2013-03-25 Mining Bitcoins On A Nintendo

[gweedo]

His friends know [gbg] as an aficionado of just about anything with a 6502 processor in it. He’s also interested in bitcoins. A while back, a friend asked if it would be possible to mine bitcoins with an old Nintendo Entertainment System. While this suggestion was made in jest, it’s not one of those ideas anyone can let go of easily. Yes, it is possible to mine bitcoins with an NES, and [gbg] is here to show us how.

http://hackaday.com/2013/03/25/mining-bitcoins-on-a-nintendo/

[paraipan]

Awesome, mining bitcoins with a NES for shits and giggles

Vid here: http://retrominer.com

[BTC Books]

Amazing.  It looks like he's getting about 0.1-0.2 Hash/sec. 

Maybe this thread should be moved to mining? 

[Roger_Murdock]

Amazing.  It looks like he's getting about 0.1-0.2 Hash/sec. 

Newb. My SNES gets like 5 times that, uses less power, and I never have to blow in the Bitcoin cartridge to get it to work.

[BTC Books]

Amazing.  It looks like he's getting about 0.1-0.2 Hash/sec. 

Newb. My SNES gets like 5 times that, uses less power, and I never have to blow in the Bitcoin cartridge to get it to work.

Damn!  Where do I get me one of those?

[salfter]

Somebody posted this to comp.sys.apple2, which is where I heard about it.  It might be fun to try getting something like this running on one of my Apple IIs, even if it's only for sh*ts and grins.  At least they can be networked, and there wouldn't be as many hoops to jump through to get your own code running on it.

So many things to do, and not nearly enough time for them all...