Ask HN: Bitcoin miner vs. my hot water heater
3 by sschueller | 3 comments on Hacker News.
Serious question regarding energy usage. Is there a large difference between the energy used by my hot water heater which is basically a wire with resistance that gets hot vs a crypto miner that gets hot? How does flipping bits in a CPU compare with the resistance in a wire? I'm not going to replace my hot water heater with a miner but I am curios about how they compare. People are complaining a lot about the wasted energy in mining and I am wondering if it would make sense or be feasible to use the heat energy generated by mining like in certain data centers. [1] [1] https://ift.tt/1OyVC13