Undoubtedly, despite the fact that it seems that this week all cryptocurrencies are losing value practically daily, despite the fact that there is a time when it seems that the market is recovering, the truth is that there are still many people who can see in them a good bonus, you just have to think that today and despite the aforementioned drops, Bitcoin continues to trade above $ 11.000.
Due to this, it is not surprising that more and more people dare to take the step and create their own teams with which to mine cryptocurrencies and get, or at least that is what is thought, get extra money. Unfortunately, it is also very true that the very high price of the necessary hardware does not work for a simple computer that you have at home, and the high electrical consumption is a sufficient barrier to entry so that many, when making numbers, finally decide that it is not interesting.
A Tesla Model S owner decides to hack his vehicle to mine cryptocurrencies
Because of this I still have a hard time believing that someone might be able to go further, so much so as to decide that the best and most interesting, literally and as you can see in the images distributed by this same post, was literally hack your own Tesla Model S to start mining cryptocurrencies. The idea is very simple, use the batteries in your vehicle so you do not have to pay for the high electricity consumption of the necessary equipment.
At this point there is, especially if you are thinking that when the car battery wears out, you have to charge it which, in the end, means an even greater expense, you have to take a detail into account and it is none other than, in the United States As in other parts of the world, owners of a Tesla Model S can recharge your vehicle batteries for free in Superchargers that Elon Musk's company have spread across the country.
To mine cryptocurrencies you need a team with enormous hardware power
In case you are thinking of mining cryptocurrencies and the issue of electricity consumption or the powerful hardware required has left you a bit perplexed, tell you in broad strokes that basically the issue of mining this type of virtual currency is as simple as that the user who provides more power the more takes away, as simple as that, so to get bigger benefits you need to bet very hard.
With this in mind, it will surely be much easier for you to understand why, today, it is necessary to assemble simply amazing equipment in terms of its ability to process data, amazing to call it in some way, since a very basic equipment supposes equipping it from specialty chips and a good handful of powerful graphics cards that they must work in parallel and that each of them can cost thousands of euros.
To the outlay necessary to assemble this kind of equipment must be added the amount necessary so that they can be running 24 hours a day. Due to this it is not surprising, as in the specific case of this user who owns a Tesla Model S, that some may come to think that, if you do not pay for the energy consumption derived from having a computer of these characteristics connected to the network, the benefits are greatly increased.
Although it may be interesting as an experiment, it is not profitable to use a Tesla Model S to mine virtual currencies
As it could not be otherwise, the community and especially the cryptocurrency mining specialists, taking into account the published photographs, have proposed to know if really using a Tesla Model S to mine cryptocurrencies is interesting. In the photos you can see the vehicle and four motherboards connected to the same battery. Each board has no less than four graphics cards. On the other hand, it must be taken into account that no ASIC chips are visible to the naked eye, the same ones that are used to mine Bitcoins, so the system will probably mine another type of virtual currency such as Ethereum.
With all this in mind, according to experts' calculations, the electricity consumption of mining 24 hours is equivalent to driving it for 280 kilometers. Taking into account that you must have the equipment running 24 hours and that the Ethererum price, at the time the photos were published was at $ 450, the user could earn a few $ 675 per month, very similar benefits to those of acquiring a Tesla Model S in leasing format in the United States. The losses is that you literally will not be able to drive the car for a single minute since you would have to have the team working 24 hours a day.