Engineers hate wasting. We are always trying to optimize the usage of the resources surrounding us.

In my research for some additional passive income, I looked into cryptocurrency trading and mining. As a result, I watched a few videos about this process and the incredible amount of heat (and noise) generated.

I never lived in a colder climate than Lima and its (very) mild winters, but I know about the difficulties of paying for services bills within the restrictions of a budget that seems to shrink every month. Therefore, looking to optimize the performance and outputs of the systems we use (like recycling used motor oil as a fuel), I put together some concepts that maybe some of you will find useful and hopefully take advantage of.

This is nothing new, nor my creation. Its effectiveness has already been verified in locations where the colder climate allows cooling equipment efficiently. Just check the links, and you will see for yourselves.

Crypto mining is merely the production of digital currency via hardware.

This production needs a permanent connection to the Internet to solve complex problems proposed by an algorithm hosted on a server. Once this process finishes, the mining equipment owner gets a reward in the form of a small amount of the mined cryptocurrency. As a side note, my (not-so-blind) trust in crypto comes from the general loss of value than fiat currency presented this last few years. Compare and see.