Water great idea! Bitcoin mining heats this swimming pool

Water great idea! Bitcoin mining heats this swimming pool

A Bitcoin miner is heating his entire swimming pool so his kids can swim–all while securing the Bitcoin network and making money. A Bitcoiner has "pooled" off another mining innovation. The 'waste' heat generated by mining Bitcoin (BTC) is used to warm his swimming pool. Bitcoin enthusiast Jonathan Yuan had kids who “love swimming, but the year before [he started using waste heat], they barely ever did it because it was always too cold for them.” Fortunately, he was interested in Bitcoin mining and understood that Bitcoin mining emits a lot of heat. Yuan told Cointelegraph that he....


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