Ashley Class revealed in a TikTok video that she has banned cryptomining from her short-term rentals after an experience at one of her North Carolina properties.Read Entire Article
Ashley Class revealed in a TikTok video that she has banned cryptomining from her short-term rentals after an experience at one of her North Carolina properties.Read Entire Article
That’s interesting. I’m planning a ridiculously large solar power system, mostly sized to allow car charging and water and space heating during poor weather in winter
The upshot of that is when it’s not a rainy winter day it’ll make more power (after what we can use or store) than we’re allowed to export, and more than we can use for part of the day; for practically all the day in summer
That power is worth nearly nothing. If we can’t use it it’ll be wasted (the inverter will move generation away from maximum power point until generation meets usage + export limit)
I wonder how many watts a crypto rig can suck; I wonder what crypto over could mine with 3kW x 6 hours; how much with 10kW x 8 hours
It’d be pretty fun to set up n crypto miners to come on incrementally as they become the best use of generated power. I wonder how long they’d need to run to pay for themselves at $AU0.08 per kWh (export tariff after the first few kilowatt hours, marginal cost of electricity wasted rather than exported)
If you’re more altruistically inclined, you could run BOINC https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
Unless you already have the hardware, buying new just to profit off the short time where it makes sense is not going to pay off.
Indeed, but it’s fun to think about. And it’s an awful lot of hardware to consume fifteen kilowatts, even if 5 kilowatts was spent keeping it cool