Bitfury - Mining Lighbulb

[chek2fire]

I just saw this in twitter

https://twitter.com/chijs/status/603599293602234368

Bitfury developed a light bulb that automatically mines Bitcoin when you screw it in. #sideproject #blockchainsummit

there is no details or info about the project

[chek2fire]

[alh]

So does it still mine, even after I turn off the switch?

Besides being a crazy stunt, what does it cost, what's the hashrate, and what's it's power draw?

Have the guys talked to 21 Inc.? Maybe they can get a $116 million cash infusion from a bunch of VC firms! 

[dunand]

The bulb have to be connected to internet in some way. They just need a simple interface to activate or deactivate mining (heat). In the summer you can just use the light. In the winter, you mine all the time. Or they can simply add on switch on the bulb.

[notlist3d]

Very neat idea do you have more details?  I assume it's running wifi.  What's the efficiency on electricity?

Thanks for sharing.  Very cool.

[RoadStress]

We want more infoz!

[Xian01]

Color me interested. Looking forward to more details.

[kano]

Reminds me of the first asicminer USBs ...
Wow new toy, gotta buy em ...
asicminer made a fortune selling them (initially well over 2000% cost), but almost every single person who bought them paid more in BTC than they ever made in BTC.
But I guess that's normal for BTC miners, everyone always has a reason why it's OK why they lost BTC

[RoadStress]

Reminds me of the first asicminer USBs ...
Wow new toy, gotta buy em ...
asicminer made a fortune selling them, but almost every single person who bought them paid more in BTC than they ever made in BTC.
But I guess that's normal for BTC miners, everyone always have a reason why it's OK why they lost BTC

This is what most people forget when they are bashing 21inc!

[alh]

You know how the ASICMiner had that little blinking LED? This one can really put that to shame!

I can just see a room filled with these, all blinking randomly..... 

[Meech]

Someone was bound to have a " Bright Idea " sometime... sorry for the pun.  I'll take a 1000w bulb please.  It's neat to see these ideas but come on.  Is 2015 the year of Bitcoin swag and novelties or what?

[sidehack]

Dangit now I need bigger LEDs for my stickminer. Gotta stay competitive!

[Meech]

Dangit now I need bigger LEDs for my stickminer. Gotta stay competitive!

It's all about the Bling!

[goxed]

When does PRE-ORDER begin?

[CanaryInTheMine]

These are likely to be geared towards commercial markets...  You get a "free" bulb or heavily subsidized, but bitfury gets to mine from your power connection.
pretty soon we won't actually own things... we'll just pay to use them instead.  Bitcoin created a platform to be able to do this since the manufacturers of things can get "paid" via mining.

[sidehack]

pretty soon we won't actually own things... we'll just pay to use them instead.

I'm leaving if it gets to that point. 21e6's idea discussion is already worrisome.

I wonder how hard it'd be to proxy the connection away from the manufacturer's pool to your own?

[s1gs3gv]

More 'thinking outside of the box' . The data furnace.


 http://arstechnica.co.uk/business/2015/05/data-furnaces-arrive-in-europe-free-heating-if-you-have-fibre-internet/

[kano]

More 'thinking outside of the box' . The data furnace.


 http://arstechnica.co.uk/business/2015/05/data-furnaces-arrive-in-europe-free-heating-if-you-have-fibre-internet/

You don't already use your miners for heating?
Winter starts here in 3 days ... my night time mining is almost 3x what is was a few months ago

[sidehack]

My furnace only ran this winter when I wanted it quiet in the house. I still air-dry my laundry to an underclocked A1 Dragon. Pretty nice, but now Northern Hemisphere summer is kicking in.

[notlist3d]

The more I look at these the more I want one.  If it does have wifi and mines from simply being plugged in I would love to have one to try.

I would even pay a little bit for one to play with.  Such a unique miner.