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Cryptocurrency: Mining with the Apollo Guidance Computer
- Subject: Cryptocurrency: Mining with the Apollo Guidance Computer
- From: zen at freedbms.net (Zenaan Harkness)
- Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 10:05:18 +1000
- In-reply-to: <CAD2Ti2_6po+xB71nm=GWkipLjBxQOx6CsbtNc6R7oS93EtTgHQ@mail.gmail.com>
- References: <CAD2Ti2_6po+xB71nm=GWkipLjBxQOx6CsbtNc6R7oS93EtTgHQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 12:50:51PM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
> http://www.righto.com/2019/07/bitcoin-mining-on-apollo-guidance.html
>
> We've been restoring an Apollo Guidance Computer1. Now that we have
> the world's only working AGC, I decided to write some code for it.
> Trying to mine Bitcoin on this 1960s computer seemed both pointless
> and anachronistic, so I had to give it a shot. Implementing the
> Bitcoin hash algorithm in assembly code on this 15-bit computer was
> challenging, but I got it to work...
MoonCoin, comin your way in 3 ... 2 ...
Hodl muffas!