Nicolas Drouin

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Nicolas Drouin

Nicolas Drouin

@BTC_Grid

Founder of Constellation Heating. Dedicated to making mining more accessible. Bitcoin to move humanity forward, mining to reinvent the energy grid.

Montréal, Québec Katılım Ekim 2010
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Nicolas Drouin
Nicolas Drouin@BTC_Grid·
I'm happy to present you the latest update for the Constellation Heating 210TH/s #Bitcoin pool heater. Most of the suppliers are secured for production, control software is still in the debugging phase, but it's coming along! The final design & specs will be announced soon. Pre-sale with beta Bitcoiners is also coming soon, DM are open if you're interested. The mission is to decentralize the network even further and lower the entry barrier to #Bitcoin mining. #ConstellationHeating #GridHeating
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Nicolas Drouin@BTC_Grid·
Constellation Heaters will get a serious update soon! First generation heaters will all get a remote firmware update. We are currently planning the deployment phase to our existing customers. New firmware means more stability, more mining uptime and more efficient monitoring. This is the last step required before the totally new control software and mobile app are launched. Exciting times for Constellation!
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Nicolas Drouin@BTC_Grid·
@tylerpirtz you’re right to correct me, I meant they were very similar accounting and regulatory wise.
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@tylerpirtz@tylerpirtz·
I wouldn't say that the Cooperatives are exactly the same, many of the members don't even realize that they are owners of the utility. As member owners they have certain rights that give them the ability to do things as long as the majority of the members agree. I think of them as the basis for Satoshi's vision for Bitcoin in a lot of ways. electric.coop/seven-cooperat…
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Nicolas Drouin
Nicolas Drouin@BTC_Grid·
Why Bitcoin will make cost of electricity go DOWN over time? First, we need to understand how electric utilities generate profits. Because they have monopoly on electricity distribution, utilities are highly regulated entities. Every utility reports to a PUC (public utility commission) or PSC (public service commission). Different names, same concept. A PUC is a semi-governmental entity that should act neutral amongst the utility and the rate payer (you read that right, you are called a rate payer in their world). Here’s the interesting part 👉 A UTILITY’S NET PROFIT IS SET IN ADVANCE BY THE PUC! Again, you read that right. A utility is authorized by the PUC to generate a predetermined Net Income. No other business on earth works that way. A typical P&L is “top down”, meaning you generate sales, substract COGS, SG&A, interest cost and depreciation to get to Net Income. A Utility’s P&L works the other way around or “bottom up”. You start with Net Profit, and you add up P&L elements to work your way up and determine the amount of Sales you need to generate so that at the end of the year the ALLOWED Net Profit is achieved. We have only scratched the surface, this is not a documentary so I’ll end it here for now. Next post I’ll write about HOW NET INCOME IS FIXED BY THE REGULATOR. Follow me if you want to know more about how Bitcoin can solve our energy problems.
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Nicolas Drouin@BTC_Grid·
Totally! COOP & munis work exactly the same way, with one caveat. Usually these are the less profitable utilities due to low population density. Accounting wise they work just as Investor Owned Utilities (IOU). Being less profitable, smaller & more agile (not publicly traded), they are prime candidates for Bitcoin!
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@tylerpirtz@tylerpirtz·
How about member owned nonprofit cooperatives? They are democratically controlled and I think if we could get 1 Small Distribution Cooperative to start mining bitcoin as a tool to help balance their own demand, the rest would soon follow. Just think about how much demand for bitcoin that would create! Every member would be looking for a higher bitcoin price because that would make their electricity cheaper. This makes the ones heating their homes with bitcoin more profitable. Like a decentralized subsidy system.
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Joe Nakamoto ⚡️
Joe Nakamoto ⚡️@JoeNakamoto·
Bitcoiners in Canada 🍁 🇨🇦 can you help me out with this comment?
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Toine@TronMonGone·
Hey heatpunks and aspiring heatpunks, I'm happy to announce the launch of my 3D printed components store: 256heat.com/collections/3d… I've has many requests for components from my hashrate heating products/systems. My business was not set-up as a parts supplier so I had to decline many of these potential sales and, even worse, had to pass on helping a fellow bitcoiner/miner/heatpunk. I now offer every part I use in my designs to the public. Turn your S19 or S21 series Antminer into a quiet heater that filters the air while it heats your home - and pays you in bitcoin.
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Nicolas Drouin@BTC_Grid·
@MattCutler21 couldn’t be more right. Integrating Bitcoin into homes through heating is the Trojan horse to wider adoption and better regulation. With such a tangible use case, it forces skeptics and regulators to think twice. BUT WAIT… My thesis goes beyond that. In the long run, hashrate heating will LOWER THE ELECTRICITY COST for everyone living in a jurisdiction where Bitcoin’s integration with the grid is made possible. How regulator can be opposed to that proposition? Follow me if you want to step into this rabbit hole.
Matt Cutler@MattCutler21

