Chat_168 - Hashing for Heat with Tyler Stevens

Chat_168 - Hashing for Heat with Tyler Stevens

From Bitcoin Audible by Guy Swann

May 21, 2026 · 1h 54m

About this episode

Tyler Stevens discusses the potential of using Bitcoin miners for heating homes and the implications for energy decentralization.

"Our little home controller, building controller, it knows our electric rate, it knows the way that electric rate changes based on the time of day. It knows the PV flux, the solar flux from the solar panels. So it knows if there's excess power that the building's not using.It also knows our natural gas rate. It also knows the Bitcoin price and the network difficulty. This is all just in our software.And in real time, our building can choose, it can flip between heating with gas or with hashrate to save you the most money." ~ Tyler Stevens I am constantly shocked by how much of our everyday infrastructure is basically begging for a Bitcoin upgrade. Almost half of the world's energy is used for heat, and a quarter of it is just "comfort heat" to keep our homes and water warm. What if we generated all of that with bitcoin miners instead? I sat down with Tyler Stevens, a former aerospace thermal engineer who is currently helping spearhead the Hashrate Heatpunks movement. I’ve been running my own hacky miner-heater setup downstairs to survive the winter, but Tyler and the guys at the 256 Foundation are taking this to an entirely different scale. We talked about stripping away our…

People in this episode

Host: Guy Swann

Guest: Tyler Stevens

Topics covered

  • Bitcoin
  • energy
  • heating
  • decentralization
  • mining
  • open-source

Keywords

  • Bitcoin
  • heating
  • energy
  • mining
  • decentralization
  • open-source
  • ASIC chips

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: 256 Foundation, Bitmain

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