[2015-05-31] Hackaday: The Most Powerful Bitcoin Mining Rig Yet

[bryant.coleman]

http://hackaday.com/2015/05/29/the-most-powerful-bitcoin-mining-rig-yet/

In days of yore, one could mine Bitcoin without much more than an AMD graphics card. Now, without specialized hardware it’s unlikely that you’ll make any appreciable headway in the bitcoin world. This latest project, however, goes completely in the other direction: [Ken] programmed a 55-year-old IBM mainframe to mine Bitcoin. Note that this is technically the most powerful rig ever made… if you consider the power usage per hash.

Just hoping that as the mining cost decreases, more and more people will be encouraged to mine Bitcoins. 

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[unamis76]

Was not expecting this news with that title Nice way to put it, it's indeed the most powerful rig, and I bet the guy had fun doing it!

[Kprawn]

What is the point of this? To show that in theory it would be possible to mine Bitcoin with outdated "punch card" technology?

Ok, I think it's time to dust off the old ZX Spectrum 48k and show that I will NEVER be able to mine a single block.... BUT in theory.. it would be possible.

Click BAIT post successfull.  ....Let's jump back into the future.

[goxed]

Let me build some Lego mindstorm robots and give them each an abacus to compute SHA256....

[LiteCoinGuy]

how do you cool such a powerful rig  ?