An untypical farm: Russians invent a house heated by mining

Irkutsk, a cold city in Siberia, has the cheapest prices for energy in Russia due to the surplus produced by vast Soviet-era power plants. Naturally, the mining community in this country is slowly making this city what some local reports call “a capital of mining in Russia”.

Latest reports from this region tell about a group of businnessmen who invented one of the strangest forms of ASIC by far: a house with built-in cryptocurrency mining hardware. As Dmitry Tolmachev explains together with his companions, the heat coming as a result of mining can be used to create warm temperature in a house instead of pointlessly “heating the atmosphere”.

The supply of heat is generated by the mining hardware that boils the heat transfer liquid and then this liquid is disseminated around the house under floors via regular heat exchange tubes.

“If we have this opportunity - we must use it, not give it to Chinese or Indians. It’s our people who should benefit” - categorically states Ilya Frolov, another entrepreneur involved in this project. Speaking about benefits, mining with this house will give $430 a month which is good money from many Russians’ perspective.

However, the mining-heated house is still in a test stage. As the reports tell, the team waits for severe frost to test the capability of this heating system.

Previously, Russians invented a small mining heater. Then this house. What could be next?