This house and hot tub are heated by bitcoin miners. Electricity turned into heat AND money. It's a no brainer, but what few realize is it's also the ultimate trojan horse to secure bitcoin's future 💡 Let me explain. Mining is a cutthroat industry with slim margins and home mining is no different. In most cases, it makes no economical sense to mine at home. But it does make sense to heat your home, and bitcoin miners are great heaters 🔥 It's infrastructure. It's utility. And once it's in your home, hashrate is being decentralized. When hundreds of millions of homes & businesses around the world are using hashrate heating Then the network becomes much more secure and decentralized. And any govt intervention (look up Executive Order 6102) becomes a lot more difficult to pull off. Try outlawing bitcoin and telling people they can't heat their homes. See how that goes. Try taking our hot tubs. You can't take our hot tubs! These dual-purpose mining and heating use cases are the Trojan horse that makes Bitcoin even more unstoppable. Thoughts?

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Nicolas Drouin@BTC_Grid·
Heatpunk movement is going through tough times right now with hash price being so low. I don’t care about the fud. Here at the 2026 heatpunk summit we’re having a blast. No better place to have close access to manufacturers, contractors, investors and innovators. Thanks @SpaceDenver for putting up such a great event 🔥
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Interesting STEM
Interesting STEM@InterestingSTEM·
This is the 1% question. It’s tough! But then only 1% of people can get this in 30 seconds. CAN YOU?
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Nicolas Drouin@BTC_Grid·
@BTCLobbyist @0xDigit23 💯 most of our customers have very cheap rates or plenty of solar. It’s a very good way to DCA by having real life application.
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BitcoinPME
BitcoinPME@BitcoinPME·
@0xDigit23 @BTC_Grid You can, but still need to pay the electricity bill if you don’t want to sell the bitcoin. Heating the exterior is not cheap.
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Digit@0xDigit23·
@BTC_Grid 👀 I'm going to look into this when it's time to redo my driveway and front steps! Really cool stuff
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Digit@0xDigit23·
@BTC_Grid When will us Montrealers be able to heat our driveway while mining? Just finished shoveling my driveway and didn't get any BTC for it!
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Tyler Stevens ⚡️🔥
Tyler Stevens ⚡️🔥@tylerkstevens·
Happy New Year Heatpunks! Just put together a full walkthrough tutorial for our Hashrate Heating savings calculators from @Exergy_LLC Our 2026 roadmap is epic. Stay tuned for hashrate solar calculators and full fledged ROI estimates, unique to your heating load profile.
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Nicolas Drouin@BTC_Grid·
Enjoying the outdoors before winter finally comes and this immersion oil tote turns into molasses. For all Canadian Bitcoiners doing diy immersion projects, contact us if you need oil!
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Nicolas Drouin@BTC_Grid·
@SoloSatoshi Yep, and we’re working hard to push even further. Heat reuse was our first target, now we are connecting all our heaters to the grid and provide grid balancing services to get more money in our customers wallet
Nicolas Drouin@BTC_Grid

Heating 6000sqft of radiant floors with bitcoin is possible! Thanks to @idahoheatair who had an open mind & was willing to innovate by integrating Constellation’s heater into their design. This is a unique and quite sophisticated system, you won’t find anything like this. ✅1500sqft of snow melting slab ✅ 6000sqft of radiant flooring ✅ 2 pools heated by 25kW of Bitcoin mining. ✅fully automated to capture Bitcoin’s heat all year long 💰Customer GETTING PAID all year long to heat is house, because price of power here is lower than 0,13$/kWh. Here’s a short video explaining how the heater dedicated to indoor radiant floors works.

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Nicolas Drouin@BTC_Grid·
@EloVeut C’est pendant ces périodes d’accalmie que les vrais progrès se font, dans l’ombre. Bitcoin va rester, pour le reste ça va tout finir a zéro. Content de voir que tu t’y intéresses.
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EloVeutSavoir@EloVeut·
La crypto, c'est mort à jamais ou ça va prospérer encore, selon vous?
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