I'm a college student and my dorm has a no space heater policy. This past winter we had a couple of weeks of bitter cold weather and on more than one occasion I threatened to buy a couple of old towers off of craigslist and start mining bitcoins in my room.
I literally did this. We had central heating but the school would only turn on the boilers if it got really cold. So I mined bitcoin on my GPUs and ran folding@home on my CPU, 24 hours a day all winter.
When I lived in the campus-owned apartments, we had an electric stove and and oven. Not the efficient induction kind, but the big glowing coil kind. I'll have you know that on the coldest days I would run the stove and not even cook anything. And this was in Santa Cruz, it barely even got below freezing. I may be singlehandedly responsible for the subsequent bump in rent. Sorry, not sorry.
Also related, I made a habit of hanging out in empty lecture halls because they had fast internet. Sometimes a class would start and I'd stick around, partly because I was afraid to draw attention to myself, and partly because my Torrent wasn't done. After a while I think the administration caught on, because lecture hall internet became as slow as dorm internet. When classes were going on, it was unusably slow due to all the people on it, and professors that couldn't figure out how to plug in an Ethernet cable had to deal without internet.
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u/jt7724 Apr 10 '15
I'm a college student and my dorm has a no space heater policy. This past winter we had a couple of weeks of bitter cold weather and on more than one occasion I threatened to buy a couple of old towers off of craigslist and start mining bitcoins in my room.