Security researcher Stacksmashing has adapted Nintendo's first handheld video game console for Bitcoin mining. According to him, he decided to take this step prompted by Tesla's announcement it is starting to accept Bitcoins as a means of payment as well as due to the shortage of GPUs on the market. Stacksmashing explained:
"But then I realized: I have a lot of very high-end gaming hardware just lying around, why not use that for mining Bitcoin."
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Nintendo's Game Boy was released in 1989. The device has a 4.19 megahertz core processor, 8 kilobytes of video memory and no Internet access, so Stacksmashing has used a Raspberry Pi microcomputer to connect it to the Bitcoin node. He has added:
"We also need it to announce our block in case we manage to mine one, but the Game Boy doesn’t have Wi-Fi or anything, so how can we get it to communicate with the Bitcoin node."
Stacksmashing has written his own code to mine Bitcoin through the Game Boy to display hashes on the device's screen. He has said:
"The hash rate is pretty impressive—roughy 0.8 hashes per second! If you compare that to a modern ASIC miner, which comes in at around 100 terahashes per second, you can see that we are almost as fast—only off by a factor of roughly 125 trillion. At this rate, it should only take us a couple of quadrillion years to mine a Bitcoin."
Stacksmashing has not stopped there and has already started using the Super Game Boy, released in 1994, for mining:
"Obviously, mining Bitcoin on a Game Boy is everything but profitable, but I learned a lot of things while building this, and definitely had a ton of fun."
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