Bitcoin mining with Game Boy: 1 BTC takes trillion years

The increasing popularity of cryptocurrencies , especially #Bitcoin , brings with it the search for different ways of #mining #crypto money .

A computer scientist Americans in 2019, the first manned moon used to ride with 52 years computer for Bitcoin mining to do after achieving now a #Youtuber, #Nintendo Game Boy a Bitcoin mining equipment has transformed.

↘️Using an original and unmodified Game Boy, Youtuber also sought a solution to this problem, as the device did not have Wi-Fi access and Bitcoin mining required an internet connection:

“To mine, we need to somehow communicate with a Bitcoin node that communicates with the Bitcoin network and will provide the data required for mining. Also, we need it to post our block if we manage to dig but Game Boy doesn't have Wi-Fi or anything like that, so how can we communicate with the Bitcoin node? "

He found the solution to connect Game Boy to a computer using #RaspberryPi #Pico:

“Luckily Game Boy has a connection port that is normally used to do #Pokemon trading and other important things, and we can use it to communicate with a computer. I decided to use the Raspberry Pi Pico to create a plug-in cable to USB adapter because it makes it really easy to implement any kind of IO protocol and I was really looking forward to taking advantage of it. ”

↘️It takes trillions of years to produce 1 BTC with Game Boy
Those who own Nintendo's Game Boy can follow the steps in the video to mine cryptocurrency with it. On the other hand, a human life is not enough to produce Bitcoin with this device. The game console has a power of only 0.8 hash per second. For comparison, the ASIC devices used in Bitcoin mining have around 100 trillion hashes.