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Any other cool funky ways to use it? I'm sure we have a clever community here which will know some funky ways to use them .

Doorstop
Paperweight
Target practice...

door stop


/end thread

Too late.

blame it on my doorstop.... fcking too big

This is very funny - however the real use is: Space heater.  I can't wait for winter to come.  I'll be plenty warm this year.

Cointerra?

no... "the big box of fans "

If you normally have electric heating in your home, you might as well use Bitcoin miners instead. All power used by these things ends up as heat, so in that sense they're just as efficient as a regular heater that uses the same amount of power. Except you also get Bitcoins.

Thanks for answering seriously. Seems we don't have much of a mature community after all.

I can attest to that.  My family went out of town last winter. I put the thermostat at 55F, put two miners in my room and shut the door, I was in a sauna in an hour, making btc and ltc.

Heater for you home.

In the case of the asicminer tube - chick magnet!  :D

Space heater that is dangerous to cats and children.  You can use them as clothes dryers too if you aim the exhaust at your clothes on a clothesline.

Other then using it as a heater, it is better off selling it..

I've seen some people make keychains from USB block erupters, those are kind of neat.

I use my obsolete miners as dust collectors. I live in the desert so they'll soon be virtually invisible. Maybe thousands of years from now some archaeologist will uncover them and wonder what the hell they were for.

Best laugh I've had today  ;D ;D ;D

I have though of using it to crack password, is it possible?

No.

How about using the exhaust for drying wood or perhaps to dehydrate food (make your own beef jerky)?

Our answers were a flippant way of seriously answering your question. They mine Bitcoin. They put out heat. They are useless otherwise.

heating room is the best bet, and you still mine something

It's too bad that the FPGA miner era went by so fast. You could reprogram the FPGA devices to do something else. ASICs have one job, and that's all they can do.

If you waited like 60 years you could probably take your asicminer tube onto the antiques roadshow.   They'll tell you how much bitcoin it'll fetch at auction.

Food defroster

De-humidifier (although YOU DONT want them to do this)

noise machine (sounds like a server room drowns out silence)

There's a guy who has to dry wood from his kiln in the US, and he uses bitcoin miners in another room with the hot air vented in. Pretty cool, if you ask me.

Even this was not really true of FPGAs. Most people here had basically no use for their FPGAs when they stopped mining with them. Yes they can be reprogrammed to do other things, but no miner here ever really came up with a good use for them and the main reason was they kept thinking there would be another use for them that would earn them money.

My ASIC manufacturer claims they have military encryption applications for their chips. Thieving bastards also claimed they would ship me a miner 6 months ago. They're definitely crooks and liars but it possible there's some truth to this.

rly? Military Encryption applications, you bought that??  That's more embarrassing than pre-ordering a monarch.

It truly is quite sad that there can be no other function used for these devices.   Just imagine all the crap that will be in the garbage.  Wonder how much copper/etc are in these for recycling?  Maybe open up a bitcoin ASIC recycling company? LULz.

Kind of happens when you're dealing with Application Specific Integrated Circuit... they're sort of purpose built for execution of exactly one thing.

That's probably why you're getting a bunch of comical answers on what to do with them other than mine SHA-256 coins.

Look at it as an appliance. A toaster toasts and a bitcoin miner mines.

You can warm the room in the winter  ;D

LOL you're very close..... the only company made such claim is infact BFL.

I ordered from Black Arrow, what a bunch of crooks they're worse than BFL.

Heat the room and dry the cloths

Air Circulation

Collect 100 BFL 40-50-60 GH/s miners (I think they are all same size.)

Take the ASIC boards out to lighten the box weight down and make the fans work alone without the ASIC boards.

Assamble the boxes to each other to make a board all boxes blowing down...

Put a electric generator on top and a chair.

Making a hoowercraft.

 :P

Most probably it's not going to work. Box is still heavy without the ASIC boards.

should i solo mine some heat

show off to chichs with your miners, they will get horny.

