I heat my home by mining crypto currencies
I wonder if we could make it even better and make smart heaters that instead of wasting calculations actually do something useful, something like folding proteins or some other computing load that doesn't require huge network load and can be easily distributed (something like SETI@home but <i>actually</i> useful).<p>In densely populated cities we could bury huge datacenters underground and use that energy for heating directly, and use excess to produce electricity.