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Bitcoin News Verified account @BitcoinNewsCom · 1d

FOUNDRY BEGINS TESTING MAJOR BITCOIN MINING PROTOCOL UPGRADE

Foundry USA Pool has officially begun testing Stratum V2, a major upgrade to Bitcoin mining infrastructure.

The new protocol allows individual miners to construct their own block templates and select transactions, reducing reliance on centralized mining pool operators.

Stratum V2 also introduces encrypted communications, reduces bandwidth usage by up to 70%, and improves mining efficiency.

With Foundry and AntPool moving toward adoption, the upgrade could significantly decentralize control over Bitcoin transaction selection without changing the distribution of hashrate.

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Sardoche 🇫🇷 Verified account @Sardoche · 3d

Je viens d’éteindre ma chaudière à gaz pour passer sur un chauffage avec ma Clim réversible

Je maintiens du 23 degré alors qu’il fait 10° dehors pour 5kw/jour soit à peine 1€.

C’est 5-6 fois moins cher que la même chose au gaz.

Achetez vous une Clim réversible style Midea Portasplit dès maintenant, ce sera rentabilisé d’ici février/mars.

(Non sponso 😔)

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Mineshop.eu Verified account @mineshop_eu · 3d

Growing tulips. Mining Bitcoin. Putting the heat to work. 🌷⚡🇫🇮

At a 140-year-old tulip farm in Finland, one of our customers is using 16 Avalon Q miners to do more than mine Bitcoin.

They’re helping keep the flowers warm.

For a flower grower, temperature isn’t just about comfort. It determines whether a crop is ready to sell. The farmer explains that the bulbs need to be kept at around 9°C before delivery, with a growing temperature of around 17°C.

Keeping those conditions stable through a Finnish winter is expensive.

The farm reports using around 140 tonnes of wood pellets each winter. Combined with heating oil, its annual heating bill comes to approximately €45,000.

Meanwhile, the farmer receives €15 plus VAT for a bucket of 20 tulips at wholesale. There isn’t much room for wasted energy.

That’s where the miners come in.

The Avalon Q units provide supplemental heat alongside the existing heating equipment. Warmth that would otherwise need to be removed from a mining room becomes useful inside the greenhouse.

The interesting part isn’t just the hardware. It’s how the farm operates it.

According to the video, the miners switch on when Nord Pool electricity prices fall below €0.07/kWh. The farmer can check their mining status remotely through F2Pool.

This isn’t simply “plug in a miner and hope.” It’s matching electricity prices, heating demand and Bitcoin mining to the needs of a working farm.

The results reported in the video:

→ 0.14 BTC generated by the 16 miners over 10 months.
→ €4,000 saved in pellet costs during November and December.
→ A wider energy setup combining mining equipment, solar power and battery storage.

Those are this farm’s reported results—not guaranteed returns for every installation. Electricity costs, mining conditions and how much heat you can actually use all matter.

But the principle is worth paying attention to.

If you already need heat, mining revenue isn’t the only part of the calculation. The useful warmth has value too.

The farmer even uses one or two miners to keep the office warm. During winter, the greenhouse also shelters neighbours’ plants. When summer arrives, the miners move into outdoor cabinets and continue mining.

We spend a lot of time in this industry talking about hashrate and efficiency. Customer stories like this add another practical question:

Where can the heat do something useful?

For this farm, the answer is among the tulips.

A family business growing flowers for generations, finding a new way to help heat its next crop. That’s a Bitcoin mining story worth sharing. 🌷

Watch the video to hear the farmer explain the setup.

What would you heat with a Bitcoin miner?

#Bitcoin

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