This year, the game graphics cards that were originally upgraded for game players have been taken for mining. NVIDIA has also begun to ship CMP mining cards that specifically meet the mining needs, but if you feel that these are not enough, Nintendo’s ancient handheld Game Boy can also be used for mining now.
This anecdote comes from a quoted report from Tom's hardware. On YouTube, an old man named stack smashing successfully imported a mining program from the Game Boy to run, making this 30-year-old antique also the most fashionable this year. However, the Game Boy itself has no networking function, so an external Raspberry Pi Pico is needed to help it connect to the Internet to transmit mining calculation data and verification information, so this is a complete and usable mining platform, The OG version of the Game Boy currently sells for only a few hundred yuan, while a Raspberry Pi Pico only costs tens of yuan.
As for the computing power, the Game Boy is equipped with a Sharp 8bit processor with a main frequency of 4.18MHz, so the mining power of Bitcoin is only 0.8 hash/s, although it is far inferior to today's ASIC mining machines that specialize in mining Bitcoin ( 100 terahash/s), the Game Boy only needs 4 AA batteries to supply power, which is much more power-saving than those graphics cards and mining machines that can run hundreds of kilowatts.
According to the current difficulty of mining, one bitcoin can be mined in tens of trillions of years. If there are offspring, it is okay to be an heirloom, and the Game Boy itself is still an antique collectible by then, Also worth some money. Just kidding, this is just for research purposes. The original YouTube video has a very detailed explanation of the principle, which is worth watching.
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