Topic: Is it possible to mine bitcoins on a bulky 1960’s IBM computer? - page 2. (Read 1401 times)
Why not attach some ASICs in the computer and outrun most of the recent computers that have no ASICs attached to them?
I prefer the graphics on the 1960s IBM machines, because they didn't use blurry anti-aliasing like modern video games. They also didn't use monitors, so there was 0% image distortion.
Thank you for the laugh! I'm at work having a crap day and you just made it a little better. 
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"Metaphorically saying, the 80 seconds that took the machine to solve the algorithm and process one single hash is just ages by present standards.."
Well at least it could solve it, but who would bother mining with a machine that came out several decades ago? I wonder how many bitcoins could it produce if the difficulty is set to 0.
If diff was 0 then every hash would be a block ... afaik
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"Metaphorically saying, the 80 seconds that took the machine to solve the algorithm and process one single hash is just ages by present standards.."
Well at least it could solve it, but who would bother mining with a machine that came out several decades ago? I wonder how many bitcoins could it produce if the difficulty is set to 0.
about 500.000.000.000.000 years, or about 40.000 times of the current age of our universe to solve just 1 Bitcoin block
yeah if the diff remain the same, not to mention that those old computers are everything but efficient in electricity terms
yeah if the diff remain the same, not to mention that those old computers are everything but efficient in electricity terms
Ken Shirriff, an electronics engineer and tech blogger, tried to mine a BTC block using a bit antediluvian IBM computer originating from the 1960s. Was it successful?
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