[illustriousbear]

The thing I find funny about HackerNews is how you see plenty of wasteful hobby projects hit the main page.

Yet someone using a crypto miner to generate heat / side money is somehow a terrible project.

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

It's almost like there are different scales of waste and contributing to a system that burns about as much energy as Argentina to secure a paltry number of transactions is on the higher end of that.

[timdaub]

> terrible project

I think that's a terrible comment. I salute everyone that tries to make the incredible inefficient third law of thermodynamics more efficient.

Sure, you can say that crypto mining is superfluid. But so is all human invented technology to a degree. I rather have someone building a cool heating system than enormous data centers wasting it.