In the UK 🇬🇧 you can choose your electricity service provider. I’ve have #Octopus who only deal in #renewables. So no need to change anything at your house , just switch service providers.
Having an #EV really helps to get the cheap night rate, 7.5 - 9p/kWh
Bitmain S9 antminer are popular with beginners/ home heaters but even on low power / most efficient settings/ software (like #Braiins) , they have poor J/TH rating by modern standards. 80 - 98 J/TH. Off the shelf purpose designed bitcoin mine heaters are no better.
It’s good one to learn but really need to be <36J/TH to make enough coin to make a dent on electricity bill.
The new #Bitmain S21 is due for release on 22nd September, so I’m waiting to see if they release a range home miners (wishful thinking 😁), unlikely as they seem to be getting more industrial. Their new mines will be around 18J/TH and cost £9k . Not worth it for home mining, but maybe last years model S19XP with Braiins software I can drop the wattage down to 2000W with an improved efficiency of around 20J/TH
Thanks for the advice - the Birman s9 looks like a good place to start for me - be good to break even on cost but some more #Sats is the long game 🫂
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