bitcoin mining came to the rescue of a cold caravan in Colorado. Michael Schmid first made contact with Bitcoin (BTC) in 2013; he installed Bitcoin core, mined a few BTC then bought some Bitcoin from MtGox. Schmid told Cointelegraph that shortly after the infamous Mt. Gox hack, in…
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