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57 sats \ 6 replies \ @jasonb OP 16h \ parent \ on: The long, boring middle iteration... bitcoin_Mining
We’re about to find out! Hahaha
So, at the current speed, I’m going to have the beefcakes setup just in time to turn them off…which sucks. Ideally I’ll feel confident enough at that point to rip the fans off and go immersion. I can then transfer the heat to my water heater and cut a hole in the side of my house for the excess…or just turn them off.
The problem is, when I go immersion, I could go the schnitzel route, which I’m probably not smart enough to do, or the Dane O route, which I probably can’t afford yet.
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50 sats \ 5 replies \ @siggy47 16h
I have never heard of these companies before. Intriguing!
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36 sats \ 4 replies \ @jasonb OP 15h
I met schnitzel down in nashville in January. Super cool guy! I bought the PDU (pictured below, I can’t wait to hook up this Goliath) for this project from Dane O.
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50 sats \ 3 replies \ @siggy47 15h
You are deep into this stuff! What got you started?
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36 sats \ 2 replies \ @jasonb OP 13h
When old friends ask what’s new, these days I lead verbatim with, “well, for one thing, I’ve become a radicalized bitcoiner.”
I think I bought my first s9 after hearing about Gridless Compute, which is a mining company in Kenya that brings power to rural areas by making hydro power profitable. My shoot-the-moon goal would be to move my family to Africa and work with them or one of the other Green Africa Mining Alliance companies.
Also, beyond the way we’re all nuts about how powerful this tool is for good, I’m convinced that Bitcoin’s current biggest weakness has to be mining pool centralization. I’m on my phone now and can’t find it, but I made a post sometime last year about how unimpressed I was with some industrial miners I met at the bitcoin magazine conference.
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 13h
I remember that post. I think the consensus is that big miners don't necessarily know much or care much about bitcoin beyond fiat NGU. You have a worthy dream. Do you think you could relocate to Africa in the near future?
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb OP 13h
If I found a foothold, we would relocate immediately. Hence beefing up my home mining chops, trying to connect with anyone in the field… Honestly, my background is so out in left field, I think I have a hard time getting people in Bitcoin to take me seriously, but I have certainly jumped in full-force. I tutor one of the students with Bitcoin Ekasi every week and maybe have some light connections in South Africa, but I don’t want to teach much more than that.
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