This guy modded his Nintendo Game Boy and is mining Bitcoin on it

I nonetheless bear in mind proudly owning a Nintendo Game Boy however I by no means thought I’d be writing an article explaining how somebody has modded their Game Boy and is now crypto mining Bitcoin from it. Yes, you learn that proper — this guy has modded his Game Boy and is mining Bitcoin on it for actual — examine it out:

You cannot simply flip the Nintendo Game Boy on and begin mining Bitcoin, as there is no web connection — so first, you may want the Raspberry Pi Pico which acts as a hyperlink cable to USB adapter. This is plugged right into a PC which provides the Nintendo Game Boy an web connection which is required for cryptocurrency mining, or else you would not have the ability to mine Bitcoin out of your Game Boy, in fact!

There are a number of extra steps required earlier than you will get Bitcoin mining on your Game Boy, however when it does Nintendo’s moveable recreation console is able to pumping out 0.8 hashes per second, which when in comparison with a current-gen ASIC miner which pumps out round 100 terahashes per second… the GameBoy is 125 trillion — or 125,000,000,000,000x slower than the current-gen ASIC miner.

This means it would take a single Nintendo Game Boy a number of quadrillion years to mine a single Bitcoin… completely not price it, however it’s a nerd-out fest to see Bitcoin being mined on a freaking Nintendo Game Boy.

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