Still zapping but wouldn’t the btc miner feature negatively affect longevity of a device that you actually want to have longevity?

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I'm of similar opinion to yours, in either case I have never observed an ESP32 to suffer wear issues.

The data itself is stored on the external memory card. So even if the device breaks, the data is saved. Some memory cards advertise a life span of 20 years for usage in surveillance cams.

Last but not least, this should be an optional feature. Maybe a warning can be added. The miner itself will only use one of the CPUs (has two of them) so I'm curious to see how it would react with less one CPU available.

It’s a fun idea and if you or anyone using it ever hits a block it’s a massive marketing win.

Warning plus options for it to fail and then limp to another device seems like a reasonable compromise for the potential upside…

Yep