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Originally posted by: Charles Mangin
TL;DR: Mining Bitcoin on a 1MHz 8-bit processor will cost you more than the world’s combined economies, and take roughly 256 trillion years.]]>2019-08-14T18:44:39-00:00Re: Mining Bitcoin on an Apple II, a highly impractical guide
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Originally posted by: Bobbi
Time to get a Zipchip!]]>2019-08-14T18:49:08-00:00Re: Mining Bitcoin on an Apple II, a highly impractical guide
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Originally posted by: Frank M.
On Wednesday, August 14, 2019 at 11:44:41 AM UTC-7, Charles Mangin wrote:
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> TL;DR: Mining Bitcoin on a 1MHz 8-bit processor will cost you more than the world’s combined economies, and take roughly 256 trillion years.
Sounds like you underestimate how many Apple IIs I have in the basement. I could easily knock several trillion years off your estimate.
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> On Wednesday, August 14, 2019 at 11:44:41 AM UTC-7, Charles Mangin wrote:
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>> TL;DR: Mining Bitcoin on a 1MHz 8-bit processor will cost you more than the world’s combined economies, and take roughly 256 trillion years.
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> Sounds like you underestimate how many Apple IIs I have in the basement. I could easily knock several trillion years off your estimate.
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I'll put in a machine or two, where's the 8bitcoin mining pool?]]>Egan Ford2019-08-15T02:27:31-00:00Re: Mining Bitcoin on an Apple II, a highly impractical guide
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> On 8/14/19 5:48 PM, Frank M. wrote:
>> On Wednesday, August 14, 2019 at 11:44:41 AM UTC-7, Charles Mangin wrote:
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>>> TL;DR: Mining Bitcoin on a 1MHz 8-bit processor will cost you more
>>> than the world’s combined economies, and take roughly 256 trillion
>>> years.
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>> Sounds like you underestimate how many Apple IIs I have in the
>> basement. I could easily knock several trillion years off your estimate.
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> I'll put in a machine or two, where's the 8bitcoin mining pool?
Some folk on this comp.sys.apple2 thread seem to get Bitcoin/Crypto
/Mining/HODL'ing/etc. How widespread in the Apple II thread does
this go?
Anyone else retired on Crypto like me? (Mining from 2013 onward) :)
Curious, on how much legacy techno nerds have projected into future
Crypto techno nerds. Perhaps we owe it all to the Apple ][.
brad]]>mrbrad2019-08-15T03:15:12-00:00Re: Mining Bitcoin on an Apple II, a highly impractical guide
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> https://retroconnector.com/mining-bitcoin-on-an-apple-ii-a-h ighly-impractical-guide/
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> TL;DR: Mining Bitcoin on a 1MHz 8-bit processor will cost you more than
> the world’s combined economies, and take roughly 256 trillion years.
At least one person was "working on" a bitcoin mining program for the
Commodore 64, but it was only a hobbyist / fun exercise and they
stopped before getting it fully working (it didn't have any networking
for a start):
German-language forum posts:
< https://www.forum64.de/index.php?thread/45342-bitcoin-mining -auf-dem-c64/#post579246>]]>Your Name2019-08-15T04:09:29-00:00Re: Mining Bitcoin on an Apple II, a highly impractical guide
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1@dont-email.me>, mrbrad <lostgonzo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyone else retired on Crypto like me? (Mining from 2013 onward) :)
Maybe if I hadn't blown the 50 BTC my VPS had CPU-mined on mining equipment
6 years ago. I got about $650 at the time, and spent it on a GPU and some
of the first ASICs to try to make it back. I think most of the proceeds
ended up buying more ASIC miners, but never enough to really pull ahead. If
I'd just held it, that 50 BTC would be worth a half-million right now.
Tried again a couple years ago, this time with GPUs mining altcoins at
exchanges that auto-trade your proceeds to Bitcoin. I made my money back in
about a year, but four GeForce 1070s in a small condo puts a year-round
strain on your A/C and your electric bill.
Maybe if I could run mining rigs outside (but protected from the weather)
and power them off a solar array or some other cheaper source of power than
the 11¢/kWh I'm currently paying...
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