Thanks for sharing. It feels great to be reminded once in a while of real world examples where bitcoin mining actually goes completely counter to the narrative we have all heard so much. Yes, the miners’ heat output can be put to good use, and yes, not all miners run on fossil fuel. Proof of work has nothing inherently “evil”, it is a great feature with awesome implications.
I did find awkward the commentary around using energy use as an assessment of how advanced a civilization is (the whole Kardashev reference). I mean, I get that it looks to be a good and consistent measure for our own civilization: our energy output is certainly greater now than what it was when mankind was drawing stick figures in caves… but this line of thinking could be dangerous. What if there is a threshold where more energy use eventually leads to a civilization’s demise? It may not be as linear as suggested… We need to be factoring in efficiency. And to that point, the whiskey distillery certainly leads by example.
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cool beans.
Excellent video. Thank you.
This is an excellent production.
Humans fight amongst each other over petty differences too much. We will never hit type 1 at this rate
Wow, this is the future of clean heating!
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Thanks for sharing. It feels great to be reminded once in a while of real world examples where bitcoin mining actually goes completely counter to the narrative we have all heard so much. Yes, the miners’ heat output can be put to good use, and yes, not all miners run on fossil fuel. Proof of work has nothing inherently “evil”, it is a great feature with awesome implications.
I did find awkward the commentary around using energy use as an assessment of how advanced a civilization is (the whole Kardashev reference). I mean, I get that it looks to be a good and consistent measure for our own civilization: our energy output is certainly greater now than what it was when mankind was drawing stick figures in caves… but this line of thinking could be dangerous. What if there is a threshold where more energy use eventually leads to a civilization’s demise? It may not be as linear as suggested… We need to be factoring in efficiency. And to that point, the whiskey distillery certainly leads by example.
Great video!
I want to see more about the rotating miner. Is the improved heat exchange really worth the rotation mechanism?
Yeah but why would you use a modern heat pump instead of a mining rig? who cares about a 60-80% efficiency drop…
I’m a huge bitcoiner, a lot of us are, why currently aren’t we heating our homes?
LOVE this video!