The Easy Butt Oven
This simply has to be seen to be believed. From Bitcointalk: “Spent some time last year building an air economized rig instead of the standard air conditioned setup.”
Thanks to Everdraed and Something Awful.
I would like to introduce to you the “Cryonic FrostBit
After the thrilling success of Reddit’s big Bitcoin bash, it’s no secret that the bitcoin economy is paper thin. Nevertheless, the Humble Indie Bundle was harassed enough by Reddit to decide to accept Bitcoins as payment. This was heralded as a “wonderful achievement” by the community and just more proof that Bitcoin’s economy was as strong as ever.
So how did they do? Not so well, actually.
A whopping 1/10th of a percent of sales. At least they were generous with their internet fun bux.
Wired got sent a bitcoin miner from Butterfly Labs and they put it through it’s paces. Wired then decided to setup the most boring “Let’s Play” and start livestreaming the thing just hashing away, a mind numbing endless stream of random numbers on a screen.
Since Wired is a journalistic entity and it would probably be very unethical to profit off the mining of a free review unit sent by a company, Wired decided to destroy the keys to the wallet file used to store the bitcoins.
But in the end, the answer was obvious. The world