I do still remember mining before eth came out, and 2015 bear market mining with cgminer and almost every day pop up altcoin mineable, but only last couple days and turn out not profitable, even some new algos become hot coin only few weeks and die, its hard times but its fun, this forum fill up with exciting guys, now todays like ghost town, i wont be sire with raven, ergo, flux many these fill up by fpga and flooded gpu miner from eth.

In regions with cheap electricity, villages are usually built to rent out to miners.
If the power engineers come with the police, they can confiscate the equipment. Then, through the court, the power engineers can force the miner to pay at the commercial rate.
If you are talking about replacing transformers and electrical wires in the whole village, then it is very expensive. This will require coordination with energy organizations, fire departments, and will take a lot of time, but you will still have certain consumption limits. It is not profitable.

It really can make it easier to reduce water heater consumption. But even so, water will hardly come out of close to the miners at 40 degrees, unless the tubes pass really close to the chips.

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Following our conversation about plants, I found this news very interesting. Where in the Netherlands a tulip producer in partnership with a bitcoin miner, the greenhouses are heated:
https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/12/12/a-bitcoin-miner-and-tulip-grower-team-up-to-reduce-costs

Yes, 60 degrees in the tank or at the water heater outlet. Because then the water will run through some more tubes that will cool the water. When you get to the shower, the water should be around 40 degrees.

I am not questioning the power of the miners, capable of heating water, what I am saying is that in order to heat the water effectively, the water had to pass very close to the chips. That's where the heat is. If they pass 20 or 30 centimeters away, they will only catch the air emitted by the miner, who will walk at around 40 degrees. Which will be insufficient to heat water effectively.

Heating water is one thing, heating the environment is another.

It is not the size of the tubes or their length that will make the difference. It may help to raise the temperature a bit, but you need to receive more than 60 degrees of temperature to get hot water for a bath. Unless it's all next to each other. Even so, the cold water entering the plumbing would not heat up enough to be useful in a bath.

I don't know if you know, but for example, the evacuated tube solar collectors, used to heat water using the energy of the sun, need to work almost close to 100 degrees, to be able to heat the water that passes through the pipe so that it stays with a few 60 degrees.


Already heating the environment is all easier. Tropic plants live in temperatures around 30~40 degrees, this is the normal temperature generated by miners. You just have to wait to heat the space to that temperature, which it will naturally maintain.

But do you think that the heat generated will be enough to heat water? If the water is still, yes, but if it is flowing, no.
Don't forget that the miners' 60 degrees temperature is next to the chips and not in the surrounding air. Each miner should release about 30~40 degrees into the air. Therefore, unless the tubes pass next to the chips, the generated air will hardly be enough to significantly heat water. Water can be warm, but not hot for a good bath.


EDIT:
Actually a car radiator has the same method, but the water pipes pass right next to the engine, which is working at more than 80 degrees.


EDIT 2:
Take, for example, the water heater for the bath. It has to be heated to 40~50 degrees, so that when you get to the shower, you have the ideal temperature for a good shower. And we are talking about direct flame in the tube. If the air in the room is at that temperature, it hardly heats water.

That's right, I think the cost of installing this type of solution is too expensive for the benefit. If it is to heat the water in a swimming pool, it can be used, but I think it would be too expensive for the efficiency generated. I find it more efficient to use this heat to heat the environment/house than to heat water.

Any equipment that generates heat (electric) does not like humidity. It is true that there are equipment that are prepared for this type of scenario, obviously.
In this type of case, which we are talking about here, the mining equipment would have to be in a separate room from the plants, but with the generated heat directed towards the plant room. But I agree that the idea will not be the most efficient for effective plant production.

But I remember a few years ago, having read a news story about a mining farm that consumed energy clandestinely, which was discovered by the police, because the police thought that the facilities were used for the production of drugs, due to the heat generated and consumed energy.

I am mining at home now in winter and I must say I am only running half of the rig because that is more than enough to mine ETHW which has a really low difficulty right now and by doing so I have not at all turned on the air conditioner except maybe 30 minutes maximum in the morning and 30 minutes as maximum in the evening,that is a huge savings on the bill which an air conditioner like the one I have consumes at the beginning 3000 watt and then when the inverter pulls in like 800-900 watt compared to my half mining rig at 350 watt as a maximum consumption,so I got basically some free heating by doing so.

It depends on how long summer is in your country. If you have 4 months of summer, then in the remaining 8 months, growing food will be very difficult, trumpeting time and good skills.  You can buy a house in the village and take care of your own garden when the profit from mining is enough to live on, but now everything has changed.

Investing in country assets is always safe, especially countries like the US. Now, if you say that it has less profitability in the short/medium term, yes it can happen.
But, taking into account how the FED has increased interest rates, this type of investment is currently very profitable, at least in the short term.

I understand that you have chosen good video cards with a good cooling system, but not everyone is so lucky.
My colleagues have problems with these graphics cards and have been forced to deal with overheating issues. I have a lot of cheap open cases and don't want to spend money on closed cases or extra ventilation.

I like that some bull runs deep in your belief.

Yeah there is no short cut to this. You basically want to instamine a bunch of coins since the difficulty will be low and then by shear luck if it ever hits an exchange you can make decent profit off it. Sure it’s possible but you gotta check the threads everyday and stay aware of any scam projects and 90% of the projects now are all ICOs which are unmineavle, you gotta buy those tokens.

Back in 2014 everyday there was some new coin which was mineable and a couple days later it appeared on the largest exchange and you could sell it then. Those days are long gone unfortunately since ETH went live with erc20 token.