If most of that ends up as heat in his apartment, that could reduce his need for other heating which could offset some of the electricity cost, especially if that other heating is electric heating.

"On November 30, 2017, in response to the complaint agents from the Enforcement Bureau’s New York Office confirmed by direction finding techniques that radio emissions in the 700 MHz band were emanating from your residence in Brooklyn, New York. When the interfering device was turned off the interference ceased. You identified the device as an Antminer s5 Bitcoin Miner. The device was generating spurious emissions on frequencies assigned to T-Mobile’s broadband network and causing harmful interference."

But no. The noise is omnipresent, and there's no way to escape it. https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-16-676A1_Rc...

Surrounding the device with metal containing 2.1cm (0.85in) holes would probably work and only require minor modifications to support heat dissipation.

Side note, now everyone knows Victor Rosario in Brooklyn probably has a bunch of cryptocurrency...

[1] https://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/201...

You dissipate the heat into the faraday cage. There's been a patent for this: https://patents.google.com/patent/US5901040

However, I think the fact that the Faraday cage is not symmetric when it comes to static electric fields is very interesting. Ask yourself this: how does the cage know what "inside" versus "outside" means? You know the old joke where a mathematician has to enclose the greatest area with a given fence and so she takes the fence and wraps it around herself and declares "I am outside the fence." Well, why can't I declare myself to be inside the Faraday cage and suddenly get the benefits of its shielding?

You might say that the difference is that the outside has the "boundary" of the universe and that makes it distinct from the inside. [1] But we don't yet know that the universe isn't finite and wrapped up on itself spatially, so if that were the difference, then isn't a Faraday cage experimental evidence in favor of the universe not being finite? I think therein lies the answer: if we wanted to actually use this as an experiment, we would have to place a charge outside of the Faraday cage and wait for sufficiently long time that the electric field is effectively static. However, for our experiment to work, we would have to wait so long that the electric field becomes static on the scale of the entire universe. And so no, the Faraday cage is not an experiment we can practically perform to measure the shape of the universe and the difference is the obvious one: the exterior is the larger one and is simply just "big enough" that we can't ever wait for the EM fields to settle down in the exterior like we can on the interior.

[1] Mathematically, this come in as the fact that the Poincare lemma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_and_exact_differential_... requires a "contractible" domain. The exterior of the cage is not contractible, so we are not guaranteed to be able to use the integral forms of Maxwell's equations over the exterior of the cage. However, the interior is contractible.

“Faraday cages are also used to enclose devices that produce RFI, such as radio transmitters, to prevent their radio waves from interfering with other nearby equipment.”