{"id":226630,"date":"2021-03-29T22:55:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T22:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/game-boy-bitcoin-miner\/"},"modified":"2021-03-29T22:55:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T22:55:17","slug":"youtuber-manages-to-mine-bitcoin-using-game-boy-game-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/03\/29\/youtuber-manages-to-mine-bitcoin-using-game-boy-game-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTuber Manages to Mine Bitcoin Using Game Boy | Game Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\"><meta name= \\\"keywords \\\" content= \\\"\u96fb\u5b50\u8a08\u7b97\u6a5f, \u6559\u80b2, IT \u96fb\u8166\u73ed,\u96fb\u8166\u88dc\u7fd2\uff0c \u96fb\u8166\u73ed\uff0c \u5bb6\u6559\uff0c \u79c1\u4eba\u8001\u5e2b\uff0c \u8cc7\u8a0a\u6280\u8853\uff0c \u7a0b\u5e8f\u8a2d\u8a08\uff0c \u96fb\u5b50\u8a08\u7b97\u6a5f\uff0c \u904a\u6232\uff0c \u860b\u679c\uff0c \u96fb\u5f71\uff0c \u8a08\u7b97\u6a5f\uff0c\u7de8\u78bc\uff0c Java\uff0c C\/C++\uff0c JavaScript\uff0c PHP\uff0c HTML\uff0c CSS\uff0c MySQL\uff0c mobile\uff0c Android\uff0c \u52d5\u6f2b\uff0c Python\uff0c teacher\uff0c \u88dc\u7fd2\uff0c \u96fb\u8166\u88dc\u7fd2 \u8cc7\u8a0a, \u7535\u5b50\u8ba1\u7b97\u673a, IT ,Game, apple, movie, Computer,student,Java,\u6559\u80b2, ,\u5b66\u751f, \u5b66\u4e60, learn, \u6559\u5b66,  Android, apple,anime, animation, \u4fe1\u606f\u6280\u672f, \u7a0b\u5e8f\u8bbe\u8ba1, \u79fb\u52a8\u7535\u8bdd, \u8cc7\u8a0a\u79d1\u6280,Game, Jeu, Juego,Call Of Duty ,\u4f7f\u547d\u53ec\u559a , \u6e38\u620f, \u7535\u5b50\u6e38\u620f,, \u591a\u4eba\u7535\u5b50\u6e38\u620f, \u7f51\u7edc\u6e38\u620f\uff0conline\uff0conline game, \u624b\u673a\u6e38\u620f, mobile \\\"><\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static3.gamerantimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/gameboy-bitcoin-mining.jpg\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>An unlikely use for a Game Boy was recently discovered, refashioning the handheld device into a Bitcoin mining system.\u00a0In the last year, cryptocurrency continued an already meteoric rise, with a single Bitcoin currently standing at around 57 thousand US dollars. With that, traders have dedicated serious processing power to mining.\u00a0YouTuber stacksmashing decided to go a different route and put some vintage hardware, in the form of a <a href=\"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/tag\/game-boy\/\">Game Boy<\/a>, to the test.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the <a href=\"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/nvidia-gpu-shortage-not-due-crypto-mining-says-cfo\/\">shortage of available GPUs<\/a>, stacksmashing had to figure a way to convert their Game Boy into a Bitcoin mining operation. In order to do so, they employed the use of a standard USB flashcard\u2014to run the ROMs on the Game Boy\u2014as well as a modified link cable combined with a Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller board to ferry information between the Game Boy and the host computer.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"related-single\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/call-of-duty-bitcoin-ransom-stolen-accounts\/\">Stolen Call of Duty Hacked Accounts Ransomed For Bitcoins<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Just earlier this month, rumors that the <a href=\"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/ps5-ethereum-mining-hoax\/\">PlayStation 5 could mine Ethereum<\/a>\u00a0surfaced but were quickly dismissed. Now, through this incredible feat of ingenuity, stacksmashing&#8217;s Game Boy began to mine Bitcoin. For fans that are unfamiliar with cryptocurrency, Bitcoin is a finite resource that is\u00a0&#8220;mined&#8221;\u00a0through solving algorithmic puzzles. The algorithms are essentially long strings of numbers that, if their value is less than or equal to a target number, produce a Bitcoin. Because a miner needs to check\u00a0an astronomical amount of numbers against the target, a colossal amount of processing power is normally employed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4ckjr9x214c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, as expected, mining Bitcoin on a Game Boy is slow. In fact, that&#8217;s putting it lightly, it&#8217;s unfathomably slow. During tests, stacksmashing estimated that the Game Boy, when compared to modern mining operations, is only about 125 trillion times\u00a0less effective, meaning a <a href=\"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/programmer-cant-remember-password-hard-drive-240-million-bitcoin\/\">potential Bitcoin fortune<\/a> made by using the Game Boy may be out of reach. An advantage, the YouTuber jokingly points out is that the Asics mining operations use a ton of power whereas the Game Boy uses only 4 AA batteries.<\/p>\n<p>To further cement the experiment, stacksmashing set up a blockchain with an extremely low difficulty to see if the Game Boy could theoretically mine a Bitcoin. It did. While mining on a Game Boy is hardly feasible or worthwhile, the mere fact that a\u00a0Game Boy could be refashioned in such a way makes this effort a success. 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