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Winter is coming! As we prepare for this year’s Bitcoin mining heat capture strategy, we’ve been revisiting footage from this past winter.

One of our clips from January 2025 stood out, it features a single WhatsMiner heating one of our small apiary utility spaces. This space stores essential winter supplies to maintain our honeybee hives, including supplemental feed and equipment.

Also housed here is a 300-foot, life-sustaining umbilical that delivers warm liquid feed directly to the hives. This one #Bitcoin mining rig generates enough heat to keep both the feed and the umbilical from freezing, all while earning Bitcoin through nostr:nprofile1qqsq9k04vahllseell55m74n3047y88pzlr0z5yany32st29fapqmgsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfnj7rh46zt

The steady rewards from ocean help offset costs while restocking early spring supplies for the apiary.

Heating your home, business, or utility space is inevitable, whether that energy is wasted or transformed into a valued resource is your choice. Bitcoin mining gives us the power to turn heat into harvest.

https://blossom.primal.net/09e3d7ae15292222e9cbdfb0c0be79dc09c123eba8731111066ada7358cacdcc.mov

aoeu 5mo ago

In a few years I am hoping to get some beehives going on my property. Trouble is that where I can it can get to several days or weeks each winter below -10F.

I’m trying to think through a way if one of the bitaxes powered by batteries and solar panel could provide enough heat for the hive. The other issue then is connecting the bitaxe to the WiFi network. It might be too far away. I will have a #Meshtastic network running.

This might be beyond my ability but had anyone tried using Meshtastic as a bridge to a WiFi network for mining purposes? Does it even have that capability?

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BeeEvolved 4mo ago

It’s entirely possible to supplement the heat in a beehive, and the Bitaxe would be perfect for the job, but it has to be a delicate balance. The challenge with supplemental heating is that it also impacts humidity, which can just as easily doom a hive in winter. The key is subtle supplementation. I know beekeepers in extremely cold climates who have done everything from surrounding hives with hay bales for insulation to housing them in massive barns. We currently have a supplemental heating project in development using our Bittyaxe design and solar, with plans to upgrade to the Hashdisk for the final build.

aoeu 4mo ago

This looks awesome. Let me know how it works and if the design is available somewhere.

BeeEvolved 4mo ago

Absolutely, the data and updates will be noted on Nostr.