I have been pretty lucky. 22% increase in my investment after 1 year. I am not going to complain about that. But dear god there are some weirdos in the space. Makes sim racers look normal.
Re: Steam payments in Bitcoin
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2019 9:40 am
by DarrenM
Speaking of weirdo's and space, an Apollo Guidance Computer has been programmed to mine bitcoin.
Among the many technological breakthroughs of NASA's Apollo project to land a man on the Moon was the Apollo Guidance Computer that flew onboard Apollo spacecraft. In an era when most computers were refrigerator-sized—if not room-sized—the AGC weighed only about 70 pounds. It was one of the first computers to use integrated circuits.
A team of computer historians got its hands on one of the original AGCs and got it working. A member of the team, Ken Shirriff, then decided to see if the computer could be used for bitcoin mining.
Today, most bitcoin mining is done using specialized hardware capable of computing trillions of hashes per second. Shirriff's software for the Apollo Guidance Computer was quite a bit slower than that: each bitcoin hash calculation takes about 10 seconds.
"The computer is so slow that it would take about a billion times the age of the universe to successfully mine a bitcoin block," Shirriff wrote.
