A Bitcoiner has made another mining innovation. The “waste” heat generated from mining Bitcoin (BTC) is used to heat your pool.
Bitcoin enthusiast Jonathan Yuan had children who “loved swimming, but the year before [a que empezara a utilizar el calor residual] they hardly did because it was always too cold for them”. Fortunately, he became interested in Bitcoin mining and understood that it emits a lot of heat.
Yuan told Cointelegraph that bought a “heat exchanger and set up some ASICs”, (application specific integrated circuits), and subsequently managed to keep “the pool above 90F all summer”.
The process works by immersion, which simultaneously cools the ASICs while “recovering that waste heat and putting it toward practical applications.”such as heating living/working spaces, swimming pools, or anything that can benefit from up to 60C/140F of heat.”
However, “when the China ban happened” and the difficulty setting dropped, Yuan made a difficult decision.. Would you mine less Bitcoin or turn the pool into a bathtub?
“When [la] Difficulty dropped like a rock, I really pushed all the ASICs to the limit, causing the pool temperature to exceed 110F so the kids couldn’t swim for a month or two. LOL. Yes, I had to say “sorry kids, the pool is too hot, you can’t swim today””
Since then, the difficulty setting has gone up to new levels, and your children can swim again. In addition, Yuan has “earned money” through mining and, interestingly, “the best thing is that the pool has acted as a perfect buffer from the heat.”
In fact, using Bitcoin mining equipment to heat your pool is more effective than traditional methods.– Keeps “temperature swings over a 24-hour period to only 1F to 2F despite ambient temperatures swinging over 40F on some days.”
Based in Minnesota, in the upper Midwest of the United States, Yuan has kept the pool “warm” even in cold temperatures:
-21F this morning here in Minnesota. The pool (blue line) is nice and toasty warm at 92F. pic.twitter.com/eq5b3OLFjV
— Coin Heated (@CoinHeated) January 7, 2022
-21F this morning here in Minnesota. The pool (blue line) is nice and warm at 92F. pic.twitter.com/eq5b3OLFjV
Yuan recommends anyone with a pool do the same, as it’s the “perfect use case” for waste heat. Now that his home mining setup has gone from strength to strength, Yuan is building a pool-specific tank that will be able to run pool water through the heat exchanger directly..
The ASIC now warms the house of Yuan, who has turned a passion project into a profession. His Bitcoin mining company, CoinHeated, “is dedicated to converting the waste heat of Bitcoin miners into productive heat.”
The plan now is to bring pool heating projects to other homesand is in talks with “heat exchanger manufacturers who will be able to make something that won’t corrode with chemically treated pool water.”
In the meantime, kids can enjoy their home pool, heated courtesy of Proof of Work.
Here’s some kiddo’s enjoying the nice, warm pool. I don’t swim in it myself though. Not really a fan of swimming. pic.twitter.com/MHRW86D6Me
— Coin Heated (@CoinHeated) January 28, 2022
Here are the children enjoying the nice and warm pool. Although I don’t swim in it. I don’t really like swimming.
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