What can I use Bitcoin miners for other than mining?

[herebittybittybitty]

If you normally have electric heating in your home, you might as well use Bitcoin miners instead. All power used by these things ends up as heat, so in that sense they're just as efficient as a regular heater that uses the same amount of power. Except you also get Bitcoins.

Thanks for answering seriously. Seems we don't have much of a mature community after all.

Our answers were a flippant way of seriously answering your question. They mine Bitcoin. They put out heat. They are useless otherwise.

[Ayers]

heating room is the best bet, and you still mine something

[Nagle]

It's too bad that the FPGA miner era went by so fast. You could reprogram the FPGA devices to do something else. ASICs have one job, and that's all they can do.

[MichaelBliss]

If you waited like 60 years you could probably take your asicminer tube onto the antiques roadshow.   They'll tell you how much bitcoin it'll fetch at auction.

[frankenmint]

Food defroster

De-humidifier (although YOU DONT want them to do this)

noise machine (sounds like a server room drowns out silence)

[Vortex20000]

There's a guy who has to dry wood from his kiln in the US, and he uses bitcoin miners in another room with the hot air vented in. Pretty cool, if you ask me.

[-ck]

It's too bad that the FPGA miner era went by so fast. You could reprogram the FPGA devices to do something else. ASICs have one job, and that's all they can do.

Even this was not really true of FPGAs. Most people here had basically no use for their FPGAs when they stopped mining with them. Yes they can be reprogrammed to do other things, but no miner here ever really came up with a good use for them and the main reason was they kept thinking there would be another use for them that would earn them money.

[notbatman]

My ASIC manufacturer claims they have military encryption applications for their chips. Thieving bastards also claimed they would ship me a miner 6 months ago. They're definitely crooks and liars but it possible there's some truth to this.

[frankenmint]

My ASIC manufacturer claims they have military encryption applications for their chips. Thieving bastards also claimed they would ship me a miner 6 months ago. They're definitely crooks and liars but it possible there's some truth to this.

rly? Military Encryption applications, you bought that??  That's more embarrassing than pre-ordering a monarch.

[promojo]

It truly is quite sad that there can be no other function used for these devices.   Just imagine all the crap that will be in the garbage.  Wonder how much copper/etc are in these for recycling?  Maybe open up a bitcoin ASIC recycling company? LULz.

[jonnybravo0311]

It truly is quite sad that there can be no other function used for these devices.   Just imagine all the crap that will be in the garbage.  Wonder how much copper/etc are in these for recycling?  Maybe open up a bitcoin ASIC recycling company? LULz.

Kind of happens when you're dealing with Application Specific Integrated Circuit... they're sort of purpose built for execution of exactly one thing.

That's probably why you're getting a bunch of comical answers on what to do with them other than mine SHA-256 coins.

[coinits]

It truly is quite sad that there can be no other function used for these devices.   Just imagine all the crap that will be in the garbage.  Wonder how much copper/etc are in these for recycling?  Maybe open up a bitcoin ASIC recycling company? LULz.

Look at it as an appliance. A toaster toasts and a bitcoin miner mines.

[pikabit]

You can warm the room in the winter 

[seriouscoin]

My ASIC manufacturer claims they have military encryption applications for their chips. Thieving bastards also claimed they would ship me a miner 6 months ago. They're definitely crooks and liars but it possible there's some truth to this.

rly? Military Encryption applications, you bought that??  That's more embarrassing than pre-ordering a monarch.

LOL you're very close..... the only company made such claim is infact BFL.

[notbatman]

My ASIC manufacturer claims they have military encryption applications for their chips. Thieving bastards also claimed they would ship me a miner 6 months ago. They're definitely crooks and liars but it possible there's some truth to this.

rly? Military Encryption applications, you bought that??  That's more embarrassing than pre-ordering a monarch.

LOL you're very close..... the only company made such claim is infact BFL.

I ordered from Black Arrow, what a bunch of crooks they're worse than BFL.

[Gogreen]

Heat the room and dry the cloths

[MoonRise]

Air Circulation

[baykan]

Collect 100 BFL 40-50-60 GH/s miners (I think they are all same size.)

Take the ASIC boards out to lighten the box weight down and make the fans work alone without the ASIC boards.

Assamble the boxes to each other to make a board all boxes blowing down...

Put a electric generator on top and a chair.

Making a hoowercraft.

 

Most probably it's not going to work. Box is still heavy without the ASIC boards.

[cisahasa]

should i solo mine some heat

[vortexz]

show off to chichs with your miners, they will get horny.