What can I use Bitcoin miners for other than mining?

[promojo]

Anybody try using it to heat your water heater?

Lol how would you do that?  have it exhaust out on the water tank?

Something like a watercooling system

I think that would be a challenge as you need to put cooling heatsinks/tubing on the asic chips -> water heater.

[619mining]

Most of the miners out there are based on Linux, whether raspberry PI, BeagleBone or other form(s) of controllers.
Some of these are fast, decent performing boards, while others (Raspberry PI as an example) are pretty slow overall.

You could in theory disconnect the hashing boards inside the units and turn them into web-servers, cloud servers, storage servers,
mysql servers etc.    I have already done this with broken cointerra boxes I have by extracting the Beaglebone boards and installing different
linux versions on them.  They are great for small low traffic DNS servers DHCP servers and web servers for low traffic (perhaps home media center?) servers.

I even have a wordpress site running on one just for shits and giggles.

[promojo]

Most of the miners out there are based on Linux, whether raspberry PI, BeagleBone or other form(s) of controllers.
Some of these are fast, decent performing boards, while others (Raspberry PI as an example) are pretty slow overall.

You could in theory disconnect the hashing boards inside the units and turn them into web-servers, cloud servers, storage servers,
mysql servers etc.    I have already done this with broken cointerra boxes I have by extracting the Beaglebone boards and installing different
linux versions on them.  They are great for small low traffic DNS servers DHCP servers and web servers for low traffic (perhaps home media center?) servers.

I even have a wordpress site running on one just for shits and giggles.

So what you are doing there is using the controller... fair enough... but those asics are still rendered useless.. right?

[Cranky4u]

I use my obsolete miners as dust collectors. I live in the desert so they'll soon be virtually invisible. Maybe thousands of years from now some archaeologist will uncover them and wonder what the hell they were for.

If they are sitting around as dust collectors, would you consider 'donating' them to a renewable energy based mining system? I put my initial 1st round of BTC profits into a 1.5kW solar array, based in central Victoria - Australia. I now use the array to churn the blockchain with old gear...

[Cranky4u]

Heat a tropical fishtank by installing water cooling blocks on the ASIC and use the fish tank as the reservoir.

[thew3apon]

Heat a tropical fishtank by installing water cooling blocks on the ASIC and use the fish tank as the reservoir.

That would be really risky unless you install another temperature controller so the fish tank don't get too hot..

[ltorsini]

Anybody try using it to heat your water heater?

Lol how would you do that?  have it exhaust out on the water tank?

Something like a watercooling system

I think that would be a challenge as you need to put cooling heatsinks/tubing on the asic chips -> water heater.

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.

[Corenin]

Anybody try using it to heat your water heater?

Lol how would you do that?  have it exhaust out on the water tank?

Something like a watercooling system

I think that would be a challenge as you need to put cooling heatsinks/tubing on the asic chips -> water heater.

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.

That is a good idea, but it sounds really difficult and would cost a lot for renovation..

[adesanctis]

I think as long as the bath is set up in a modular way (components can be dropped in and out in the same slot spaces ((standardization! aw yissss!)) when upgrades are needed), we could get it done.

www.3xergy.com -------> for review!

[johny08]

I think as long as the bath is set up in a modular way (components can be dropped in and out in the same slot spaces ((standardization! aw yissss!)) when upgrades are needed), we could get it done.

www.3xergy.com -------> for review!

This dance happens countless times a day….and that’s still only running 10% of brain capacity. What if you could take that remaining 90% and send it out over a Grid for someone else to use?

--> yeah , thats esoteric BS. Better keep away from that to prevent bad experience and loss of time.

[robstark]

I used it as a heater last winter. and felt good

[wunkbone]

I used it as a heater last winter. and felt good

ASIC release metal smell which is bad for health..

[Barnabe]

I used it as a heater last winter. and felt good

ASIC release metal smell which is bad for health..

As someone said before, you just have to open your windows once in a while.

[redsn0w]

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 .

You can use your miner to warm your room  . I think is a best solution for the winter.

[promojo]

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?

[cryptomad]

Room Heater? If u live in cold country

[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

[becker]

I'm going to open a chain of laundromats

The key is you can charge less for drying the clothes, and only need the tumblers for the dryers, so can save money, and upkeep and maintenance on the dryers will be minimal.

Also, the water line for the hot water heater, will be fed through the "heat" chamber with the exhausted air from the miners, heating the copper tubing water pipe up probably 20 degrees, saving more money!!!
 

It's science.

[promojo]

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.

[MelodyRowell]

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 video is 2 years ago so he is making a lot of money..