Chap mines Bitcoin with PUNCH CARDS and ancient mainframe - The Register

Chap mines Bitcoin with PUNCH CARDS and ancient mainframe - The Register


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Chap mines Bitcoin with PUNCH CARDS and ancient mainframe
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Vintage hardware enthusiast Ken Shirriff has shown that a model 1401 mainframe, which IBM announced in 1959, can mine Bitcoin. If, that is, your definition of mining includes “chugging away at the problem until pretty close to the heat-death of the ...

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Mon, 25 May 2015 22:05:27 GMT

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