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Nintendo Game Boy Modded to Mine Bitcoin

Waiting for that Tesla put to use for mining article now
 
I was reading on another site that the Gameboy is 125,000,000,000,000X slower than a powerful ASIC miner.
 
Are you kiddin me? PCs, mobile phones (andoid devices? tablets?), websites, gameboy...what's next? Symbian OS phones? MP3 players?
It's no more serious than cpumining. It's a "because I can" sort of thing.

You can mine bitcoin with pen and paper if so inclined. You'll never make a cent with it (nor with this gameboy) but you can.

Either you join a pool or you're bust.
You won't even calculate a single pool share.
 
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tamagotchi and furby and of course the trapper keeper and fidget spinners, alllll farming that sweet sweet crypto
I hope the furby speaks the hash as it is calculated.
 
The retarded thing about all is the difficulty get's artificially increased with the increasing of total compute power so everybody is just fighting for percentile of the crypto pie so in reality it's all waste of resources really.
 
That might be close to the reality of it unless the software running on the GB has found a shortcut...
That's an optimistic take.

The retarded thing about all is the difficulty get's artificially increased with the increasing of total compute power so everybody is just fighting for percentile of the crypto pie so in reality it's all waste of resources really.
Crypto is basically tragedy of the commons in action.

It doesn't have to be so energy consuming and inefficient, but mankind had ensured it must be so.
 
Next up is an actual powerdrill modded to mine crypto XD
I just got a soldering iron which has a 108MHz RISC-V CPU, several times the memory of a Game Boy and runs a far more advanced, not to mention open source, OS. Running a miner on it would be a rather trivial task. There are microwave cookers and fridges running full-blown Linux distros nowadays and botnets mining crypto coins on people's appliances are actually nothing new.
 
Are you kiddin me? PCs, mobile phones (andoid devices? tablets?), websites, gameboy...what's next? Symbian OS phones? MP3 players?
wont be long for xbox assuming dev mode has internet access.
 
It doesn't have to be so energy consuming and inefficient, but mankind had ensured it must be so.
Definition of a parasite.
 
Are you kiddin me? PCs, mobile phones (andoid devices? tablets?), websites, gameboy...what's next? Symbian OS phones? MP3 players?

Programming an ATM machine to mine crypto would be the peak of modern humor.
 
Definition of a parasite.
Mankind or bitcoin?

Bitcoin gives mankind a payment network. Mankind ensures bitcoin costs way too much to do so to ever be justified.
 
Parasitic payment for a parasite species
 
If a pregnancy test can run Doom, I bet it can mine Bitcoin too.
Maybe at 0.001 H/s.
 
Parasitic payment for a parasite species
I don't see bitcoin as a parasite. It's a mirror. It reflects what we are. But at least it attempts to give. Not very parasite like.
 
ppl gonna start using their car infotainment to mine
 
I don't see bitcoin as a parasite. It's a mirror. It reflects what we are. But at least it attempts to give. Not very parasite like.
See we are master parasites, we turn other things in parasites.
 
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