WiseMining has unveiled a boiler built around ASIC miners that heats water and mines bitcoins.
The Sato boiler’s intermediate heat carrier is a special dielectric cooling fluid that transfers heat from the ASIC miner to the water in the tank.
Data: WiseMining.
In the cooling block, the liquid boils and evaporates, the steam rises into the tank’s coil and condenses, transferring heat to the water. The condensate flows back into the cooling block.
Data: WiseMining.
The boiler design allows hot swapping of the ASIC miner’s hash boards.
Data: WiseMining.
Sato’s maximum thermal output is only 5 kW, which is insufficient as a sole heat source. For this reason the developers have provided for connecting the boiler to the main heating system.
Sales of the WiseMining Sato will begin in April 2021. It will cost $8,990.
Mining equipment must be purchased separately. The boiler is compatible with Antminer S9, S17, S19, S19 Pro, S19+.
In the future the company plans to introduce other household heaters based on ASIC miners.
Earlier, bitcoin enthusiasts have long studied options for using heat from mining equipment. In March 2016, the Ukrainian company Hotmine introduced a miner with a room-heating function.
In November 2017, entrepreneurs from Irkutsk tested a mobile home that is heated and supplied with hot water solely by a crypto boiler based on two mining farms.
In March 2018, a Czech businessman used the heat from a mining farm to grow vegetables.
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