Driving to the moon? HODLer installs portable mining rig in BMW

[dupee419]

That's innovative and optimistic. Driving while getting to earn some altcoins that he wants? maybe he's using nicehash if it's a graphics card to mine bitcoin?

What for? I don't quite understand why do this?

Experiment? well. If you've got tons of money and crypto holdings. You can do whatever you want with that money.

I do understand that it is an experiment, to be honest, it's actually a great innovative idea, but with 6 RTX 3080 cards only on the rig, I don't think it's sufficient enough and I do have to say that the car's battery won't last enough with that much of a firepower of a rig, imagine 6 GPU's inside your car, definitely an innovative and good idea, but definitely has to have changes and adjustments, especially with the cooling system, that's a killer rig and you need to have a killer cooling setup to normalize the temperature, it's good though and I don't see a reason why this should be stopped, it's just an experiment, well, an expensive experiment indeed.

[death69]

Damn, this guy is insane. No one can be as insane has he is and also this is the first time I heard such thing. From my knowledge, I think that installing mining rig to a vehicle does not harm it too much since car is always operate with fuel so in order for battery to have power, car needs to run. THerefore, the car will not easily be damaged

[Clement Kaliyar]

It is surprising to hear a miner, Simon Byrne equipped his BWM i8 hybrid vehicle retailed for roughly $150,000 to be able mine bitcoin, it is also reported to be able to mine ethereum.

I am not surprised Simon had a good publicity stunt with his mining rig. He knew that his actions will attract some headlines, with a battery power how much hardware he is using to mine bitcoin, i bet he wont be getting any reward that will be profitable and ETH just upgraded to POS and there is no way he will be mining them, he might have mined some before and since you posted this today i am just saying  .

[Charles-Tim]

That's innovative and optimistic. Driving while getting to earn some altcoins that he wants? maybe he's using nicehash if it's a graphics card to mine bitcoin?

Although, the coin that the graphic cards will mine is not yet mentioned. Normally, with the last year reduction in Bitcoin mining reward, while the mining difficulty greatly increased last year, and also still increasing, this has made GPU mining rigs not to mine Bitcoin profitably, also I am doubting if it can mine Ether. But, any news we hear about this will be included on this thread.

[Oshosondy]

Nothing is new here, there’s a news in 2017 that a miner used his Tesla Model S to mine Bitcoin.
I mean he used the electricity aspects of his car, not the computation power from that Tesla.
https://interestingengineering.com/this-tesla-owner-built-a-bitcoin-mining-rig-in-model-s-trunk
I am more interested in how green energy policy will affect crypto mining.

With the picture I saw from the link you provided, this should not be advisable because it looks absurd, miners like GPU do hot to the extent it has set some mining farms ablazed. it will be dangerous to use car to mine, I mean having the mining rigs inside car. It can be that the battery can power it like it is said in the OP board but what about the hit, it is good for us to not risk what we know can be dangerous. Mining should be done in the official way, to use ASIC is the best, only ASIC can mine bitcoin now, GPU will only lead to loss and not advisable.

[adzino]

This guy is probably damn rich to try out stuffs like this. I mean, this isn't an efficient way right? All those electricity he is going to need and even more when driving the car. Also, what like others said, what about the heat issue and the gpus weighing down the car?
Kinda feels like he just did it to get some reaction. He did say though he is doing it to "annoy the gamers" and the earnings are like a "bonus".

[Charles-Tim]

I do not know how the car will be able to mine when it is said that the trunk has to be opened, it is not only about when the car is moving but to avoid overheating, the truck will be opened.

 While this mining rig can be powered by the hybrid car's battery, the trunk needs to stay open to avoid overheating.
https://www.coindesk.com/us-man-installs-crypto-mining-rig-in-hybrid-bmw-sportscar

[Mike Mayor]

This is just silly and something that someone that has too much money than sense does or something someone does just because they can. I would never do this is just ridiculous and unconventional. Do you just leave the car lying around? Why would you want to drive it when it's full of mining equipment?

