What can I use Bitcoin miners for other than mining?

[Flying Hellfish]

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.

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?

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

That looks like a GPU setup.

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

[notbatman]

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"

[odin1985]

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

[valkyrie69]

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!

[Ayers]

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

[homm88]

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.

[coinits]

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 .

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

[ChuckBuck]

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.

[WestChi]

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

[SikoSoft]

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.

[-ck]

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.

[chaosknight]

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.

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

[Cboy]

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

 The amount of gold on them is worthless .

[ed_teech]

Maybe reconfig them to mine altcoins

[seattlenonsmoker]

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.

[whitemage]

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

[seattlenonsmoker]

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!

[BitcoinAddicts]

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

[ThePhwner]

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.

[TheDragonSlayer]

Does growing drug need heat?