You should keep them for your grandchildren's children those miners will be real collectable pieces whether bitcoin will be still alive or not.

That won't work for me. I refuse to procreate.   ;D

To simulate sound of vacuum cleaner of 60s 70s.

Best thing I can think of would be to use them to heat my greenhouse.  Pineapples/peaches etc. don't care about being deafened. ;D

To dry your hair, the pets and the cloth!
 ::)

Super cool!

heaters.  find old ladies or other thermically-challenged folk and give them a foot heater

i seriously currently have 2 antminer S1's setup for 2 coworkers for this specific reason

Hi Everyone -

I was perusing Coindesk and found an article that linked to this thread.

I have a client who has built exactly what you are talking about (re: Rig for Home Heating). We call the concept Combined Heating and Computation. It's in prototype form and as of late, we've been trying to build some buzz around it in larger energy efficiency communities, but it could apply to Bitcoin mining as well (among a host of other things).

We are currently in the R&D stage gathering partners for pilot demos and investment. We will be starting a KS campaign in the fall so stay tuned. I'd obviously love to hear any feedback or answer any question you might have.

www.3xergy.com

Nice site!! Could you pls tell us more info for this?

We are based in the US and while there are definitely mining applications, the idea is that the computational load across a larger distributed network essentially becomes the "fuel" to keep the components hot and transferring heat. There's also local computational demand, so theoretically, the device could control anything in your house with a CPU or GPU. Globally, the collective computational power could be tapped by you, or third parties for whatever it's needed for - advanced math, research, whatever. It's not an uncommon model actually. SETI uses a similar platform where they will use a portion of your home computer's power to run calcs - but it's extremely limiting. This prototype is VERY powerful computationally speaking. Essentially, when you plug it into a network of other "like minded" devices, you've got access to a super computer that just so happens to heat / coool your home, give you got water, and act as a smart meter for all of your other digital devices.

That's the idea anyway!

I suggest you use them as a heater as winter is approaching nearer.Believe me you are gonna save some nice $$  ::)

Ahh, heater? I guess.

My GPU's functioned as a great heater in the winter. It worked great...

You can use them as stoves and cook on them simple thing like omelet and tea and maybe coffee :)

also let me know if it worked ... also some photos will be nice :)

Decentralized hardware? Like a global mainframe of computing HVAC systems, stoves, kettles, irons, space heaters, etc.

Sorry guys but... ROFL

I thought about that a few weeks ago, I only thought about a house heater application. Because of this the device would only be usefull during winter (or in Alaska  :D ) so my solution was to ship it to different areas depending on the weather... But it isn't efficient at all. A water warming solution would be much more efficient, the only problem I see is that these miners use the same amount of power all the time, the warm water is needed in precise moments. So in order to do it one would need to 1) use a little warm water (no bath only shower for instance) 2) have a huge water heater tank.

Both of these solutions are not optimum because 1) a person has not as much comfort and would have to do sacrifices  and 2) a huge water tank would have to be installed (maybe 500 liters) => it's expensive, takes place and energy loses are higher. (but at least this energy would be use efficiently)


What would your solution be ?

you can use as doorstops or weld together into a modern art installation

once they are uneconomic of course   ;D

Anybody try using it to heat your water heater?

Lol how would you do that?  have it exhaust out on the water tank?

Something like a watercooling system

I think that would be a challenge as you need to put cooling heatsinks/tubing on the asic chips -> water heater.

Most of the miners out there are based on Linux, whether raspberry PI, BeagleBone or other form(s) of controllers.
Some of these are fast, decent performing boards, while others (Raspberry PI as an example) are pretty slow overall.

You could in theory disconnect the hashing boards inside the units and turn them into web-servers, cloud servers, storage servers,
mysql servers etc.    I have already done this with broken cointerra boxes I have by extracting the Beaglebone boards and installing different
linux versions on them.  They are great for small low traffic DNS servers DHCP servers and web servers for low traffic (perhaps home media center?) servers.

