This blog, 'What Do You Want To Do?', is a recognition by my wife and I that life is far too short not be doing exactly what we love to do.
With that ethos in mind, we quit our jobs over a year ago and have been traveling with a focus on learning as much as we can about sustainable living, farming and design and a valuable set of guidelines called The Permaculture Principles. Along the way I became interested in crypto currencies . This is my attempt at guiding myself and others through the world of crypto investing using proven sustainable design principles principles. Read my brief introduction of Permaculture, it's varied definitions and a run through of the principles here
With that said, lets keep going.
Permaculture Principle #6 - Produce No Waste
What does it mean to produce no waste?
Sounds like a tall order. One way to look at it is to attempt to recognize that waste is just an unused resource waiting to be integrated into another design.
Some simple examples from a living perspective might look like using waste water to irrigate crops that can handle the filtration process.
When composting food scraps into biologically rich soil to use to grow more food, one can pretty clearly get the idea that the world recognized recycling sign was indeed brilliantly designed. Unused outputs flowing into new systems producing new outputs.
We've surely heard by now the grumblings going on ...
from the fact that mining cryptocurrency takes up a whole heap of energy, and with the looming threats from global warming and a generally more eco minded (but perhaps less so eco active) world population, these grumblings should be taken seriously when considering mass adaptation of crypto in the future.
I touched on some examples in one of my previous posts of crypto mining being used to heat cold climate buildings as well being housed in naturally cool places to save on cooling costs. Lately these days I've been hearing about extreme cold temperatures back home around so I took to exploring ways the average person can realistically used crypto mining to heat their homes and the results are very much worth sharing in more detail.
Starting off, one should understand that there are basically two kinds of hardware that perform crypto currency mining. Both are essentially computer graphics cards. There is a kind specifically made to mine certain crypto currency's like bitcoin and other top coins and they are called ASIC's. They are definitely an investment into specifically mining crypto but they do that one thing and do it well.
The other way to mine crypto is through a GPU which most computers already have anyways. This involves devoting a portion of your computers calculating power towards mining. This is less energy efficient but allows for the computers to be more multifunctional.
Either way one chooses to do this, the waste byproduct that we are dealing with here is heat. On this map of just Europe alone we can see that there are millions of people out there who cannot afford to adequately heat their homes.. Now, here are a few examples of people using that heat to not only heat their homes, but are actually generating a profit from the money saved on tradition heating and their profits from crypto mining.
Theses guys built a tiny home heated by 2 ASIC's and turns a profit monthly - and in Siberia!.
Here we have a guy who hasn't paid for heat in 3 years.
And IBM Switzerland uses their bitcoin mining to heat a swimming pool.
Now, I'm not saying this is for everybody and is easy to implement on mass right away.
But, these innovations and designs of applying the Permaculture principle of 'Produce No Waste' to reusing a by product of mining crypto paints a promising future for ways that crypto can fit into our energy conservation minded consciousness.
If anybody else out there has more ideas on how to produce no waste in the world of crypto investing please share and talk about them here.
hami -
This is an #original-work on #steemit about #permaculture and #cryptocurrency and uses all original #photography and I've no ideas about the #steemitphotochallenge but would like to know more.
Big love to the OG Butt himself for keeping me keen on steem 
