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I thought I'd share this with you guys.

I stumbled upon a video on TikTok(link below) talking about a bathhouse business in New York using the heat from the Bitcoin mining rigs that they own to heat the water that they use for their pools. for anyone curious about the process of how they heat the water they use for their pools, they made a FAQ on their website about it, I'll share the link below.

obviously, there are people who don't like what they are doing because of the carbon emission produced by the Bitcoin mining rigs. but personally, I think this idea is genius, they are saving money for their business by using the heat from the mining rigs and they are earning money from mining Bitcoin, it's a win-win.

also, judging from their FAQ, it looks like they also accept Bitcoin as a payment method(surprising).

TikTok video
https://www.tiktok.com/@thechainsawdotcom/video/7249624706419117313

FAQ
https://help.abathhouse.com/hc/en-us/articles/16748674443924-Do-you-mine-Bitcoin-How-does-it-work-

That news are days ago Bitcoin mining heats water in Brooklyn Bathhouse, users flip out (https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-mining-heats-water-in-brooklyn-bathhouse-users-flip-out)

This idea is not new in 3Rs principle and in Bitcoin mining, it is not new too. In 2018 we had that one This Guy Heated Bath Water With Bitcoin Mining and It Worked Too Well (https://www.vice.com/en/article/9k8ykp/heating-water-with-bitcoin-mining-asic-reddit).

The popularity of this practice is increasing and the level of application potentially can become bigger and it is part of Bitcoin adoption. Bitcoin mining is green enough and with such energy reuse, it becomes greener.

Interesting, now can anyone clarify if this is safe to use on the human body? Is this healthy? Also do you think it makes sense to decide to use your Asic miner to heat up your bathing water when you can follow the normal everyday routine?

Does this makes sense for human use or this person is just telling us that it's possible? Even if it's possible I don't want to use it, because there is really no reason to....

Am I lacking some understanding? Fill me up with what I am missing, but no I don't see why this is necessary.

I think the idea of using ASIC miner for the heater is not new I found a similar post in the Bitcoin Mining Section and I also found on the internet like this image shown below.

https://pictshare.net/gfuy33.jpg

and its pretty much a good idea though because heat from the miner is a waste of energy and if we can use it properly it benefits us



But I am also curious about this one since the heat maybe contain some radiation

yeah, I've heard about using Bitcoin mining rigs as a way to heat areas, water or something before but seeing a business doing it is quite fun.

yeah, the water heated by the mining rigs it is safe to use on the human body, from what I have read on their FAQ, the Bitcoin mining rigs basically just acts as a heater, but in order to heat the water, they have a safe process of doing it. I suggest you read their FAQ, it is just a quick read. also, just a clarification, the bathhouse that I am talking about is a business and not an individual. perhaps I should have clarified that in my original post.

Obviously, it is foolish not to use energy in the form of heat released from rigs when bitcoin mining. Instead of simply releasing it into the atmosphere, it is more rational to use it for various household purposes. This allows you to save on utilities and at the same time, get the desired result, such as heating water in the bath and pool that you are talking about. Bitcoin mining is the main goal, but this by-product of heat can also be very useful.

Perhaps in the future, almost all devices that generate heat will be replaced by bitcoin mining rigs (or alts). Why waste electricity just to generate heat when you can mine btc in parallel? The answer seems to be obvious and will become more relevant with each new increase in the price of bitcoin.

Scientists says a human can not use 100% of their minds but these are not humans these are legends. who had used their mind and made a use case just out of the mining of BTC. I am not referring to the use cases of BTC but only of the mining of BTC. Which i think i have not seen any.

Because all i have seen is Supporters of the green world had always found a way to demotivate the mining of BTC. And they are correct too I am not saying they are doing a bad thing. But, they should also praise this good feature as well, who knows, a few days after another legend comes up with another idea to totally eliminate the carbon emission from mining rigs

Or they might come up with ideas to use that carbon being emitted from the rigs completely. This proved that world and the people inside it are revolutionizing.

So looking at it, people are scrutinizing the business for using the heat that they're getting from the rigs.

Well, I'd say that's a better use rather than it will just be adding to the heat pollution of the world. These comments about carbon emission from bitcoin mining are all bias.

They're only pointing out on it but they also know that there are factories that are doing more than it.

