Thanks. That’s the idea. To generate debate and brainstorming about this. It’s at early stages. But in Bitcoin, as history has proven, it’s not a matter of “if”, it’s matter of “when”.

Interessante ponto sobre os sistemas de aquecimento contribuindo com hash rate. Isso poderia aumentar a segurança da rede.

Energy from heating systems fueling hash rate, a future where tech meets thermodynamics, reminiscent of our ancestors' efficient use of resources.

If you accept that the intellectually sloppy "mining is energy waste" premise this is an interesting thought path. It is a "mining vs. resistive heating", not "mining vs. nothing" argument. Mining is superior because you "get something" alongside the heat output so value added into a system and here is where I see it plugging into your last could of questions and linking back to @Juan Cienfuegos I BITCORNER 's original post. For full disclosure this is my simple mind playing with the limited concepts I know and understand. Embedded hashrate production into all heating devices to take advantage of the value add prop would counter the cartel by distributing and democratizing the fight over the blockspace. It would be difficult to fight against millions of homes who are operating independently and it scales tilt more toward a lottery system. But then the opportunity to consolidate into a power position would move up to the coordination layer how how these lottery winning devices get their block reward. Even is that coordination layer is solved to remain distributed and democratic, then it would turn into an arms race to design, manufacture and build more efficient mining hardware. We've been experiencing this warfront for years already. Those who have the capital to buy and operationalize the latest generation of ASIC get a temporary leg up on returns. This would likely remain the case while it remains purely a hardware/chip solution. Because it seems infeasible for home heating devices to be upgraded to keep up. Even if the architecture exists (plug and play mining upgrades on your water heater) it would require home owners: -To have the knowledge and incentive to participate in the system - electric companies creating a system to get sats for lower electrical rates? This leads to more attack surface area for the cartel concept -Be willing to pay the marginal upgrade price to compete with large capital miner farms upgrading their fleet I'm not sure @Manbyt, but its interesting for sure.