YouTuber (Stacksmashing) estimates that it will take millions of billions of years to mine a bitcoin.
A computer security researcher managed to make Nintendo's first major handheld console suitable for mining cryptocurrencies.
According to a recent YouTube video, user Stacksmashing uses Nintendo Game Boy hardware first released in 1989 as a starting point for Bitcoin (BTC) mining.
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Since the game console has no built-in wireless capabilities (and largely before the Internet era), Stacksmashing stated that he uses a Raspberry Pi microcontroller board to connect to the game console's link cable port and USB flash memory card to establish a connection to the BTC. Node running from the computer.
My goal is to use the original, unmodified Game Boy, Stacksmashing said.
I want to put a cartridge in it and start mining.
Stacksmashing wrote his own mining code for the Game Boy's read-only memory, embedded mining software (modified for game consoles) and ran the BTC node on the computer.
The result is that the random number on the console's green screen has increased, indicating that the computer is trying to mine BTC.
The hash rate is excellent, about 0.8 hashes per second.
For some time, many cryptocurrency enthusiasts have been looking to gaming consoles to find a way to mine BTC or other cryptocurrencies, but generally the system is not designed or sold for miners.
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Earlier this month, a Chinese software developer appeared to claim to have used the PlayStation 5 console to mine ether (ETH), thus misleading the entire cryptocurrency field.
Last year, early developer Jugable exposed rumors that one of its games could be used to hijack Nintendo Switch to mine BTC.
Stacksmashing's attempt to use 8-bit game consoles to mine cryptocurrencies may be outside the experience, but he said on Twitter that it is not yet complete.
The computer security researcher claims to use Nintendo Super Game Boy an adapter released in 1994, that allows you to play the original Game Boy games on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, to mine BTC in much the same way.