Crypto user modifies old school Game Boy for Bitcoin mining
YouTuber Stacksmashing estimated his rig would take "a couple of quadrillion years to mine a Bitcoin." An IT security researcher has been able to adapt Nintendo’s first major handheld game console to mine cryptocurrency.According to a recent YouTube video, user Stacksmashing used the hardware from a Nintendo Game Boy first released in 1989 as a starting point to mine Bitcoin (BTC). Because the gaming console has no built-in wireless capabilities — and largely predates the internet — the YouTuber said he used a Raspberry Pi microcontroller board attached to the Game Boy’s link port and a....
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