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ArjinFerman  Tinfoil Gigachad  1yr ago (text post)   1327 thread views

Tinker Tuesday for October 15, 2024

This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.

Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.

If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service.

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I will soon be founding a Bitcoin mining startup. I have never mined crypto before, but there are a confluence of factors (cheap power, extremely cold weather, low taxes) that make me believe the region I have selected is ideal, and make me willing to spend the time and effort on beginning this company.

As part of the process, I will be finding an industrial site, learning to program programmable logic controllers (PLCs), and designing as well as building a heat exchanger. This will involve some skills I have never done before (brazing, the aforementioned PLC control, setup of BTC miners) and some I have (I’m comfortable with industrial machinery, though far from experienced).

Is this something that the people of the Motte would be interested in updates on?

I would be interested in updates, but I also think we should have a forum policy to instaban anyone shilling crypto on here.

Not anti crypto as a concept, just don't want to see this place turn into a zoo for scammers.

I'm not opposed to this, but I trust the mods enough that I'm not that worried about them being too tolerant of crypto scams. Not exactly the sort of content we encourage here.

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