I never considered bitcoin mining for the odd new neighbours across the street. Hm.
A weed grow-op to illegally grow legal weed didn’t make sense.
The Death Stars were really cryptominers. The whole blowing up planets thing was just a cover story. The rebels were manipulated into destroying them by the Banking Cartel because they didn’t like Sithcoin competition.
It probably would contravene building codes/zoning laws/health & safety standards/what have you - but yeah, why not just do it somewhere where this wouldn’t be a problem?
And air vented from a server room shouldn’t be moist?
We’re missing something here.
What else can you grow that is illegal?
(I like the “no kitchen garbage on garbage day” observation. I should add this to the things to think about when thinking about opsec list.)
Pot is legal, but only through official sanctioned channels of growing, distribution and sales. I think you can have a personal plant or two, but that’s it. There’s still a niche for illegal grow-ops, but I don’t think using a house at OMFG real estate prices makes sense.
They could dump the server heat into a water tank, and then release it through evaporative cooling late at night. (After police helicopters have gone to bed, because they have good passive IR and scan the local parks.)
But why? Unless they bypass the electric meter, cryptomining is legal.
Heh. So far I’m resisting the temptation to actually observe the house (give the job to a Pi) and keep logs. That would be cheating, and where’s the fun in a good mystery after you’ve solved it?
That’s almost enough to power two De Loreans.
Perhaps a distillation operation. It’s possible that humid air is being vented at all hours but you only notice at night or if its very cold.
Other options are drug production. Or explosives.
It’s ok! Iran only generates and uses a few hundred TWh per year. Plotted against total energy generated worldwide and energy lost due to inefficiencies, that’s practically a rounding error, almost invisible on the chart. So it doesn’t matter if illegal mining is causing blackouts there, bitcoin is still a good thing.
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