{"id":40619,"date":"2021-04-13T09:52:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T06:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=40619"},"modified":"2025-08-30T14:58:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T11:58:39","slug":"1982-era-computer-used-to-mine-bitcoins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/1982-era-computer-used-to-mine-bitcoins\/","title":{"rendered":"1982-era computer used to mine bitcoins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An emulator of a 1982-era Commodore 64 was used to mine cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote twitter-tweet is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You can now mine Bitcoin using your vintage Commodore 64: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UJ2VbtapCv\">https:\/\/t.co\/UJ2VbtapCv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3mH2EGeyMJ\">pic.twitter.com\/3mH2EGeyMJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hackster.io (@Hacksterio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hacksterio\/status\/1381377745536626691?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Commodore 64 was sold from August 1982 until April 1994, though by the time production ended it was already obsolete. It featured an 8-bit MOS Technology 6510 processor running at just over 1 MHz, 64 KB of RAM and the VIC-II graphics chip.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full wp-image-131483\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2058\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/e284b6d147219439623e5b92edf6024e-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"1982-era computer used to mine bitcoins\" class=\"wp-image-131483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/e284b6d147219439623e5b92edf6024e-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/e284b6d147219439623e5b92edf6024e-300x241.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/e284b6d147219439623e5b92edf6024e-1024x823.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/e284b6d147219439623e5b92edf6024e-768x617.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/e284b6d147219439623e5b92edf6024e-1536x1235.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/e284b6d147219439623e5b92edf6024e-2048x1646.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption>Data: Twitter WeirdlandTales.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Developer Maciej Witkowiak <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ytmytm\/c64-bitcoin-miner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">created<\/a> C64 Bitcoin Miner software specifically for the vintage PC. On the VICE emulator he demonstrated a hash rate of 0.2 H\/s.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe C64 would require 337 years and 10 months to mine a block,\u201d the developer noted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A real retro computer does not have built-in network adapters, so it would need a serial port or an external modem to connect to a network.<\/p>\n<p>Witkowiak&#8217;s experiment was inspired by the stacksmashing enthusiast, who previously ran a Bitcoin miner <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/game-boy-handheld-console-taught-to-mine-bitcoin\">on Nintendo&#8217;s portable Game Boy handheld console<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Back in autumn 2017, a team of developers restored a Xerox Alto 1973 computer to full functionality and managed to make the system mine bitcoins.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An emulator of a 1982-era Commodore 64 was used to mine cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1723,1137,1626],"class_list":["post-40619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-computers","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-experiment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"49","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40621,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40619\/revisions\/40621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}