Crypto myth busted: Users haven't mined Ether using a PlayStation 5 yet
The original report from GizChina said that a software developer had modified the CPU and graphics cards on the new gaming console to mine crypto. While users might still be able to adapt some gaming consoles for mining cryptocurrency, evidence suggests that recent reports of a modified PlayStation 5 mining Ether (ETH) are fake.According to a report from news outlet GizChina, Chinese software developer Yifan Gu mined Ether using a PlayStation 5. The report claimed that the developer may have overclocked the PS5’s AMD Ryzen CPU and AMD Radeon GPU cards to achieve a mining hash rate of 98.76....
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