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Bitcoin mining on a 55 year old IBM 1401 mainframe: 80 seconds per hash
Could an IBM mainframe from the 1960s mine Bitcoin? The idea seemed crazy, so I decided to find out. I implemented the Bitcoin hash algorith...
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Crypto & BlockchainHistory & Retro Computing2015
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 2015 | Bitcoin mining on a 55 year old IBM 1401 mainframe: 80 seconds per hash by dezgeg | 162 | 34 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 5 Hacker News comments by 5 different people, from Jul 2017 to Dec 2022.
Most recent:
- colejohnson66 · Dec 9, 2022
- nayuki · Apr 10, 2021
- segfaultbuserr · Jul 8, 2019
- dTal · Oct 29, 2017
- kens · Jul 2, 2017
