Americans are heating their homes with Bitcoin this winter

Americans are heating their homes with Bitcoin this winter(cnbc.com)

3 points by quadtree 230 days ago | 3 comments

no they aren’t. a few cherry picked examples are. this is hyperreality. ask yourself what they are trying to manufacture consent for, and why

pestatije 230 days ago |

if you move a bit and it consumes 1W, do you get the same heat as if you put 1W directly to the heater?

uxp100 230 days ago | |

Not exactly the same. Very nearly the same. I’m not real familiar with the physics of computation but look into theoretical minimum power consumption. Something like 99.999% the same heat output IIUC.