{"id":39711,"date":"2021-03-29T09:38:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T06:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=39711"},"modified":"2025-08-30T10:58:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T07:58:46","slug":"game-boy-handheld-console-taught-to-mine-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/game-boy-handheld-console-taught-to-mine-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Boy handheld console taught to mine Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enthusiasts used the portable gaming system Game Boy to mine cryptocurrency. A video about it was posted on the YouTube channel stacksmashing.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\\\"lazy\\\" title=\\\"YouTube video player\\\" src=\\\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4ckjr9x214c\\\" width=\\\"560\\\" height=\\\"315\\\" frameborder=\\\"0\\\" allowfullscreen=\\\"allowfullscreen\\\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Since its launch in 1989, Nintendo&#8217;s handheld Game Boy has sold more than 118,000 different variants of the device.<\/p>\n<p>In January, a U.S. resident built a miniature mining farm from six Nvidia RTX 3080 graphics cards and placed it <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/miner-installs-mining-rig-in-bmw-sports-car-to-annoy-gamers\">in the trunk of a BMW i8<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Chinese miners assembled a farm from laptops based on GeForce RTX 30 GPUs, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/china-based-miners-assemble-a-laptop-farm-capable-of-yielding-77000-in-ethereum-per-year\">capable of delivering $77,000 in Ethereum per year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to 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>Enthusiasts have found a way to use the portable Game Boy to mine cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39712,"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":[1137,1155],"class_list":["post-39711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-mining","tag-games-and-gamefi"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"27","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39713,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39711\/revisions\/39713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}