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Pre-orders went live Thursday for the Superheat H1C, which the Jersey City, N.J. company describes as the world's first water heater built to mine Bitcoin while heating domestic water.
The appliance carries a CES Award and is positioned to convert what the company calls one of the home's biggest monthly expenses into a source of $BTC return.
No unit pricing or delivery schedule appeared in the announcement. The product in focus Electric water heaters have done exactly one thing for more than a century: convert electricity into heat for domestic use.
Superheat's premise is that the same energy draw can run Bitcoin mining in parallel, recapturing computation heat as hot water rather than letting it dissipate as waste.
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