Electric car owner says that his chopped Tesla Model 3 has reduced up to $ 800 per month mining ether-mining bitcoin messages

Electric car owner says that his chopped Tesla Model 3 has reduced up to $ 800 per month mining ether-mining bitcoin messages

, according to Siraj Raval, the owner of Tesla Model 3 from 2018, he attacked up to $ 800 per month with his chopped electric car. Similarly, Chris Allessi, the owner of a Tesla Model S, connected a Bitmain Antminer S9 to the electrical system of his car to mines Bitcoin, and he also broken down Monero with the internal computer of the car.

Tesla owner mining Bitcoin, Ethereum and Monero

This week two Tesla owners how they manipulated their cars mines. According to Siraj Raval, he connected graphics processors (GPUS) to his Tesla Model 3 from 2018 to reduce crypto-assets with his car. While the modification of the Tesla system expires its guarantee, Raval emphasized that "it is worth it" and claims to have taken $ 800 in Ethereum every month ( ETH ) During the ether prices of the last year.

The electric car dealer from Wisconsin, Chris Allessi, did the same in 2018. Allessi has been working on such ideas for a long time and operates a YouTube channel called " K-Man Auto " work on customer-specific electric vehicles. "I like electricity. I like zapping things, building things. They give me an electric motor, I'll give you a finished product," Allessi told CNBC on January 8th

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Allessi claims that he used an inverter and a Bitmain Antminer S9 and bound them directly to his Tesla Model S battery to mines Bitcoin ( btc ). In addition, Allessi also reports that he uses Teslas internal firmware on board to use crypto-assets such as Monero ( xmr ). "It wasn't a big deal," said Allessi during his interview. "I could do the mining program in the browser," he remarked.

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raval also hacked his internal internal company of Tesla Model 3 to dismantle crypto, and he found that the process was the most profitable method in addition to using GPUs. Allessi and Raval are not the only ones who thought of mine digital assets with an electric vehicle. Last June, the electric vehicle company Dayymak revealed plans an electric car called spiritus which is able to minel.

Last year in January the publication PC Gamer Byrnes BMW i8 Ethereum could dismantle ( eth ) with the electrical battery system. Byrnes car used a total of six NVIDIA RTX 3080 GPUs to reduce the second most important crypto-asset. According to Byrne, he chopped his hybrid-electric BMW i8 with crypto miners "just to annoy gamers".

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Jamie Redman

Jamie Redman is News Lead at Bitcoin.com News and a Finanztech journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a passion for Bitcoin, open source code and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written more than 5,000 articles for Bitcoin.com news about the disruptive protocols that arise today.


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