Crypto millionaire uses computers mining Bitcoin to heat the swimming pool of his $45M mansion

This crypto millionaire figured out a way to mine Bitcoin while also heating up his swimming pool in his mansion in Switzerland.

His plan is so clever that he basically gets to heat the pool for free, and actually make a bit of profit in the process.

But there’s a reason why his plan may not last forever.

Some people made a fortune by pure accident

Bitcoin is interesting for several reasons, chief among which is the fact it made a lot of people extremely rich pretty much by pure accident.

When it was ‘launched’ – so to speak – Bitcoin was a geeky pastime for tech nerds.

It was just a fun thing to do for people who simply enjoyed anything computer-related.

Mining – so basically ‘creating’ new BTC using computing power – was just a hobby.

It was cheap, and back then it could be done with normal, everyday laptops and PCs.

That is definitely not the case anymore.

Today, you need some serious computing power and resources to mine Bitcoin.

Which actually leads us to the main point here.

Because this crypto millionaire did something with Bitcoin no one had ever even thought of.

This Bitcoin millionaire probably knows something we don’t

So the thing about ‘what if we used 100 percent of our brain power’ is actually a myth.

It’s a great idea for a movie or a TV show, but there are several studies that confirm beyond reasonably doubt that we generally use all of our available brainpower – not just 10 percent of it – all of the time, and not just sometimes.

However, crypto millionaire Tobias Reichmuth is clearly using 101 percent of it.

Reichmuth owns Villa Volt, an ultra-luxury, five-story mountain estate in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Instead of wasting the massive thermal energy generated by intensive computing, the estate integrates hidden Bitcoin-mining rigs directly into its heating infrastructure.

Bilanz reports that the miners simultaneously mine cryptocurrency and warm the home’s 33-foot indoor swimming pool and floors during freezing Alpine winters.

During its first month, the setup generated roughly $36 worth of Bitcoin while keeping the private pool comfortably heated.

Beyond the crypto heaters, the self-sustaining property features high-performance solar facade modules, 10 deep geothermal boreholes, and a cryotherapy chamber whose residual energy is recycled back into the geothermal loop.

You can actually rent this house in Switzerland, by the way.

It ‘only’ costs $80,000 for a seven-night stay.

Ouch.

Bitcoin’s mining rate will keep going down

Everything about Bitcoin is basically ‘baked into’ the original plan.

Instead of speeding up, the rate at which new Bitcoin is minted gets cut in half roughly every four years.

That’s why well over 90 percent of all BTC that will ever be created is already in circulation, but it’ll still take over 100 years to get to 100 percent.

It means that mining Bitcoin will become harder, and more expensive.

And it also means that, hopefully (or not, depending on where you stand on this), BTC may go up in value pretty much in perpetuity.