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Ok. Gonna have to do some research. Have no idea what you are referring to but sounds super interesting!
It’s an ‘electric space heater ‘ that mines bitcoin to make heat. 😀
It’s like 1/2 of a S21 ASIC but almost silent and can run on a household circuit.
Amazing product.
I concur with your review
Cc: nostr:npub1zzmxvr9sw49lhzfx236aweurt8h5tmzjw7x3gfsazlgd8j64ql0sexw5wy this is the one I was telling you about.
Might be time to swap out the S9 or buy one of these for my upstairs
sold out for EU 😭 😭
Sounds like you have a bread maker 😁
What’s it hashing at ?
What kind of heat source do you typically run? I have been so curious about these but our electric costs in NE USA are outrageous, I feel like it would cost a fortune to run.
We typically use wood for our sole heat source since it’s abundant and (nearly) free.
Eco (54.19 TH/s, 843W)
Normal (80.71 TH/s, 1403W)
High (90 TH/s, 1674W)
My home has a 30 year old electric forced air furnace, a small wood stove and a fireplace.
I cut the power consumption in half by switching to an ecobee smart thermostat.
I tuned up the fireplace fans and replaced the gaskets, much better now.
I added a 8” inline fan to the HVAC to circulate the air across the 3 floors this past summer - this allowed a modest AC to cool the whole house. ( harmonized a 4-5C temp difference)
Hobby mining has been great for passive heat ( 3 nanos and a gpu rig) on the lower level.
The Avalon Q is maintaining 24C in the 3900 sqft house for the last 48hrs on eco. Granted it’s a mild 12-15 C outside today.
I’ll add a 20A circuit and use some 3d printed shrouds to pipe the heat into the HVAC with the 8” fan boosting it.
Wow surprising - my impression is that the power cost is high in EU. The heat offset is the key to profitability with home mining.
Once you’ve replace the heat you needed the profitability is more difficult to achieve.
If you need the heat, easy win.
Do the math, I guess. Hard to beat a paid for machine.
I think it’s a good move, esp if you need the heat.
This product is built well, it’s very quiet and it’s putting out serious heat.
I would like to see a bitcoin furnace from Canaan. 🤔
This is the best heater miner I’ve seen so far.
Exactly people will be spending on heating anyway with inneficient space heaters and spend to heat without earning bitcoin
Thanks for the info! We have a forced hot air system (propane) that no longer functions- I have been dreaming about hooking up some miners to use the old ductwork but don’t quite have the expertise to put all the pieces together.
Does the forced air part still work?
The miner will go between this 8” fan and the ductwork I’ve installed.
Filter -> Fan -> shroud -> Miner -> shroud -> Duct ~> HVAC.
Yup. This supliments it.
Nice! Really makes a lot of sense when you have an electric furnace.
There once was a time when I heated my 1400sqft home with 3 antminer s5 in the winter with no need to use the furnace (nat gas)… they were a little loud and it was hot in the summertime lol…
Free heat & cheap Satoshis. 🤪🔥
Yeah exactly! The blower still works and ductwork is all functional. Just doesn’t put out heat anymore. So seems like it would be relatively trivial to install some miners to take advantage of the existing infrastructure, would just need some electricity upgrades.
Awesome! 🙌
That’s some serious hash, I thought it’d be something like 10-15 th/s
Yes!
Yes and competitively efficient on standard and eco. It needs a 20A circuit to get into the highest power mode. It can be 110v - 240v
Yep. Totally get it. I’m working on transitioning my house from oil heat. I want to go the btc miner route for heat. Just looking at costs and options. I know it won’t be cheap to get started. But I might as well get bitcoin if I’m going to heat the place anyway.
I got some experience hobby mining and learning along the way.
The big (mostly mental) hurdle was the upfront costs. I did a lot of research.
There are great examples like 256heat.com and reviewers like Red Panda Mining who do a good job of measuring and testing.
I used grok a lot to compare and calculate ROI.
The cost of this miner is not cheap - about equal to used miners tuned and modded for home use.
It comes ready to go.
I found some 3D shrouds I like for it to tie directly into the HVAC.
I’ll automate it with Home Assistant along with the fan - and it’ll be controlled by the thermostat.
🙏🫂
got one in my office every morning i come in the room is up around 40C / 104F
I’m thinking a bitcoin sauna might be a fun idea. 🤔
This is great Mark. I think you may have just convinced me to get one running for this up coming winter as well. Our house is not ideal - propane heated hot water radiators and a wood burning stove. Couple that with a poorly insulated house built in 1925 with single pane windows! Its not our forever home so renovating is not our financial best interest
Still on eco 24hrs later - still 24C in the whole house.
I think as long as you’re comfortable covering the $2.50 - $5/ day cost of running it it’s great.
If cashflow is a struggle you’ll need to sell some bitcoin along the way.
Grok tells me the ROI is about 1.5 yrs depending on use case / power cost.
My wife LOVES the warm house.
We spend over 3000 a year in propane. It pains me to admit it. This seems like a no brainer
https://pool.kryptex.com/device/asic/canaan/q-home-90th
This'll give you an idea of the potential earnings based on your power cost.
Whattomine calc shows similar using my current data