I even have a wordpress site running on one just for shits and giggles.

So what you are doing there is using the controller... fair enough... but those asics are still rendered useless.. right?

If they are sitting around as dust collectors, would you consider 'donating' them to a renewable energy based mining system? I put my initial 1st round of BTC profits into a 1.5kW solar array, based in central Victoria - Australia. I now use the array to churn the blockchain with old gear...

Heat a tropical fishtank by installing water cooling blocks on the ASIC and use the fish tank as the reservoir.

That would be really risky unless you install another temperature controller so the fish tank don't get too hot..

Just submerge them in mineral oil, pump and heat exchanger to the water heater and you are done.  Not only are you done but you've extended the payback of your miner because now it heats your water (which you are paying for anyway)  and mines coin.

That is a good idea, but it sounds really difficult and would cost a lot for renovation..

I think as long as the bath is set up in a modular way (components can be dropped in and out in the same slot spaces ((standardization! aw yissss!)) when upgrades are needed), we could get it done.

www.3xergy.com -------> for review!

This dance happens countless times a day….and that’s still only running 10% of brain capacity. What if you could take that remaining 90% and send it out over a Grid for someone else to use?

--> yeah , thats esoteric BS. Better keep away from that to prevent bad experience and loss of time.

I used it as a heater last winter. ;) ;) and felt good

ASIC release metal smell which is bad for health..

As someone said before, you just have to open your windows once in a while.

You can use your miner to warm your room  ;D . I think is a best solution for the winter.

Like... drop the whole miner in mineral oil?  LOL WHAT?   Or set a cooling system to use mineral oil within the tubes to the chips and out?

Room Heater? If u live in cold country ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OpjknGXZAE

I'm going to open a chain of laundromats

The key is you can charge less for drying the clothes, and only need the tumblers for the dryers, so can save money, and upkeep and maintenance on the dryers will be minimal.

Also, the water line for the hot water heater, will be fed through the "heat" chamber with the exhausted air from the miners, heating the copper tubing water pipe up probably 20 degrees, saving more money!!!
 

It's science.

That looks like a GPU setup.

It is, but the video is 2 years ago so he is making a lot of money..

It is but the hardware is irrelevant the point is immersion cooling is not LOL WHAT...  If you can stick a couple of GPUs in it you can jam a couple of PCBs with SHA256 ASICs on them in it.

Mineral oil is just one option.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pNSUKp8ov4
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=255613.0

My ASIC manufacturer has been using its obsolete miners as incendiary bombs and mailing them to its customers.

"there was a loud bang sound, and then i could see one of the X3's was on fire"

you can always recycle it for parts, gold and other metals from them

This thread has got me considering the purchase of a HEPA filter to stick on my Antminer. Inner city air is filthy and making it a dual purpose air filter/BTC miner might help prolong the life of both it's and my circuitry!

you can use their fan for something else, for cpu maybe? for other altcoin rig?, but the first alternative would be heating

That’s a very funny and cool question i think you can use it for different wait stopping methods or you can also use it for decoration or i would say the most funny thing will be that you can use it for making children scared as well.Isn’t it funny mate.

Point them at http://burstmultipool.com/ and then earn BURST coin at the rate of  BTC.00116000/100GH/day SHA

You can use a small/mid size miner like say an Antminer S1 or S3 as a space heater in the winter time for you bed room.

That way you can earn some coin while heating those cold winter nights while you sleep.

I live in a cooler below grade house and I use mine to heat my cold office.

Correct me if I am wrong, anyone, but I believe you could use them for brute-force password cracking.

Since SHA256 is an encryption standard used in cryptography far more outside of Bitcoin, you could (presumably) use the hardware to brute-force and crack encrypted data/passwords that use this encryption standard.

Yes you're wrong.

You can only crack password with GPU.... but you can use it to heat your swimming poool..

 The amount of gold on them is worthless .

