|
TradersWay.JC
|
 |
September 20, 2014, 04:39:01 PM |
|
Found this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=789946.0Thought it was pretty creative. Not sure if the air flow would be sufficient but who knows. |
Trader's Way - Forex & Binary Options Trading, Accepts Bitcoin - US Traders Accepted  Get a 100% Deposit Bonus when you sign up with us. Free VPS with deposits above $1000 |
|
|
iamjimsmith
Newbie
 Offline
Activity: 1
Merit: 0
|
|
September 20, 2014, 08:16:45 PM |
|
I use my BFL jally to keep my coffee warm.just put the cup on top
like its a very tall coaster. shame it can't be used for World Community Grid.
|
|
|
|
|
|
silversurfer1958
|
|
September 20, 2014, 10:10:05 PM |
|
As the difficulty continues to rise, Perhaps someone may find a way to use them for mining Brainwallet addresses.
|
|
|
|
stevegee58
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 916
Merit: 1003
|
|
September 20, 2014, 10:15:18 PM |
|
The original BFL ASIC miners like the Jalapeno (7 GH/s) have an AVR microprocessor-based controller board in them. Take off the mining ASICS, get yourself an AVR JTAG board and you can teach yourself microprocessor programming.
|
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
|
|
|
|
silversurfer1958
|
|
September 20, 2014, 10:21:14 PM |
|
Maybe when the next round of Asics are being designed they might take all those now defunct asic miners into consideration and design the next asics to fit into the ones that are now defunct.
|
|
|
|
|
cryptost
|
|
September 23, 2014, 10:27:44 PM |
|
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 .
Heating your house or hacking, lol |
|
|
|
|
|
cryptomad
|
|
September 23, 2014, 11:14:38 PM |
|
Try cooking On them? if they get hot enough also Pizza would be great minus the 10,000 btc price... |
|
|
|
|
jspielberg
|
|
September 24, 2014, 05:08:18 PM |
|
I used to live in Canada at one point. Near Edmunton.
Winter there are just brutal. It would be funny to install bitcoin mining in the basement, sound proof it and boom now you got an expensive heater.
Given that all energy translated to waste heat that probably is a energy efficient way to heat the house. And hopefully the mined bitcoin pays for the equipments and more!
|
|
|
|
|
bellgarath1
Newbie
Offline
Activity: 49
Merit: 0
|
|
September 24, 2014, 05:17:31 PM |
|
Use them for heating your storage shed, or pump house. I do.
|
|
|
|
|
ruins
Member
Offline
Activity: 98
Merit: 10
|
|
September 27, 2014, 08:30:09 AM |
|
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 .
I have though of using it to crack password, is it possible? No. How about using the exhaust for drying wood or perhaps to dehydrate food (make your own beef jerky)? be careful about the fire, that is your house, buddy. |
|
|
|
|
|
Bitcoin++
|
|
October 03, 2014, 01:14:49 PM |
|
Mine Testnet coins with it. It is a clone of Bitcoin intended for testing only. The coins are worthless, so you can give them away. Your charitable donations will be good for your soul and the heat from the ASICs will make your home heat up. Connect to a pool here - http://testnet.ckpool.org/
|
|
|
|
|
BlackFurry
Member
Offline
Activity: 74
Merit: 10
|
|
October 03, 2014, 05:08:12 PM |
|
What about scrypt miners? Can it be used in future for something other except mining or heating?
|
|
|
|
|
|
Stinky_Pete
|
|
October 03, 2014, 05:11:12 PM |
|
If you collect enough of them, you could play Jenga.
|
|
|
|
-ck
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 4116
Merit: 1635
Ruu \o/
|
|
October 04, 2014, 07:39:55 AM |
|
What about scrypt miners? Can it be used in future for something other except mining or heating?
No one should be using them now, let alone any time in the future... |
Developer/maintainer for cgminer, ckpool/ckproxy, and the -ck kernel
2% Fee Solo mining at solo.ckpool.org
-ck
|
|
|
|
allcoinminer
|
|
October 06, 2014, 01:00:43 PM
Last edit: October 07, 2014, 06:00:30 AM by allcoinminer |
|
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 .
Meaningful re-purposing for ASIC miners are not possible in the long run. Temperately may use as a space heater (hazardous to health), Cloth dryers, etc along with btc mining. |
|
|
|
|
Snorek
Legendary
Offline
Activity: 1400
Merit: 1001
|
|
October 07, 2014, 01:20:39 AM |
|
I heated up a slice of pizza on the heat sink of my old Antminer S1.
Its so unhealthy... it might be cancerous.. Pizza was wrapped inside of aluminum foil. Actually heated it quite nicely but it took a little while.  What? Really? I would not recommend eating that. You could mutate or something. But it is true that you can use your old mining equipment as a heater... |
|
|
|
|
Business
Newbie
Offline
Activity: 37
Merit: 0
|
|
October 08, 2014, 05:22:33 AM |
|
You can use it for heat up the house in cold times.
|
|
|
|
|
|
fewcoins
|
|
October 08, 2014, 02:15:48 PM |
|
Why does everyone keep saying heat when this thing will have you in a hospital by 2016... Trust me your bitcoins won't help then. I think everyone is trying to sell their miners right now honestly
|
|
|
|
|
|
IamCANADIAN013
|
|
October 10, 2014, 02:22:40 AM |
|
I currently have 4 cube miners running in my house. As the temp is starting to drop, I am using them to heat my spare bedroom, den, and living room. I have baseboard heating and they currently are doing just as good of a job. Haven't had to turn on the baseboard heaters, and I still have the windows open a bit as the miners do a damn good job at heating the rooms. I bought one cube back in February and I had the other 3 given to me by a buddy. That's the only reason I'm doing it.
Obviously I'm not getting much in return, but from what I can tell the miners are currently cheaper than using the heaters for electricity, so I figure what the hell.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Bitcoin++
|
|
October 10, 2014, 07:14:04 AM |
|
Why does everyone keep saying heat when this thing will have you in a hospital by 2016... Trust me your bitcoins won't help then. I think everyone is trying to sell their miners right now honestly
Why would heat from a Bitcoin miner be dangerous. My undervolted S1s run at only 40C. That's less than laptops, playstations, etc. I've never heard any report that heat from computers can be dangerous. |
|
|
|
|
|