It's a great idea, but as others have said it's not new. A long time ago, probably in 2018 or something, there was an article about a guy who used his miners to heat a greenhouse, which allowed him to grow fruit all year round. He also could direct that heat into his driveway to melt snow. I know a guy who bought ASIC miners just for the winter season because it allowed him to save up on heating. He bought everything in Autumn, kept heating the house until late Spring and sold everything with nice profit.

I am in favor of preserving the environment, if we destroy the world we live in we would be destroying ourselves. That is why I understand in a certain way the controversies about bitcoin mining and the people who consider that nature is damaged; but as everyone should do, I investigate and try to find out if everything they argue is true. And yes, it causes damage, but compared to other industries, if we could classify mining that way, they are doing something about it, there are oil companies that have been causing excessive pollution for years and I don't see that they want to look for an alternative to avoid polluting, it was until bitcoin mining appeared recently that alternatives were being created to reduce this spread.

 And what's more……..seeing news like this, the interest in finding optimal solutions to continue with this type of work is demonstrated, the ingenuity of this person to use something that can generate a large amount of money, to create another business using the same raw material and at the same time making a positive impact in reducing energy use is a good thing. Always open manufactures that cause some kind of damaging factor, for me the important thing is to see what actions they take to reduce the impact.

This is not surprising, it is an obvious fact that mining rigs produce tremendous heat which can be manipulated to use as a heater.  It has been used as a heater during winter so it is not a surprise if they use it to heat baths.  With human mind being creative, I believe this is not the only useful thing miner can take advantage of the heat produced by the mining rig especially a  mining farm.

radiation??? (facepalm)
asics do not produce radiation. its jsut the amount of electric flowing through metal circuits so fast it heats the metal.. the same as a coffee kettle or any electric heater operates..

its not radiation to worry about its if you heat water too much it boils and the heat can burn your skin. thats where you would need to have some thermometers and a flush system to pump in cold water into the bath to moderate the heat from the asic heating systems hot water.. much like most baths using a hot and cold tap

anyone using or owning a heated swimming pool knows this. if you feel the inlet pumps for the pool some are warm water some are cold water and they open and close(push more or less water in) based on what the majority temperature of the pool is to keep it to a certain level

I checked the internet and I saw many people that are maximizing the heat from ASIC miners. I think this is creative thinking and it is also good for our environment. If miners can be able to divert the heat to other useful areas the attack that bitcoin mining consumes more electricity will reduce to some extent. I saw an article where mining heat was used to dry wood in Norway and it was also used to heat a greenhouse that produces flowers Netherlands.  Recycling of energy will help miners to the save cost of electricity. We will keep on seeing more innovation until the majority of miners will embrace the recycling of the heat that mining machines produce.

This is awesome, just wondering why people are innovative nowadays to think of such innovation but one just needs to be cautious and find out if there is any side effect on the individual internal and external body upon use.

It has been changing to be bigger application. From individual to business levels, it is a very good upgrade of reusing heats from Bitcoin ASIC mining rigs. From small business, we will see bigger business companies apply this. 3Rs are already a big trend in the world and it helps to reduce carbon emission.

If you already have a good heat source, why don't use it for other things, to save the environment and to save cost from electricity, fuel. Like from modern inccinerator facilities, they reuse heat from burning waste.

It can be unsafe to have an ASIC running at your home 24/7, because some component might overheat, short-circuit and start a fire while you are sleeping or away from home.


The problem with this setup is that a miner constantly produces heat whether you need it or not, and it's hard to balance it, because heat consumption is not continuous and not well-predictable.

Yeah  ;D ;D I just thought it will be harm to our body like I heard on the internet that home microwave is actually emit radiation to cook our food but after I quick search "Microwaves are non-ionizing radiation, so they do not have the same risks as x-rays or other types of ionizing radiation." - https://www.fda.gov/radiation-emitting-products/resources-you-radiation-emitting-products/microwave-ovens

So probably it will be going safe to use but will take a long time to heat the cold water  ;D

Are you for real? I'm asking because this reads like a joke. Your TV, fridge, AC unit, computer can also overheat and short. What about wood or gas furnaces that most of us have? What about solar panels?
That's why you follow safety rules. For instance, you can put miners in a dedicated room, where there's no furniture around them and nothing to catch fire. You also makes sure there's a smoke detector in that room and that you have a fire extinguisher in the house.