Maybe reconfig them to mine altcoins

Selling them on E-Bay. A good strategy is to get them while they are cutting edge and selling them when the price is still high on The Bay.

A lot of things need heating, like heating your food, heating your fish tank..

Maybe this has already been mentioned, but you could create an SHA-256 AltCoin and then mine it. :) Just hang on to the coin, or use it to buy products so that the currency gains value. Discourage pump and dump somehow. (Obtaining currency and selling it quickly for another currency, which lowers the value because of the low demand volume on the buy side and the high demand volume on the sell thus devaluing the currency.)

Good luck with your miner! Perhaps if you're good with blockchain programming you could create a block chain based email service so we could have anonymous email again, only this time simply with a proxy server and blockchain technology so it would work with or without Tor.

ASICMiners has some open source hardware available if you want to see the programming :)

Good luck!

I have tried using it to cook egg, but it is a mess.. Need to find a better way..

Repurposing the heat is the best bet. The far end of the miner room grows coffee and plumeria, in a very chilly mountain climate. We're trying mini bananas and Meyer lemons next, perhaps some olives.

EDIT: Some of the lower-diff SHA alts aren't a bad choice for older miners either.

Does growing drug need heat?

Care to elaborate?

I've played with password-cracking in the past and have never used anything other than a CPU, so on this basis alone your statement is incorrect.

Can you provide a technical explanation for why you arrived at this conclusion?

If the ASIC chip is designed to create hashes for the SHA-256 encryption standard, and an application uses SHA-256 encryption for passwords or arbitrary data encryption, why would it not be suitable? After all the scenario remains the same: generating hashes in an attempt to brute-force a solution.

LOL, you're questioning the BitcoinTalk moderator and lead developer of CGMiner, the most used mining software on all ASIC hardware miners?

Balls, man, you got 'em!   :D

I was unaware that there are some people we don't question 'round here. ;P

It wasn't my aim to be a dick in my questioning, rather I am sincerely curious. As a technical person myself, I need to understand why something isn't possible if someone says something it isn't. It wasn't my intent to agitate or act cocky to anyone, so my apologies if that's how it was perceived. I'm just genuinely interested to know why.

On another note I didn't realize it was him (though I still would have posed the question knowing it was :D ). So on that point: thanks for the awesome piece of software.

ASIC mining hardware only does a double sha256 hash (never used in anything except bitcoin mining) of a piece of data that is in block header form that you modify according to certain rues and only returns "yes it has this many zeroes in it". So unless the password you wish to crack is a block header and your definition of cracking it is finding out that the sha256(sha256()) hashed result of a modified string of data has 16 zeroes in it (which tells you nothing about what the original password is), then you cannot crack a password.

No, there are only 4 other valid uses for asic bitcoin mining hardware besides mining: Door stop, book end, paper weight and boat anchor. The choice depends on the weight and size of the miner.

Hahaha, wow thanks for clearing that all up for me.

Much obliged! :)

5th: Space Heater?  These things produce a ridiculous amount of heat!

You can export it as e-waste to third world countries where child labourers will hack at in order to extract some value. In doing so they will become poisoned, the water supply will become poisoned and all the babies that are born there will have deformities.

Heating, calculate your heating cost and efficiency, see if bitcoin miners are more cost friendly for you. Also you could generate some satoshi. Who knew you could make money off of heating.

There is another thing you could do. You could put in a catapult and fling it at an ASIC manufacturer. A large enough catapult and it might just reach China.

White noise machine to fall asleep..  ;D

heater ??? ??? ??? ???

Plug in a miner in a non-ventilated room and you'll easily raise the temperature by 15 degrees! 8)

ROFL   ;D ;D

I will recommend doorstop.

Shoe dryer and food defroster

This is my favorite post from the paperweight thread.

I heated up a slice of pizza on the heat sink of my old Antminer S1.

Its so unhealthy... it might be cancerous..

