A Polish developer wrote a bitcoin software miner for the Commodore 64, a 1982 computer. He essentially rewrote the code for the mining program for the 1989 Game Boy.
Maciej Witkowiak posted on GitHub a code that allows mining BTC on a Commodore 64, one of the first mainstream computers, with a performance of 0.2 x / s. The Commodore 64 was released in 1982 and became the first widely used 8-bit personal computer focused on gaming and music production. A home computer had 64 kibbytes of RAM, whereas modern computers typically have 4 to 32 gigabytes of RAM.
Mining can be implemented on almost any computer – it comes down to processing hash functions. In the early years of Bitcoin’s existence, it was possible to mine on a home computer, but now for a month’s earnings above the average salary, the purchase of equipment worth tens of thousands of dollars is required, and the full payback period is measured in months, and often years.
Mining BTC on Commodore 64. Image: Maciej Vitkoviak.
The developer of the code for mining on the Commodore 64, Maciej Vitkoviak, estimated the hash rate on an old computer at 0.2 x / s. For comparison, a modern ASIC miner, for example, Antminer T19, calculates hashes at 84 Tx / s. Therefore, it is unlikely that a block of Bitcoin or other mainstream cryptocurrency will ever be mined on the Commodore 64.
Since you can run the BTC mining process on any computer, developers have recently begun experimenting with a variety of old equipment. Last month, a YouTube user turned
The 1989 Game Boy – Nintendo’s first major handheld video game console – to the BTC miner. The Commodore 64 code on Github is a fork of the Game Boy code.
Vitkovyak noted that the Commodore 64 is not very efficient at handling 32-bit computations that are required when executing hash functions. He gave users a recommendation: “Just enjoy this experience.”
Recall that at the beginning of the year, a miner from the United States installed a mining farm from Nvidia video cards in the trunk of his BMW i8 and powered it from the car’s electrical power system.
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