The miners mentioned by OP are submerged, so there's low risk of fire, unless you somehow reach the temperatures where mineral oil or whatever fluid they have in there ignites, but that's well above boiling temperature so a mining unit would need to keep heating up the coolant in the tank until the whole thing starts boiling and then beyond that, to the level of ignition, so something above 150C. They'd get alarms all over the place well before that.

Bitcoin miners draw a lot more power than typical home appliances. And they do it 24/7. And the generate a lot of heat. These factors combined create a lot more fire hazards.


Of course taking precautions will reduce the risks, but in real world not all people think ahead. If everyone was doing it, there would be no house fires.

And about house fires, they tend to increase in winter when people start using electric heaters. Mass use of ASICS as electric heaters could have the same effect.

This sounds like a great idea, actually. This means they use less energy than they normally would, and energy efficiency is a step toward a more eco-friendly future. Now, the carbon emmissions don't come from Bitcoin mining but just from using the electricity, if its source is bad for the environment. Companies often don't have a choice about their energy source because it's just something that depends on a country, city, and district. They should not be blamed for that, and, in any case, they are trying to make up for mining by using the residual heat for a good practical purpose. I don't know if it's safe for humans, but I don't see why not (unless we're talking about a fire hazard).

We're talking about miners generating enough to heat your home, or your water, right?
A typical bathroom water heater uses 2kW. A Bitmain S19 uses 3kW, that's more or less the average AC unit. Nothing your house can't handle, especially if you used electric heaters in the past.
I don't think that there's a significantly bigger fire hazard if you replace your 10kW electric furnace with 3 S19s. You'll get similar heat from them and generated bitcoin should allow the miners to pay for themselves.  


The same effect? And that's bad? Would you like people to have free heat from miners and also reduce the risk of fires?
If someone was able to burn his house with a water kettle, he's not going to become more careful with his miners. Some people are just like that and they'll blow the house up with a gas grill and electrocute themselves with a hairdryer.

This is efficiency at its best. It would have clearly cost more, to keep the pool warm and keep the mining machines cool to avoid overheating or any hazards that might likely occur.
While this effectively works for 24hrs non stop in a cycle,  the mechanics of its working, is not too different from how power generation plants recycle water from dams or rivers to produce electricity.

The harm I see here is if persons lived within the building where this mining rig operates. Otherwise, if persons just come and go, there's really no harm.
Innovation is not restricted to only the computer and technology we use. it is how we get to apply the knowledge of these computers and technology to our lives.

Maybe 4 months ago I saw this video on Linus Tech Tips youtube channel in which he attempts to heat his workspace with mining rigs.
Here's the link if you want to check it out. Ask me why I'm Mining in 2023... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr4kmlTr9xw)
Though the results were not magnificent, the rig did increase the heat by 1 degree. So it was only one rig that managed to do that. And I am sure if we use a good number of them, we can surely do it. It is a very efficient way to use wasted energy to do something productive with it. This is a great way to not waste energy. I have seen some bathrooms in Japan, in a video, where they installed a sink above the water tank for the flush. So when you wash your hand, the water then gets put into the tank which gets used later on to flush it. Same energy, different things. It's amazing to see how people are getting smarter in terms of reusing waste to produce something.

I don't get how people could be negative and judge this, probably if you are mining Bitcoin nothing smart you do is credited. I mean, I couldn't ever think of this if I had miners, this is a genius idea - you're earning cash and not wasting any energy, that's what you call maximum utilization.

As for fire hazards, I would like you to see which kind of old, rubbish electrical appliances (that draw more electricity than a miner) are being used in poor countries non-stop and rarely anything happens. I doubt miners would have any risk of a fire hazard and if was my home or business at question, I would definitely install some safety measures so even if a fire or anything similar happens, it would be easily possible to fix the situation immediately.

Either way, a smart idea at work and I think this could be applied to many other stuff if thought out well.

this is a great idea and from some of the articles I've read, actually carbon isn't too dangerous for the human body but to use hot water that comes from bitcoin mining, I think it still needs further research so it's safe for humans who bathe it.

I have also seen on TikTok, where a bitcoin miner in the Netherlands uses waste water from bitcoin mining to irrigate agriculture, I really like the many bitcoin miners who continue to experiment to take advantage of bitcoin mining. bitcoin mining never broke the earth.

I think this ought to be the starting point. We will start hearing about other beneficial ways that miners have used the heat from their mining rigs to develop ideas that will benefit humanity, as the miners advance with their bitcoin rigs (many people getting involved in bitcoin rigs).

