Heatbit Says Your Water Heater Should Be Mining Bitcoin, and Now It Can
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Embedding Bitcoin mining into household heat loads is a bet that waste heat plus decentralization can offset hardware and power costs. If you run energy, HVAC, or home devices, this is an early signal that compute is being treated as a byproduct of thermal systems, not the other way around.
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