One of the best things we can do for bitcoin right now is to develop more at-home mining solutions. Think umbrel for mining.
We need to further decentralize mining. Integrate it into your home, in some way, that’s easy and fun.
I’ve seen cool videos and such, but are there any companies/startups really pursuing this?
Future Bit does this low terahash at home miner and node. This seems to be aimed at people who cannot fire on a full on miner for the sound and heat etc. like apartments etc.
Heat. Heating units need to be miners. I started this last winter and it’s a huge deal. Working to get it operating via the thermostat.
Don’t have the time to make it a company, but definitely should be
Yeah I saw nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8 do this with a space heater too! Be cool to see what happens in 2-5 years with this, hopefully/probably sooner
ASIC powered composting would be interesting
Been thinking about this for years. I own a plastics manufacturing company, and can build liquid immersion tanks at scale.
Really need to sink my teeth into this more. Heat transfer through liquid seems essential, and already being used to heat pools, hot tubs, home water etc….no reason it couldn’t be used for in floor heating.
I have it set up with a sweet DIY thermostat but right now it only has two temperatures, 0 and 120 degrees
The solutions are getting there. I don’t think they’re quite there yet. FutureBit makes a node+miner+desktop computer. Only maxes at 3.8 TH/s, but I use it as my Linux desktop and my personal lottery ticket solo mining. Curious to see what emerges from Block’s MDK, hoping that will make it easier to home mine.
Until then, everyone should have an S9 in their home.
If Tatum builds it, they will come 
Adding to the companies mentioned un other comments, there's also some interesting work going on developing open hardware and open software for #bitcoinmining .
You can follow the progress on some projects: #bitaxe (by nostr:npub1ql2zzp3g6yndgz05js7wdc4qkr88wkyne5nw2cc7csrtzqs0yeesgwrxya ) or #nerdminer (by bitmaker@nostrplebs.com, still not using ASIC though)
I know it’s not a yearround solution but I’ve got one s9 planned for my garage heater this winter and hopefully another (@Roninminer) for my son’s basement.
