Game Boy handheld console taught to mine Bitcoin

Enthusiasts used the portable gaming system Game Boy to mine cryptocurrency. A video about it was posted on the YouTube channel stacksmashing.

To run the algorithm, miners needed a Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller board and a PC. For the mining itself, only a Sharp processor running at 4 MHz, installed in the Game Boy, was used.

The system produced a hash rate of 0.8 H/s. At the current Bitcoin price (over $55,000), mining $1 would take 50,000 years.

Since its launch in 1989, Nintendo’s handheld Game Boy has sold more than 118,000 different variants of the device.

In January, a U.S. resident built a miniature mining farm from six Nvidia RTX 3080 graphics cards and placed it in the trunk of a BMW i8.

In February, Chinese miners assembled a farm from laptops based on GeForce RTX 30 GPUs, capable of delivering $77,000 in Ethereum per year.

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