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1. Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 21:31:59 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:
   heating with btc miners seems to be comercialized already. I think I want to build an xmr mining heater.
   • Niclas Hedhman (niclas@angrytoday.com)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 20:53:08 JST Niclas Hedhman

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     @thatguyoverthere

     Funny that... I lived in China 2010-2017, and heating there is an afterthought at best. So, in 2015, I was going to order 2 AntMiners to heat up my apartment. The BTC rewards was going to be a bonus, not the goal.

     I got the information from AntMiner that they were not allowed to ship to China, according to them it was the Chinese State that had the prohibition. Yet, there were massive mining operations in central and western China. Go figure.

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   • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2024 21:26:17 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

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     • Niclas Hedhman
     @niclas yeah from what I've seen for btc a couple AntMiners is the way to go. I remember when they said they were going to stop mining in China. Maybe the import restrictions were put on residential purchases before party affiliated miners were told to stop.
     
     For xmr you just need CPUs so I would like to find a dual socket mobo or a few small form factor boards that I can stack in a custom enclosure. It would be nice to not need separate power supplies for each board too but figuring out how to run multiple computers on a single beefy supply seems more complicated than building a rackmount pdu into the thing. It would probably help keep the costs down though, and definitely the size. The PSUs will produce heat on their own, but the heat generated bedore doing any work first would be a loss of efficiency if the goal is to offset the electrical costs with mining rewards.