Comments on: This is quite possibly the most brilliantly useless bitcoin mining rig ever created. http://www.buttcoinfoundation.org/this-is-the-most-brilliantly-useless-bitcoin-mining-rig-ever-created Buttcoin - It's Bitcoins with Butts! Thu, 02 Mar 2017 10:36:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 By: Urpo Lankinen http://www.buttcoinfoundation.org/this-is-the-most-brilliantly-useless-bitcoin-mining-rig-ever-created#comment-848 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:52:00 +0000 http://buttcoin.org/?p=1037#comment-848 Got to appreciate this, purely as a completely useless but at the same time ingenious hack.

However, it’s not exactly elegant. cc65? Ugh, compiled C code, I’m sure hand-crafted 6502 assembly would have done the job more efficiently. And what’s with all this newfangled USB cable bullshit? Pseudo-ROM packaging? Good grief. Tell you what: It’d be probably pretty easy to develop some kind of an interface to talk between a modern PC and a Commodore 64 user port. Load that software up in a C64, just have the stuff fly back and forth over the cable, and you’d get a whole lot higher throughput that way and wouldn’t even need hacky webcam solutions. You’d get several more hashes verified per minute that way!

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