The geek converted the Nintendo Game Boy into a Bitcoin mining machine

The bull market in the cryptocurrency market has caused the prices of Bitcoin and Ethereum to soar, and the Bitcoin mining machines and professional graphics cards used for mining have also experienced serious supply problems.

Since there is no miner and graphics card, why not try to change the idle equipment into a miner? A geek has recently changed the Nintendo Game Boy game console to a mining machine.

This game console was first released in 1989, which is many years before the advent of Bitcoin. Can the game console be transformed into a mining machine for mining?

Facts have proved that it really has to be modified and the mining speed is very slow. After all, the processor of this game console has fallen far behind the current mainstream chips.

It is impossible to mine on this game machine without modification because mining needs to download bitcoin blocks and the storage space of the game machine is completely insufficient for storage.

So YouTuber StackSmashing prepares Raspberry Pi, adapter boards, and ordinary computers for game consoles, among which ordinary computers are used as nodes.

The adapter board is used because the wiring of the game console needs to be modified so that the game console can be connected to the Raspberry Pi and ordinary computers to connect to the network and use the hard disk.

After all, the Game Boy can’t connect to the Internet and can’t mine, but after a simple modification, geeks did transform this game console into a mining machine and it can still run.

The test shows that the hash rate of Bitcoin mining is 0.8 hash/sec. Obviously, it is impossible to successfully mine bitcoins at this speed, but the geeks built a new bitcoin blockchain to test the mining success.

That is to say, this hash rate can be mined without competition for computing power and the difficulty of mining is extremely low, but it is impossible to mine Bitcoin.