An unexpected benefit to Bitcoin mining. A BTC miner saved a man stuck in a cold caravan after his propane gas heater stopped working.
Timewarp to 2020 and Schmid got “very active again,” as concerns about the “endless money printing” troubled him.
“It makes much more sense to replace a resistive heater with a Bitcoin miner, as both of them will turn electricity into heat, while the Bitcoin miner also generates Bitcoin.” After a series of iterations and a few superficial burns, a short circuit and one day in which the airstream’s ambient temperature rivaled a Scandinavian sauna: “[I] got the airstream inside temperature to 90F [32 degrees Celsius] during one day as the heater was running while it shouldn't,” Schmid finally cracked it.
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