Perhaps if it was integrated into more products as many have suggested, i.e. forced-air home heating, clothes drying, water heating, etc. To be sure, these are all still industrial-type solutions that justify the electrical cost in utilizing the heat byproduct.
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Agree. But this won't happen until mining chips are significantly cheaper. And even when it scales to IOT like residential applications it won't be significant compared to stranded / wasted energy mining.