Pseudonymous YouTube content creator called “stacksmashing” has managed to turn his Nintendo Game Boy, a handheld game console released over 30 years ago, into a Bitcoin (BTC) mining machine, as demonstrated in a video published yesterday.
According to stacksmashing, after Elon Musk announced that Tesla has begun accepting BTC payments, it became clear that it’s time to “get into the Bitcoin mining game.” However, the YouTuber couldn’t find any decent graphics cards in online stores, prompting him to get creative.
“But then I realized: I have a lot of very high-end gaming hardware just lying around, why not use that for mining Bitcoin?” he noted.
And so a Game Boy became his hardware of choice. For reference, the original, unmodded console that he used has a 4.19 megahertz CPU, accompanied by 8 kilobytes of video memory.
However, the console’s inability to connect to other devices—Bitcoin nodes in this case— became the main obstacle that stood in the way of stacks
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