[HN Gopher] Mining Bitcoin on the Game Boy [video]
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Mining Bitcoin on the Game Boy [video]
Author : faebi
Score : 126 points
Date : 2021-04-10 13:40 UTC (9 hours ago)
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| _joel wrote:
| This video is really well done, good work
| Minenash wrote:
| I think the funniest part about this, is that the pico used for
| the cable probably can do miss hashes per second
| egypturnash wrote:
| how to mine bitcoin on a gameboy
|
| 1. make an enteretaining video about trying to mine bitcoin on a
| gameboy
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| 2. include bitcoin donation link
|
| 3. wait to see if you have sufficiently amused people with absurd
| numbers of bitcoin for them to donate some
| CynicusRex wrote:
| Would've been more fitting on the Pyramid:
| https://theoffice.fandom.com/wiki/Pyramid.
| cgb223 wrote:
| Came to this video expecting a cheeky joke, left with a genuine
| understanding of how to implement a basic Bitcoin miner
|
| This is awesome!
| ibraheemdev wrote:
| [video]
| pts_ wrote:
| Global warming solved.
| ineedasername wrote:
| Great, now it's going to be impossible to get a vintage Game Boy
| on ebay for under $10,000, not to mention making AA batteries
| impossible to find at retail.
| ourmandave wrote:
| But this could spark innovations, like an adapter to put a
| 3-fan RTX 3080 graphics card on it.
|
| Or a portable snap-on expansion to power it with 8 car
| batteries.
| nayuki wrote:
| Obligatory: http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-
| pencil-and... ; http://www.righto.com/2019/07/bitcoin-mining-on-
| apollo-guida... ; http://www.righto.com/2015/05/bitcoin-mining-
| on-55-year-old-...
| gus_massa wrote:
| I'm not sure why this was downvoted, but perhaps some context
| may help.
|
| Here _nayuki_ linked a few posts made by _kens_ about mining
| Bitcoins using weird old hardware (if you classify pencil and
| paper as hardware). A Gameboy is perhaps not vintage enough for
| kens :) .
|
| Old HN discussion of these links:
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| * Pencil and Paper:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8380110 (653 points, 104
| comments) and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15950599
| (642 points, 158 comments)
|
| * Apollo computer:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20383561 (217 points, 107
| comments)
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| * IBM 1401: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9593412 (162
| points, 34 comments)
| nezza-_- wrote:
| This is my video, happy to answer any questions
| nicetryguy wrote:
| Not a question: I followed and really enjoyed your series on
| [REDACTED] as each video came out =)
| nezza-_- wrote:
| That's great, thank you! I had a ton of fun on that one.
| monokh wrote:
| Do you see any reason why the GBA couldn't perform the role of
| a hardware wallet? Secure element excluded of course.
| nezza-_- wrote:
| It could perform it, but as the other comment has outlined it
| would be very slow (and not very secure)!
| stickac wrote:
| Gameboy is really slow when compared to modern hardware. One
| ECDSA signature that takes around 100ms on Trezor (32-bit CPU
| @ 120 MHz) would take around a minute on GameBoy (8-bit CPU @
| ~4 MHz.
|
| If we're talking about GameBoy Advance (32-bit CPU @ 25 MHz)
| - this more plausible but still 5 times slower than Trezor.
| ineedasername wrote:
| I think waiting a full minute is a perfectly justifiable
| trade-off for a dystopian future that at least forces
| people to have an iconic '80's handheld strapped to their
| hip. If we're headed toward a dystopia, we can at least try
| to set the stage for a certain standard of aesthetics.
| karolist wrote:
| Offtopic but I really liked the explanation animations, which
| software do you use for that?
| nezza-_- wrote:
| Thank you! I made those in Keynote, exported as video, and
| then basically freeze-framed each slide to align it with the
| voice-over.
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