Youtuber Builds a Bitcoin Miner Out of a 31-year old Nintendo Game Boy
On Saturday, a popular Youtuber named Stacksmashing published a video that shows him hacking a 1989 Nintendo Game Boy in order to mine bitcoin. Despite the creativity and the fact that the miner only leverages four double-A batteries, Stacksmashing noted that the 8-bit handheld game console was not nearly as powerful as today’s modern mining rig. Mining Bitcoin With a Game Boy Four years ago, a few people created some interesting methods to mine and connect with the Bitcoin network. For instance, the bitcoiner Ken Shirriff who is known for getting the bitcoin symbol added to Unicode....
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This tutorial will show you how to connect a miner to P2Pool nodes for various cryptocurrencies. What To Expect. We will select a suitable coin to mine, pass the correct parameters to the miner software and earn shares for pay-out. It is suggested that you run your miner for at least 24 hours to gain maximum shares and know-how from this test drive. Initially, it will seem as if your mining is not achieving much, but be patient. After an hour or two, you will see your mining shares start accumulating, and some pay-outs should arrive in your wallet after 3-6 hours. This lag is due to the....
Clearly Super Mario isn't the only one collecting coins. The market capitalization of Doge, a meme-based token that started as a joke seven years ago, briefly passed that of major Japanese video game company Nintendo following a price rally.According to data from AssetDash, the market capitalization of Dogecoin (DOGE) surged to $77.7 billion earlier today following a rally which took the price of the token above $0.60 for the first time. This rally put the market cap of the token project ahead of both cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase at $73.8 billion and Nintendo at $76.3 billion. Though....