Space heater and lottery miner

my fantasy: if i ever manage to get some property somewhere with one or two consistent sources of renewable energy (solar, flowing water, wind, geothermal), i'd set up some kind of home mining rig to turn that free energy into sats.

I've met more people that I expected to who mine at home in Austin.

I've been meaning to grab an old miner for space heating just for learning more about mining software.

I did it in 2014. Now I don't mine, but bitcoin is mine :)) Hope you don't mind... 😁

You aren't a Bitcoiner if you aren't contributing to the hashrate imo.

It doesn't have to be expensive - you can mine with older/cheaper hardware via solar essentially for free - just set it up so it turns itself on and off with the sun.

#getoffzero !

nope. not at all cost effective. pools, asics and commercial mining firms destroyed the notion of worthwhile individual mining.

On day...

Electricity is 1634 sats per kWh here. I'm not going to subsidize mining and if I get solar panels I'll use them for other purposes.

Electricity is very expensive in my country.

But I have an electrician friend with some spare solar panels and expertise is wiring everything up. We've thought about setting up a small operation starting with one ASIC.

I'm a little nervous about spending that much money on an ASIC and not having it arrive or something but I would like to give it a go.

I haven't been, but I'm planning on using some idle computing power for it this winter, when I can use the waste heat.

I'd be curious to hear someone weigh in on the viability of using normal laptops and desktops for mining.

To high electricity cost over here