What is the HashTub immersion heater?

Short answer

The HashTub is a sealed immersion heating system from Hashrate House with a bitcoin miner already installed. The miner runs submerged in dielectric fluid, and its roughly 4 kW of heat moves through a heat exchanger into a hot tub or a home's heating. It comes built into a Snorkel cedar hot tub, as a retrofit kit for a tub you already own, or set up for home heating.

Inside the enclosure, the miner sits fully submerged in dielectric fluid, so it needs no fans. An integrated pump circulates the warm fluid to a heat exchanger, which passes the heat into your water: the hot tub, or a home's hot water, radiant floors, or furnace coil.

SpecHashTub
Miner (pre-installed)Pleb, 24 J/TH ($3,895) or Pro, 17.5 J/TH ($4,395)
Heat output~4 kW
Noise~34 dB, no fans
Enclosure (H × W × L)20.6" × 10.3" × 19.5"
Dielectric fluid~13 gal (50 L), supplied
Hot tub heat exchangerCupronickel tube-and-shell, tub setpoint up to 104°F
Home heating heat exchangerBrazed plate, outlet up to 140°F
RecognitionHeatpunk Innovation Award 2026

Three ways to use it

  • HashTub by Snorkel: a handcrafted cedar tub with the miner built into its equipment box, configured and sold by Snorkel. One 60A, 240V GFCI spa circuit runs the whole tub.
  • Retrofit kit: replaces the heater in an acrylic or similar hot tub. The tub's control board turns the miner on when it calls for heat; it's a 25A, 240V load, and the heat exchanger is cut into the spa's PVC loop.
  • Home heating: the same tank as a compact bitcoin boiler for hot water, radiant floors, or a furnace coil, on a dedicated 30A, 240V circuit.