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🇸🇻's largest mining farm is powered by volcano energy (https://volcano.energy); it provides ¼ 🇸🇻's hashpower.

But are there any mining farms in the 🌎 powered by nuclear microreactors (https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/810209/10024) ☢️?

Who knows, maybe some tech billionaire out there is really building  a hidden underground facility powered by nuclear microreactor for a massive cryptocurrency mining operation.  It sounds wild, but these days, nothing seems too far-fetched!

While using nuclear power for crypto mining raises some practical concerns around safety and cost-effectiveness I suppose if anyone had the means and motivation to try it, it would be an ultra-wealthy tech entrepreneur with more money than they know what to do with and  stranger things have happened in the world of crypto currencies and their enthusiasts, thats for sure.

Hey, if Batman can build the Batcave under Wayne Manor then I wouldnt completely rule out the possibility of someone attempting a real-life supervillain lair to house their epic mining rig.  A nuclear reactor would certainly supply ample electricity! Whether or not it's sustainable or sensible is another question...

There's already the cryptovault (in the Alps, I think it is).

Maybe sneak some onto an aircraft carrier?

There are no existing micro-reactors operating in the world (yet). However at least 1 farm is powered by a conventional reactor https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/03/06/terawulf-starts-nuclear-powered-bitcoin-mining-with-nearly-8000k-rigs-at-nautilus-facility/

as forYou DO know that Batman is a fictional comic book character right? What said character can or cannot do has nothing to do with reality...

No it doesn't;t, and the reason it doesn't is because it doesn't exist!
Even on their plans, the farm is only in the approval stage!

Second, it's not "volcano" energy, its geothermal energy and bitcoin miners in Iceland were a thing before Bukele knew what Bitcoin was.


Microreactors are below 20MW, which would mean at most 5000 Asics, given the actual hashrate there would be at least 6 million S19 running, so massive is not the word.

 

Wow, I did not know that about microreactors!  YOu are right, 5,000 ASICs wouldnt qualify as "massive" these days.  Still, the image of a hidden tech lair powered by a mini nuclear reactor is pretty darn cool.  I wonder if these mini reactors will ever be like, shrunk down and idiot-proof enough for everyday folks to buy one and power their, you know, dream mansion/bitcoin mine (or maybe a post-apocalyptic shelter)? :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_microreactor


so where can i buy a small one just 1mw

that is 800 kwatts or maybe 270 s21s

around 54000th or 54ph

hook it up to a 20 foot box and whale away.

not case no one is going to sell it to you.

it could run up to 10 years before the fuel runs out

Cool might be but when it comes to the business side is quite impracticable.
You're going to have your own grid basically, you have a slower than average baseload response, you need skilled maintenance, you need a specialized workforce, and for ...what really there than being cool?
If you have the money you're better off buying land and having solar panels and then dealing with the storage large scale, battery, or hydrogen, it would be easier to hide than in plain sight.


Teoterticaly there is only one truly active microreactor in existence, that if we believe what China says, so no luck with this.

I remember that the Soviet nuclear submarines that were built in the 1960s were designed to last more than 30 years without changing the fuel for the nuclear reactor.
I don't know the electricity consumption of the submarine, but mining on such a submarine is possible :)
Such technologies are owned by Russia,USA, China, France, Great Britain and India.

Westinghouse makes a 3 MW eVinci microreactor (https://westinghousenuclear.com/energy-systems/evinci-microreactor/) for space and ground military applications.

The late, great Batman was a wonderful man.   :)

I can't post pictures yet, but here is some art I made depicting what I personally think our future will look like lol:

https://ibb.co/sV1fNh1

There are 100% nuclear mining farms out there right now.

An engineer told me that nuclear energy is the cleanest energy so...

bitcoin = clean energy

The people saying bitcoin is a waste of energy are literally lying to you. Very easy to spot demons out there..

Google terawulf for the only nuclear powered large farm I've found out about. That reactor site is also home to a large data center and GPU/AI farm.