In the future, I'd love to see and hear more. As other ideas will emerge from the heat generated by bitcoin mining as time goes on with the miners.

This is interesting, converting one form of energy to other and then using that energy which was considered waste by many to a business.
Let's see how this goes as it sounds good on paper but it takes efforts to make it working in an actual business environment.

By doing this, they also bring down their electricity cost as it's making them money to pay for electricity :D

Honestly, the idea is very good since you're saving money, it was like "2 birds in one stone", but if your health is at risk I think it's no good to be called as genius. I agree in the saying that health is wealth, because even if you have a lot of money but if you die because of sickness, your money will be useless. So I think if they care for their customers should find ways how to eradicate or lessen the the carbon emissions produced by the Bitcoin mining rig so that somehow it minimizes the risk to customers to get sick.

I've check the content in tiktok and gets explained with the narrator actually the people behind on it was a genius, they manage to use the energy came from those rigs instead of using the fan only to make it cool they use the rigs and another thing is they earning crypto while having a business.
Just my concern to make the rig properly work still need to have a good temps then mining rigs must need to have cool in take my curious about it is how they transfer the heat to the bath and still make cool those rigs to mine continuously

Bitcoin miners or any crypto miners for that matter should always study on how they can utilize all the things at their disposal. Rather than allow the heat to escape into the outside environment, using it for commercial purposes is always a good idea - good for business, as always. This is one way, the industry can deflect the "blame" that many environmentalists or the green movement heaped on Bitcoin mining. And it makes a good story that can always inspire all crypto enthusiasts like you and me.

anything that produces heat also produces radiation. just because you can't see it doesn't mean it is not there. any heat source produces infrared radiation.

In my opinion it is not safe for human health, the amount of carbon released when mining bitcoin is too large. No one wants their health to be in danger when using bad energy

Bitcoin mining equipments become more efficient and profitable when they are used to solve multiple problems at once. That's what miners, especially the small and medium scale ones, who wish to be consistently profitable should be encouraged to do. The more problems the mining equipments solve the better.
Instead of buying none mining equipments and paying for electricity/fuel to heat the pool, you could just get yourself Bitcoin mining equipments to do that for you while earning bitcoins at thesame time. This method would be more beneficial to people living in colder regions of the world.

In confirmation of your words, I remember that in one of the discussions someone was discussing the idea of benefiting from the thermal energy generated by mining machines to operate other machines. Other people were discussing the possibility of extracting electric energy from stationary sports bikes that are used in sports halls and using that energy to run mining machines.
During my little experience with the mining field, there are many ideas and innovations that can be applied and that are able to facilitate the process. The problem always remains the same as all those creative ideas are processed by solo miners and not big farms.

This is the dumbest thing I have read today, hands down maybe the week. Infrared radiation? Do you you even know what that is Einstein?

While I understand the worries and concerns of people in the environmental sector, what they fail to realize is that bitcoin mining's not even that detrimental to the environment anymore, since a lot of the newer models have become efficient in what they do and while they still require copious amounts of energy, I'm pretty sure a lot of movements within this industry already did their part to lessen the effects of bitcoin in the environment.

While this news is not "new" anymore cause I also saw this guy on TikTok who tries out side-hustles he sees on the internet and had once tried to use a bitcoin miner in his house as some form of space heater, the fact that there are more people who's jumping in on this trend is interesting.

There're plenty of ways to get past these environmental concerns by switching to green energy. Bitcoin's impact on the environment is the least of our issues when it comes to discussing what is more detrimental to it. As we've seen from this company, even heat, which is wasted energy, can be taken advantage of for heating purposes. Generally, there are ways to decrease mining's carbon footprint but it's yet to be applied. Miners generate a ton of heat which we haven't fully grasped that can be used in a variety of ways. Not long ago, I had also seen heaters that were mining Bitcoin simultaneously, but the whole ordeal wasn't too effective or efficient, but miners with a few modifications could possibly even heat whole rooms.

It was amazing one to see this video,because it had two purposes.Because they earn huge from it,at first they earn from the bitcoin mining.The bitcoin mining was rare one for now,the bitcoin they earn from the mining will have huge value in long run.They just need to hold in the cold storage.Secondly they also earning from the bathhouse business,which double their income.Really the big appreciated one and bitcoin miners can use this technique to earn huge in long run.