Nintendo game console adapted for Bitcoin mining

Security researcher under the nickname Stacksmashing adapted the first portable game console fromNintendo for Bitcoin mining.

According to him, this step was pushed by Tesla's recent announcement of the start of accepting bitcoin and the shortage of video cards in the market. Stacksmashing explained:

“Then I realized that I have a bunch of orphaned, super-performing gaming equipment. Why not use it in Bitcoin mining? "

The Nintendo Game Boy was released by 1989.The device has a 4.19 megahertz central processing unit, 8 kilobytes of video memory, and has no internet access, so Stacksmashing used a Raspberry Pi microcomputer to connect it to a bitcoin node. Stacksmashing added:

“We will also need to announce the block if wewe can still get it, but the Game Boy doesn't have Wi-Fi or anything. Fortunately, the Game Boy has a communication port that is commonly used for Pokémon exchange and other important things. My goal was to use the original, unmodified Game Boy. I wanted to insert a cartridge and start mining. "

Stacksmashing wrote their own code for mining Bitcoin on the Game Boy to display hashes on the device screen:

“The hash rate is pretty impressive - about 0.8 hashesper second. If we compare it with modern ASIC miners, which produce about 100 terahashes per second, our version is almost as fast and is only 125 trillion times behind. With this hash rate, it should take only a couple of quadrillion years to mine bitcoin. "

Stacksmashing also used the Super Game Boy released in 1994 for mining:

"Of course, when mining bitcoin on the Game Boy, there is no need to talk about profit, but I learned a lot in the process and had a lot of fun."

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