Pizza was wrapped inside of aluminum foil. Actually heated it quite nicely but it took a little while.  ;D

Found this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=789946.0

Thought it was pretty creative. Not sure if the air flow would be sufficient but who knows.

I use my BFL jally to keep my coffee warm.just put the cup on top
 like its a very tall coaster. shame it can't be used for World Community Grid.

As the difficulty continues to rise, Perhaps someone may find a way to use them for mining Brainwallet addresses.

The original BFL ASIC miners like the Jalapeno (7 GH/s) have an AVR microprocessor-based controller board in them.  Take off the mining ASICS, get yourself an AVR JTAG board and you can teach yourself microprocessor programming.

Maybe when the next round of Asics are being designed they might take all those now defunct asic miners into consideration and design the next asics to fit into the ones that are now defunct.

Heating your house or hacking, lol

Try cooking On them? if they get hot enough also Pizza would be great minus the 10,000 btc price... :)

I used to live in Canada at one point. Near Edmunton.

Winter there are just brutal. It would be funny to install bitcoin mining in the basement, sound proof it and boom now you got an expensive heater.

Given that all energy translated to waste heat that probably is a energy efficient way to heat the house. And hopefully the mined bitcoin pays for the equipments and more!

Use them for heating your storage shed, or pump house.   I do.

be careful about the fire, that is your house, buddy.

Mine Testnet coins with it. It is a clone of Bitcoin intended for testing only. The coins are worthless, so you can give them away. Your charitable donations will be good for your soul and the heat from the ASICs will make your home heat up.

Connect to a pool here - http://testnet.ckpool.org/

What about scrypt miners? Can it be used in future for something other except mining or heating?

If you collect enough of them, you could play Jenga.

No one should be using them now, let alone any time in the future...

Meaningful re-purposing for ASIC miners are not possible in the long run.
Temperately may use as a space heater (hazardous to health), Cloth dryers, etc along with btc mining.

What? Really? I would not recommend eating that. You could mutate or something. But it is true that you can use your old mining equipment as a heater...

You can use it for heat up the house in cold times.

Why does everyone keep saying heat when this thing will have you in a hospital by 2016... Trust me your bitcoins won't help then. I think everyone is trying to sell their miners right now honestly

I currently have 4 cube miners running in my house. As the temp is starting to drop, I am using them to heat my spare bedroom, den, and living room. I have baseboard heating and they currently are doing just as good of a job. Haven't had to turn on the baseboard heaters, and I still have the windows open a bit as the miners do a damn good job at heating the rooms.   I bought one cube back in February and I had the other 3 given to me by a buddy. That's the only reason I'm doing it.

Obviously I'm not getting much in return, but from what I can tell the miners are currently cheaper than using the heaters for electricity, so I figure what the hell.

Why would heat from a Bitcoin miner be dangerous. My undervolted S1s run at only 40C. That's less than laptops, playstations, etc. I've never heard any report that heat from computers can be dangerous.

Heat from computers or any electronic devices will not harm you.
But the chemicals released from these extremely heated electronic components are harmful inhalants.
This is a documented stuff and papers are available on the internet.
From normal electronic devices like television, refrigerators, etc they are very much negligible.

Incase of these mining hardwares, their build quality is too low due to low life expectancy.
But they are running at extreme conditions for mining so the chemicals silently released are multifold than the others.

Step one: place miner on horizontal surface
Step two: call it art
Completion.

Interesting,never really thought about the health effects. I'll have to look into this.  SO what you are saying is that anyone who has mining hardware regardless if its for mining or heat is putting their health at risk.  If the risk are serious, I guess there are going to be some very sick people in the near future.

Perhaps I'll move them out to the back shed if possible to take the edge off the cold.  Have to keep it heated slightly to keep the moisture down.  Or perhaps it's just time to let them die off before I do, LOL!

*cough*bulshit*cough*

You have to set fire to electronic components to heat them up enough to release the chemicals inside them.

