Hi everyone,
We’re the team from Superheat, and we wanted to introduce ourselves ahead of the upcoming Heatpunk Summit 2026 at the end of this month.
We are building an electric water heater, the Superheat H1 that integrates Bitcoin mining into a standard residential/commercial hot water system. We debuted our final prototype at CES 2026 last month and was very well received. We ended up with 2 CES official awards and was nominated for Best Energy Tech by CNET.
From a system design perspective, the key constraint we work around is that hot water demand is intermittent, so our units do not run 24/7, like a regular miner would. Compute is strictly coupled to heating cycles and only runs when heat is actually required. This way, we ensure that the users don’t use more electricity than they need to.
Heating water remains the primary function at all times, compute and the mining rewards it produces is a secondary layer that we call “the happy by-product”. We believe that this philosophy is the key to mass adoption, the device should be an appliance first, with Bitcoin mining as a value-add. That is also why we designed the system to be very easy to install and maintain.
We are really excited about Heatpunk Summit because it’s one of the few communities seriously engaging with these kinds of discussions, especially where theory meets real world deployment. We love the discussion on this forum around heat reuse, workload scheduling and system economics, and we are looking forward to discuss them with you in person!
Unfortunately we won’t be able to bring a prototype to the Summit this time as all of our devices are being used for real-world testing right now, but feel free to reach out to us both online and in person at the Heatpunk Summit if you’d like more information about the Superheat H1.
Best,
Joseph Ma
Co-founder | Head of Software and BD
Superheat.xyz