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Turns out that getting those certifications are seemingly like dealing with the mob. Pay to play. Costs money to get the approval. Part of the approval requires submitting extensive documentation on how the product is built, how it's controlled. Failsafes, safety procedures, etc... All of this is effectively impossible if your product is a retrofitted, closed-source, Chinese miner. AKA 99% of machines.
So I'm a big believer that an open mining stack, and systems designed from the ground up at the ASIC chip level to be building infrastructure will be much easier to certify.
Supporting the 256 Foundation (https://256foundation.org) is where I think attention is best put right now.
It can be done with the retrofitting route. But it's a headache. Plus who wants to spend time building a product around S19 hashboards - and then have the S21 hashboard change form factor on you. Frustrating!
Another thing we need to bridge the gap on is the building codes. Which are per county, city, state and national. Big rule book. Really depends on the location on how strict things are.
If we want plumbers / HVAC guys to offer these products to normal people, need to pass all the codes.
Turns out, there's no such things as a building code for an immersion fluid heating system with bitcoin computers inside lol. Things like that!
Big learning in year one was we needed to get organized. So many awesome plebs had innovated, solved their own problems for hashrate heating and home mining. So the forum (https://forum.heatpunks.org) was created to curate and store that shared knowledge.
Year two we learned the importance of an open source mining stack. Particularly necessary for everyone trying to do unique things with miners - AKA use them in energy and building infrastructure systems. They need to be controlled as such, and waiting for the closed firmware manufacturers to offer features for us, a relatively small niche market, is a non starter. Have to build it ourselves. That's why I'm thrilled to be a part of the 256 Foundation now.
In Feb 2027 for year three, I want to highlight the BS regulatory space better. CE/UL certifications, home insurance, standards. All the things required to get ASIC miners acceptable as home and business heating appliances. All those stickers on the side of your furnace and water heater are necessary if you want your home insurance to cover a hashrate heater. at least in the states.