A French company has produced a heater capable of mining cryptocurrencies

French startup Qarnot has created a new heater that mines cryptocurrencies.

Yes you heard it right, Qarnot’s QC1 is a heater for your home with a passive computer built into it.. And the computer inside the QC1 is optimized for mining only.

You can heat a room with several desktops. And heat is still one of the hardest challenges to overcome when building a data center. You need to cool thousands of computers running 24/7.

Qarnot started considering edge computing for use in data centers in 2010.. Producing computerized heaters with a large number of processors in this direction, the company sold them to construction companies looking for heaters for their new buildings.. On the other end of the equation, companies such as BNP Paribas, Societe Generale, Air Liquide and Blender lease these servers in line with their own needs.. In other words, Qarnot built a decentralized data center.

And now the company sells its first products directly to its users.. Considering that it is an excellent use case for cryptocurrency mining, Qarnot took an important step with the QC1 product.. The QC1 includes two AMD GPUs (Sapphire Nitro and Radeon RX580) with 8GB VRAM and is designed to mine Ethereum by default.

Ethereum after plugging in an Ethernet cable By registering your wallet address in the mobile app, you can be ready to mine in a few minutes.

If you want to mine Litecoin or any other cryptocurrency, you can set it up.

You can set your cold home to 60 You can warm up the QC1, which has two GPUs running at MH/s.. For QC1, the sale price of which is set at $3600, it is also possible to pay with Bitcoin.. The company hopes to sell hundreds of QC1s next year.

Qarnot reports that at current Ethereum price, you can generate approximately $120 per month in revenue.

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