I lock 4 S2 Antminer in 1 room and it became my dryer. I just hang anything i want in the room and it will be dried in few hours. In the meantime i get BTC!!

It would be interesting to see someone place their miners touching their water pipes so you get warm water from your tap (kind of like a functional water cooling), while making money mining.  Especially during winter.

Bad idea, S2 antminer produce some metallic smell which might be bad for you..

Just spray some perfumes to remove that metallic smell in clothes.
I tried drying clothes like that and no such smell.
My drying room was not closed but, air circulated from one side through the devices and exit through the the other side.

You guys don't understand that these machines are built in China & the radiation etc is not regulated... I bought a radiation tester and found my rooms were now "extremely high" in radiation & I've now stopped mining in my house completely. A few dollars a day is not worth my health!

That's exactly true. Chinese unbranded(major) products are unsafe to use.

Hulk Smash it

That's actually another way of looking at it.  If it's like 1st generation ASIC or FPGA old, you can't sell it on eBay or otherwise, and your electrical costs are sky high, then there's an out right there.

http://old.thehacktory.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/office-space-employees-smashing-printer.jpeg

It'd be a good stress release, just make sure you toss the remains in a dumpster after.   :P

If this is the case with miners, then all these warehouses where the manufacturers are setting up data centres with thousand of these things running 24/7 are all gonna be no go radiactive wastelands soon then??

Space Heaters for your home.

Here is a thread I started a while ago seeing if it would be feasible to heat your house with GPU's. To see if the heat created and coins generated could outweigh the cost of heating a home normally.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=320984

Anyone want to convert the math for the current bitcoin ASIC's see how many you might need to fully heat a house?

The heat from the 4 S3s and three S1's I run next to my armoire melt the candles I had about 5 feet above the miners and off to the right.  My wife turns the air off at night even though I told her not too and now she hates me for killing her candles... :D

Well, you need to have better ventilation.

If you don't need your Bitcoin Miner, you can sell it for a better price.
Something is better than nothing actually.

Agree, the price on ebay is ridiculously higher then market price for some reason.

i heat home in winter with them

Its unhealthy.

Whilst almost every electronic device offgases nasty chemicals, you can use a heat recovery air to air exchanger. For example, google something like a Fantech - SH704 - Heat Recovery Ventilator. You can reverse the process to keep those nasty chemicals separate to your living space air.

I am currently running few S2 Antminer and taking it apart and seeing what is inside indeed make me wonder is it really toxic. I had purchase a meter from ebay to test the radioactive reading. Each S2 cards resembles a graphic card and nothing more. I wonder how toxic can it be. BTW i believe 80% of electronics from the world are from China so lets not stereotype.

Thanks

I don't think its radioactive, but the air that come out from S2 antminer should have metal smell which isn't really good for human body..

It's not about the radiation it emits since no ionising radiation is emitted by these devices.
The health hazard occurs from the chemicals released with extreme hot air.
This is not like computers running normally.

I just fired up my good ol BFL jalapeno for the first time in 3 months to keep my foot warm while i'm browsing  :P a whopping 5.5Gh/s!!!!

Guys,

Maybe i have a stuff nose but i really dont smell weird stench from my S2. :D now what on earth am I going to use the EMF reader for when it gets here then ... :) Ghost Hunting!!!!

I've heard of some miner programs developed in China which can serve this purpose, not sure if they works or not.

http://www.vnbitcoin.org/litecoincalculator
http://www.vnbitcoin.org/bitcoincalculator

 >:(

i used to use my old antminer s1 as a spaceheater, save money lol ;D

Outdated ASICs can be used for mining MediterraneanCoin : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=397831.0 .

I keep seeing people state that heating with miners is bad for your health, but with no proof presented. Proof or BS.

Whats special with this coin to get more profit?
Or, as usual you are asking to "contribute to network"?

Are you sure? My mining farm smells like burning metal....

I was worried and purcahse a Electromagnetic Radiation Detector and this are my photo result. Next would be Toxic testing...