This is surprising and the first of its kind that I heard, but won't this be injurious to the car?

The extra weight from the graphics cards alone will probably negate the profit...

... unless he can charge his car for free.

Shit post more? You know nothing about mininig.

[pixie85]

This is a useless extravaganza to get free media exposure. I don't like this type of stunt because they make miners look like s spoiler brats. This is serious business and should be taken seriously.

He bought a pretty much useless car so don't blame him.

The I8 is expensive, offers low performance for what you have to pay, offers not very good range and is unreliable. To top it off he sacrificed the trunk run a mining rig and that mining rig is going to make an already low range car even worse.

How far is he going to be able to drive while mining? To the nearest store for groceries and back?

[ene1980]

This guy is probably damn rich to try out stuffs like this. I mean, this isn't an efficient way right? All those electricity he is going to need and even more when driving the car. Also, what like others said, what about the heat issue and the gpus weighing down the car?
Kinda feels like he just did it to get some reaction. He did say though he is doing it to "annoy the gamers" and the earnings are like a "bonus".

The person who is doing these experiment must be wealthy, the weight of GPU is not that much and there is no mentioned about the size but the heat will be a real issue and how he is dissipating it is not clear either, if he added any other addition method to cool the machine which will make the entire thing heavy.  

Either way good to read and it would be great to know what coins he is mining using his car gig  .

[passwordnow]

That's innovative and optimistic. Driving while getting to earn some altcoins that he wants? maybe he's using nicehash if it's a graphics card to mine bitcoin?

Although, the coin that the graphic cards will mine is not yet mentioned. Normally, with the last year reduction in Bitcoin mining reward, while the mining difficulty greatly increased last year, and also still increasing, this has made GPU mining rigs not to mine Bitcoin profitably, also I am doubting if it can mine Ether. But, any news we hear about this will be included on this thread.

GPU cards can still mine Ethereum, I've seen people in other mining forums that they're talking about it able to continuously mine before it's fully POS.
The first one that I've thought about is nicehash, it is only them that I know who only gives a reward in bitcoin through mining with GPU cards.

[Lordhermes]

~a small crypto mining rig consisting of six GeForce RTX 3080 graphics cards.~It is reportedly capable of mining both Bitcoin (BTC)~

You can't mine bitcoin with graphic cards anymore. The only way to mine bitcoin is to use SHA256 ASICs specialized to mine bitcoin. Anything else is only good for weak altcoin mining.

Mere looking at the article, the power and voltage generated to mine those coins were not mentioned at any point, however, I don't think graphics cards are more eligible to mine more profits within the short space of time in the article, AFIAK, the hash rate from graphics cards has as low as 30-50Mh/s compared to ASICs standards of 14Th/s, the difference shows how poor the mining process will go from graphics cards.

[dondonk]

a unique research, but it seems that mining by car still seems a hassle. But in the future it may be possible, with innovations in electricity and mining equipment sizes that are simpler and more compatible for cars.

[TedMosby]

With the picture I saw from the link you provided, this should not be advisable because it looks absurd, miners like GPU do hot to the extent it has set some mining farms ablazed. it will be dangerous to use car to mine, I mean having the mining rigs inside car. It can be that the battery can power it like it is said in the OP board but what about the hit, it is good for us to not risk what we know can be dangerous. Mining should be done in the official way, to use ASIC is the best, only ASIC can mine bitcoin now, GPU will only lead to loss and not advisable.

I don't think that the miner drives his car while mining.
I think he did it for fun because he is tech-savvy, and that idea comes from a joke by someone in his community.
It can be experimental purpose too, to show how good or how powerful Tesla's electricity, so it used for crypto mining to prove it.
I also think that it can be promotional material by Tesla to join the bitcoin hype in 2017, since the "When Lambo" thing still correlated with bitcoin hype that year.
plus, If I am not mistaken Tesla's owner can get free electricity on the Tesla station.