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Elon musk approves… the bathtub to Bitcoin….

Following the recent news from Elon Musk calling a Dogecoin heated bath a "great idea," a prominent Twitter user, "Documenting Bitcoin," tagged Tesla's CEO to show him a heated bathtub from Bitcoin mining.

Unlike the idea with DOGE, the heated tank for mining Bitcoin really works. Ultimately, heat is just a byproduct of computing, as anyone who has a laptop knows. The more complex the computing, the more heat it produces. "Bitcoin stoves" existed for some time, a BTc bathtub is possible, if you are not afraid of getting an electric shock, because it is a system that works on electricity. .

And Elon Musk replied:

There are actually already useful methods to use the heat from BTC mining. For example, Genesis uses excessive heat to heat an experimental greenhouse …


On May 29, the Blockfolio app offered billionaire Tesla to create a potential new "use case" for mining Dogecoin: a heated bathtub with backup energy from a DOGE mining rig. It just seemed like an ironic idea, but Elon Musk replied that it was "a very good idea". Too bad that DOGE mining does not produce enough heat compared to BITC, paradoxically it uses too little energy.

Then someone will have to explain that the electricity that his teslas use also comes from fossil sources, and that to produce his magnificent lithium – cobalt batteries, unique places in South America are destroyed or miners in the Congo are exploited … ..


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This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/elon-musk-approva-la-vasca-da-bagno-a-bitcoin/ on Tue, 01 Jun 2021 19:09:57 +0000.