Send me a like ...

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Nice, good job. So we are fine from Electromagnetic Radiation while using miners? I am glad to hear this.

Those who suspected and tested for electromagnetic radiation from these mining hardwares are utter FOOLs.
But toxicity test, if can be done properly and effectively will help.
Still it's not good to think these low-quality devices as space heaters.

Well,

Anyone wanna give this a go??

ebay/itm/BIONICS-INSTRUMENT-TG-3000BA-TOXIC-GAS-DETECTOR-/181537717176?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a447dbbb8

Need to know how reliable this product is.
Better buy a conventional good quality heater than using these expensive hobby miners.

I believe we can cook egg and food if we put it directly on the heat sink..

Egg cooking is not possible, but you can practically heat water for drinking or bathing.
Keep water in a metal container and place over the heatsink or hot air outlet.
Make sure you keep water in an airtight container.

Its BS, the chemical that these idiots were talking about is the fire retardant coating. It is toxic IF the board is on fire, within 10 seconds the fire should be self-extinguished. The smoke is toxic gas.

Some dumb ass confused this with the "smell" by from the warm exhaust fan. The smell is most likely from cooling oil residue from manufactured metal parts in the miner.

Their argument about high temp is laughable. They said its safe from normal computer because its not as hot as bitcoin miners. Dumbest shit i've heard. Pick an IR camera and look into your computer retards.

My source: Work in datacentre industry, EE degree.

Well to be fair, it is generally bad for your health when things catch fire in your home, but this is regardless of any chemicals inside what has caught fire. 

Hahahahaa..!! I use mine for the same.!! + I switch it on when its cold...works as a pretty good heater.! :D

Thank you for clarifying!

OMG HAHAHAAHA. I just actually had my first laugh of today. Thank you.

My garage is an amazing 75 degrees every morning, no matter what temp it is outside.
I don't even care about bitcoins anymore - fetching shit out of my trunk in my pajamas without nipping is way more valuable.

toys for your childrens
so when they grow up they will say "hey i have played with bitcoin miners when i was 2 years old"
i don't think there is any other use of those ASIC miners other then bitcoin mining

yes if it doesnt bring profit

If you all had listened to ME, and not bought these damn ASICs in the first place, this topic wouldn't exist now!!!

Admit it - I was right!  You pissed away lots of money on a scam that made ASIC manufacturers rich, and you got the shaft and an empty bank account.

Tim was right.  Everyone say it.

You can use the old miners it to scam  ;)

How about using them for something really different, like cryptography?  8)

Blockchains can be used for different things, and an ASIC might be an efficient way to secure data and communications.

best use ever

Can the machines not be reconfigured to support / mine / sustain any other blockchain technologies ?

You have to find someone that buys it and pays all the Ebay fees but you will probably end up with a better deal that running your hardware especially if you pay for electricity

You can mine testnet Bitcoins. They are supposed to be worthless though.

who knows about the future, right? :D

No, someone attempted to monetise these in the past and a number of changes were made to testnet to make it worthless to prevent people mining testnet into oblivion making it impossible to test anything on it. You can reset testnet difficulty to 1, and the testnet blockchain is not set in stone, it can be reset to a new genesis block. There's a reason it's called "test"net. It's for testing changes easily, not to make it another worthless piece of shit altcoin that someone tries to make money off.

I could probably find another use for something running Linux 3.10 openwrt on mips with ethernet and wifi if I had to, you could disconnect the ASICs and run it as a router or file share or repeater

This doesn't mean that people won't try to somehow profit off of the test net. All any of this really means is that whoever get suckered into buying any testnet coins would most likely end up with another worthless altcoin

But we are trying to find an alternate purpose of ASICs itself and not the controllers.
Everyone knows the answer, no consistent meaning full purpose other than SHA-D

Then you should change the question from "What can I use Bitcoin miners for" to "What can I use the ASICs from Bitcoin miners for"