I never really got the idea of Bitcoin as a battery, but this is making it a little more real: using excess solar to power your miners!
Open source mining firmware + AI = unstoppable. ⚡
For years, people have tried to chase excess solar power with bitcoin miners. Stock firmware doesn't let you adjust power at all. Third-party firmware was too slow, some even restarted mining every time you changed the target.
@256FOUNDATION & @ryankuester's Mujina just solved that.
In this video: what I've been building with @ry3t_official for their upcoming RY3T NOVA. ☀️
It tracks a power target anywhere from 1,000W to 3,000W, stepless, within seconds.
Connect it to your inverter or smart home and turn excess solar into sats, instead of selling it back to the grid for pennies.
NOVA scales to 1-3 miners, up to 9kW. 🔋Learn more at https://t.co/UQQssQ2ri3 (CH and EU currently - interested other places? let me know)
A lot more coming in the next few weeks. Open source bitcoin mining hardware + software + AI is about to get very interesting. 🚀
I don't think of it as a battery, so much as a grid stabilizer (which batteries also can be).
Isn't the idea that you can have both more inexpensive baseload power and more variable power sources when there are bitcoin miners to absorb the slack?
Yes, that's how I see it, but I remember that bitcoin is a battery was a popular metaphor among some of the more woo-woo bitcoiners some years ago.
My understanding of schnitzel's thing here is that you might expect residential solar and home Bitcoin mining to be a great fit: when the sun is shining and you aren't using much power, your miners could grab the extra watts. But I think the problem has been that in the residential solar case, miners would need to vary how much they were drawing based on how much energy people in the house were using. And it seems this was nontrivial.
He has some custom mining firmware that solves this problem and it seems pretty cool.
Ideally it wouldn't even be based on your own home usage but the broader usage in your grid.
https://twiiit.com/Schnitzel/status/2075204573778862217