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● 29/03/2021
“Only off by a factor of roughly 125 trillion.”
– YouTuber stacksmashing, on how his Game Boy-powered Bitcoin mining rig compares to the competition. Whereas modern hardware mines at ~100 terahashes per second, the 1989 Nintendo handheld (controlled via a Raspberry Pi Pico) clocks in at 0.8. “It would take several quadrillion years to mine a single coin.”
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● 03/03/2021

“It turns the picture into a puzzle—an enigma in a way,” says Jean-Jacques Calbayrac, one of five Game Boy Camera enthusiasts writer Raymond Wong interviewed about the allure of taking 128 x 112-pixel photos in the Instagram age. “It’s like going back in time, back to the birth of digital photography.”

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