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Mining a single Bitcoin with a Commodore 64 will pack at least 50 trillion years

Don't panic, the fact that you can now mine Bitcoin using a Commodore 64 doesn't mean there's departure to be a cosmos shortage of 8-bit C64's, because information technology somehow turns dead not to be profitable. In point of fact it would actually cost you much $1.1 quadrillion in push alone, though, as our Jacob has pointed tabu, star power will be pretty bargain-priced by then.

We are owing to be swallowed up by the Sun in around seven to cardinal cardinal years, which agency it will be nothing if not ample.

The YouTube TV channel, 8-Tur Show And Tell (via Sweclockers), has shown the Bitcoin Miner 64 software running on a classic Commodore 64. And, I'll be honest, my eyeballs got a little moist at the sight of the beautiful rusty Charles Grey slab of personal computing joy.

Eventide if information technology could sole achieve a Bitcoin hasheesh at a rate of every 3.5 seconds, or around 0.3 H/s.

Given that current Bitcoin ASICs are organism measured in terahashes per second, and not just uninterrupted hashes per second, you can see why it's exit to carry a while with the august C64. The 50 trillion year mark is also a park figure for the upgraded SuperCPU accelerator supplement that 8-Spot Express And Tell apart used in their video to try and break up the Commodore rig's performance; I don't lack to get close the extreme numbers you'd collide with at 0.3 H/s.

With the accelerator in place we can see the hashish rate leaps to a prudent 10 H/s. That would net you 0.00000000000002 Bitcoin per annum, and at 10 H/s on the 21W C64 that would still cost you around $22 per year to mine. And realistically the hashing difficultness mightiness just creep dormy over the following 50 trillion years. We might foot race out of Bitcoins by then excessively.

They note that the software program they're using is written in C, but they could possibly achieve a speedup of up to ten times if IT was written in machine code. Though that still wouldn't micturate any difference to your chance of turning a net profit.

Not sure how IT would peck up against Ethereum, so we're still no nigher to figuring retired if it can take some of the strain off the beleaguered graphics card market, but we've got to hope that new Ethereum Bitmain ASIC bequeath shoulder some of that burden for us.

Still, leastways the upgraded Commodore 64 is quicker than a Gimpy Boy at Bitcoin mining. As a long-time Commodore fan-boi I'm belongings onto that atomic number 3 a succeed.

Dave has been gaming since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on the Colecovision, and code books for the Commodore Vic 20 (Death Race 2000!). He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished hemipteron-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later. When He dropped it out of the window. He first started committal to writing for Semiofficial PlayStation Magazine and Xbox World many decades ago, then moved onto PC Format full-time, so PC Gamer, TechRadar, and T3 among others. Right away helium's back, writing close to the nightmarish artwork card securities industry, CPUs with more cores than sense, gaming laptops hotter than the sun, and SSDs more capacious than a Cybertruck.