If you don't ask, it won't happen. Don't lose the ability to talk to people.
When our solar contractor built our system, I asked if he could install a power point in the shed that turned on when the batteries hit 95% and off again at 60%. He was intrigued and said no worries and just made it happen.
Then I educated him on bitcoin mining and made some comparisons between how much you can mine vs how much you can make with a feed-in tariff back to the grid (fuck all).
Then I asked if I could pay some of the bill in home raised, grass fed beef. He was very receptive and gave his contractors a beefy Xmas bonus.
His work was extremely professional, he now has a better understand of bitcoin, his workers' families got fed real food for Xmas, the tax man saw less, we're now completely off-grid, we're mining bitcoin again using limitless energy from the sun and it's all automated.
#homesteading
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Nice.
I want to do something similar, but if temperatures are above 36°c airconditioning switches on instead of Bitcoin miner.
I can already run the bitaxe 24/7 on the solar, but internet connection is so expensive and miners take up all the bandwidth that I just can't use the internet for anything else if it's running.
Thinking about getting starlink, but I need more hashrate to justify it.
Hell ya man! Very creative.
Miners shouldn't take up much bandwidth.
Fair enough to prioritise AC, but I've found, when temp is above 30⁰, we're banking way more electricity than we can use, even with the AC on.
As starlink prices reduce, we'll definitely switch too.
It's probably the phone being used as a modem with the limited bandwidth rather than the network now that I think about it.
It can handle one bitaxe, with two running nothing loads.
Our batteries are pretty much always charged and we just put up more panels.
Could be running way more appliances than we do.
No point being connected to grid because the daytime tax on feeding power into the grid makes it cost more than you get back.
An old secondhand inefficient aircon would be cheap, I've been keeping an eye out for one, people usually send them to landfill instead of selling unfortunately.
Just to dump excess power.
Eventually I'd like to do the same with another miner but the ones I got now don't draw enough power to worry about switching them off.
I see
How much power does your setup take? not whole house, but just the bitaxe.... I am setting up some solar mainly for the out buildings (don't want to go through the hassle of an interconnect. ) but am working on enough extra capacity that I can if needed connect the house, but that means I will have a bit of excess power generation so was thinking miner.
What a beautiful value exchange!
Abundance comes when we play positive sum games.
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FYI, bitaxe is more of a novelty and talking point rather than a miner.
You can get an s19 pretty cheap these days and if you run 3rd party firmware, you can 'underclock' it so it uses less power.
