2021/03/29

YouTuber’s Game Boy Mining Rig Will Mine One Bitcoin in Several Quadrillion Years

“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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