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From: Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Product idea
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 14:49:55 -0700
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On 2/11/2025 2:00 PM, bp@www.zefox.net wrote:
> Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2/11/2025 11:19 AM, bitrex wrote:
>>> A lot of people in e.g. mobile homes in New England and (other areas of the US
>>> it gets cold in the winter) are stuck with baseboard electric heat; since the
>>> new administration is so big into crypto it should be decreed that all electric
>>> space heaters sold in the US should mine crypto, and for the baseboards you
>>> could also have the baseboard form factor crypto miner.
>>
>> And, the occupant gets to KEEP any coin that he mines!
> 
> Which begs the question, will the earnings pay the electric bill?

I think bitrex's point was that the person NEEDING heat has
already decided to spend the money on the electricity required.
The realization that the heat could be generated while "doing
useful work" is insightful.

[I believe electric (resistance) heat is among the least? cost effective]