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Let them fight: Airbnb host adds ‘no crypto mining’ rule after tenant installs 10 rigs

protos.com Airbnb host adds ‘no crypto mining’ rule after tenant installs 10 rigs

Airbnb owner Ashley said the guest ran up a $1,500 electricity bill and also installed an electric vehicle charging point.

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$100k in 3wks with 10 rigs using standard power outlets at an AirBnB?

I'm dubious.

I totally believe they did this, but I question profitability. The power use alone would be much higher than $1500.

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- oh yeah. no way are you going to make any appreciable money here.
  
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  lol, i'm surprised to see you propagating "turn $1.5k into $100k in just three weeks" bitcoin fanfic/advocacy like this 😂
  
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- A typical house may have a 200amp service. That would equate to about ~~2400~~ 24000 watts at typical 120v (the voltage consumer computers use).
  
  What's the math on wattage-to-bitcoin (assuming ideal and average system capabilities)?
  
  I don't know enough to know where to start.
  
  Edit: I dropped a zero on the watts
  
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  "dogshit (with a side extremely-maybe lucky once)"?
  
  you can only fit so much computation on some amount of power, and that's also highly influenced by type/execution of the computation involved
  
  the "extremely-maybe": I'm extremely not going to bother even attempting to calculate the present statistical likelihood of being block reward winner (I can, and will, do better things with my time), but ito total computation possible from rando airbnb-miner vs structural-miner configuration it's just super fucking unlikely
  
  I don’t know enough to know where to start.
  
  easy: skip even trying. you, too, have better things to do with your time
  
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  I may be behind on the times, but I'm pretty sure an expensive 200ish terahash setup will consume ~3500W.
  
  To make $100k in 3wks you'd need to be doing like 40,000 terahash (ignoring electric costs). Probably 80,000+ accounting for electricity?
  
  Someone please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
  
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  Homes in North America are actually split phase 240v so it would actually be 240v * 200 or 48,000w. Not that I'm here to say you're wrong for your primary point, but the incoming supply is a 200amp fuse per leg (120v to neutral, 240. Leg to leg), with any imbalance returning though the neutral line.
  
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  200 amps x 120 volts is actually 24kW.
  
  But that's still not enough to mine any appreciable amount of crypto in that time period.
  
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The reminds me I need to ask the Airbnb I'm going to if I can charge my car at their place.

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- Very thoughtful to ask, but they probably wouldn't even notice that on the electric bill. It's about the same usage as running an electric space heater.
  
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  True, I just remembered this story. https://abcnews.go.com/Business/ga-man-arrested-charging-electric-car-local-middle/story?id=21098590
  
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- On that note, saw they were warning people going on vacation that there are now scams that mega overcharge you to charge your car. So for anybody with an electric car on vacation, do be aware of that.
  
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The real move is to do this with an “illegal” airbnb sublet, that way you can add landlords to the fight.

Also you should start an extermination company and cook meth as well, like in breaking bad, so you can also have meth cartels in the mix.

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Rare Airbnb W

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Hahaha, I love seeing AirBnB getting owned like this. Too bad it was the homeowner who got screwed, and not AirBnB.

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Fellow programmers, please stop writing crap like this.

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