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Is there anyway to mine using consoles?

Yes you can, but you won't get anything out of it, it is designed to let you play games not mine.

If you want money better sell them instead of mining...

That's a better option

In theory you could mine with almost everything. Every electronic device has some potential if is powerful enough... But please you would be better selling your consoles rather than trying to mine with them. They are not build for it.

Does anyone have a picture of this? I am curious seeing an Xbox mine bitcoins xD

I heard that someone mined with like hundred of Playstations 3. Playstation has very powerful cell processor in it. If moded right it can be really cost effective, especially now. But well, ASICs are still better options if you want to hardware mining. Or invest in cloud mining. Your choice.

Even if you got power for free the fat you burn pushing the power button will cost more than what you will make in a year.

Not with consoles. Not with CPU. Not with GPU. Only ASIC's are worth it and there will be a time when they wont be either.

lol yeah..it just sounds funny when someone says mine with something otherthan the ASIC's..! pretty much the only real deal..others r prettymuch useless...with the level of difficulty there is..these days!

Hey, you can mine on a NES.

http://retrominer.com

Anything is possible.  ;D

Now we just need a game that mines in the background.

That would shorten the life of wii or xbox by a lot. Need some water cooling on it...

If you're really interested, what you would do is flash Linux for Xbox/Wii onto your console and download a miner.

Here's some further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_Linux
http://askubuntu.com/questions/233121/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-nintendo-wii

I've heard that mining it is theoretically possible on newer refrigerators   ;D ;D

You can get around 35 - 40 KH/s from a PS3 mining scrypt but you need to have Linux installed to be able to use the mining software. I'm not entirely sure if it is still somehow possible to install Linux these days, I know Sony removed that feature a while back. You can also mine on your android device but you'll get next to nothing. You should maybe look at investing in a small hardware miner like the Gridseed or Blizzard/Fury, they only cost around $25 and you'll get better hashrates.

You can probably mine with almost anything that has a processor of some sort but you don't want to do that ;D Needs to be profitable or you will lose more money on electricity, better to sell your old consoles and buy bitcoins ;)

Why would you want to? Asic is developed for mining and the Xbox and the Wii for gaming.  ;D

It's like trying to mine with a old cellphone, before smart phones.

NO !

Eventhough game console has a high spec doesn't mean it used for mining.

But If console can be used for mining, I'm sure the price will be more expensive

GPU is designed specifically to calculate floating point. Game consoles happen to fit in the same category.

They are not designed for that. Thats why it makes no sense to mine nowadays and you have to develop some chip etc to pass the security just for your small profit

I think the security issue will be the major problem in trying to use an XBox or a wii for mining, and why would you want to destroy it for mining :) .

The modifications, will probably destroy its use as a gaming console.

Dont use your xbox man, mining is an asic based game, you just have to figure out the best way to play It.

Riddle: if I mine 2.0btc in 30 days with only 1x 1500watt miner, how am I doing it?

what about this???
http://img2.mlstatic.com/s_MLV_v_O_f_4683477933_072013.jpg

or other with solar power :p

No way you can mine with calculator...

There must be connection with internet.. and my post from first page was not a joke.. New refrigerators - in theory of course - can mining..

Oh the possiblities with this...

Xbox:

PRESS A AND B RAPIDLY TO MINE! ABABABA

And on wii you could swing the console up and down to mine bitcoins!

You never know, Microsoft recently officially accepted Bitcoin as a method of payment, maybe next they will incorporate miners in xbox'ses.

Can happen.. why not..

https://commerce.microsoft.com/PaymentHub/Help/Right?helppagename=CSV_BitcoinHowTo.htm

NO, well I'm sure there is but it would be a joke to ROI ^^
Someday maybe but not now (best you can do is some button mashing)

You're mining LTC with a Titan and exchanging the proceeds for BTC?

Maybe you can mine btc with wii or xbox but i am pretty sure that you will get nothing from it .

Now that Microsoft accepted BTC as a payment method, it might also lead to some developments on the console side.

I'd like to see, a Xbox mining coins, whilst it's idle and then depositing this, as credit, back in to the internet, for the user to benefit from, when he/she plays.  ;D

Given this would cost the user substantially more in electricity than they'd see in bitcoin, I doubt they'd consider it much of a "benefit".

In the past.

no i am mining 42coin

pool or solo?

xbox uses ATI GPU, so in principle it should be able to mine GPU only coins profitably. How easy it is in practice or is it even worth burning up the box for remains to be seen, xbox suffers from poor ventilation issues.

Wow nice!

I don't know to much about mining stuff.. can you tell how much did you spend for that miners?

what about a DS / DSI?

Well, if you can mine with a NES, its possible to mine with anything past that.. wow, retrominer project is amazing.

Consoles generally have weaker GPUs compared to normal desktop computers. Yes, you can mine using it but buying an ASIC would be more practical than shortening the lifespan of your console with little to no returns after deducting electrical fees.

you can mine with everything that has gpu or cpu, but it will not be worth it

Yes of course, this is just theoretical talking.. ok maybe some alts mining.. ;) ;D

It will be if you're mining WOW Gold ;D

it will be interesting to see if it is possible to mine with gaming console
anyone share a link to tutorial if it can be done
i will give it a try with just for knowledge since i don't think it will profitable to mine with those

its not advisable to mine btc with anything other than the newest and strongest asic  miners. mining with CPU or gpu is just a waste of resources.

The thought of mining with a wii seems so ridiculous for some reason :P
Not expecting the Wii mine games anytime soon.

It was for academic interest. Even then the particular specs may lend itself to good miners for some of the alts which uses mixed algos.
PS3's cell processor can handle a lot of floating point operations per second. It could possibly be used to mine a CPU only coin very efficiently.

Lol that'd be sick

Is someone willing to explain me a bit how does this work (mining). I have heard much about mining but don't know from where to take enough information.

The only way I can think of for mining on xbox or wii to be worth while is to have a coin that is exclusive only for wii or xbox, then it has a good potential.

But the chances of someone coming out a way to exploit it is too high.