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“Fun fact! Did you know that our pools are heated by side energy from bitcoin mining?” – Bathhouse wrote on social media.
Bathhouse has bitcoin mining facilities that generate heat as a byproduct. The post describes how heat is drawn in and used to heat pools through the circulation system.
Subscribers’ opinions are divided. Some noted with admiration the innovative approach.
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“Thanks for the smart use of energy,” one user wrote.
However, there were also those who noted the environmental harms of mining. Also, some people asked who exactly gets their income from mining.
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“It made me have less respect for your bathhouse.. My concern is who mines this cryptocurrency, who profits from it. We need transparency,” wrote another subscriber.
Recall that the Canadian company Heatmine has long been developing and testing a solution by which the heat generated by mining devices will be used for heating, which will help reduce the cost of mining cryptocurrencies.
Kamil Breiha, co-founder of the Czech cryptocurrency exchange NakamotoX, launched a startup several years ago that grows crops using the heat generated by cryptocurrency mining.<br