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Commodore 64 Modded To Mine Bitcoin

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It should say CBM, it's either a typo or a simple mistake.
Except that the "C" is nowhere near the "I" on a keyboard. Any keyboard, anywhere in the world. It wasn't a simple misspelling. It was an error in fact checking, something easy to avoid in reference to Commodore.

CBM (Commodore Business Machines)
Commodore never had a dedicated "business machine" division. Commodore was just Commodore.
EDIT: Nevermind. As RTB point out, it looks like they did after all.
 
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Kill it with fire.
Are you worried about Commodore64 going out of stock or something?

This isn't a serious use for it. It's more like a hobbyist project.

Commodore never had a dedicated "business machine" division. Commodore was just Commodore.
Uh... from your article's opening.

along with its subsidiary Commodore Business Machines

It’s an enthusiast hobby project, so how is it pathetic?
I like modding old hardware to do useless things. I wrote a NES game and burned it to cart that according to my brother "was the dumbest game in history."

He didn't know it was entirely designed from the getgo to annoy him. He hadn't even been born when the NES launched, but I had plans the moment he came into this world, see?

The game was a maze that if you touched the walls, screamed at you in an annoying synth tone and attempted to give you an eplieptic seizure with fun flashes (no he's not eplileptic, that wouldn't be funny). Fun. The character was a potato like being that was not at all modeled after my brother.
 
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Are you worried about Commodore64 going out of stock or something?

iirc Commodore went bankrupt in the mid 90s shortly after Jack Tramiel left. He was the only one in senior management that had a clue about computers.

Amazingly you can still buy a C64 that works for a few hundred dollars considering we are talking about a computer that is almost 40 years old.
 
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It's a proof of concept creation only.
I'd like to see what other devices can be modified to mine, as mentioned, an I.O.T. fridge should be possible to mod, as should any "smart" TV and any device with a CPU.
 
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It's a proof of concept creation only.
I'd like to see what other devices can be modified to mine, as mentioned, an I.O.T. fridge should be possible to mod, as should any "smart" TV and any device with a CPU.
The time to mine Bitcoin was a long time ago, even Etherium is probably past the point where it's feasible to mine a lot without enormous resources.

So if you want to conduct an evil master plan for your IoT botnet, you should mine some of those cryptocurrencies which are just gaining traction, and mine at a rate which goes by unnoticed. I'd be surprised if someone isn't already doing this, I've heard of IoT botnets of toasters in the past, so someone must be doing mining too?
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iirc Commodore went bankrupt in the mid 90s shortly after Jack Tramiel left. He was the only one in senior management that had a clue about computers.

Amazingly you can still buy a C64 that works for a few hundred dollars considering we are talking about a computer that is almost 40 years old.
I know, it was sort of a rhetorical silly question.
 
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The time to mine Bitcoin was a long time ago, even Etherium is probably past the point where it's feasible to mine a lot without enormous resources.
Pretty much this. The cryptobubble will likely pop once yields dry-up and become cost prohibitive.
 
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Pretty much this. The cryptobubble will likely pop once yields dry-up and be cost prohibitive.
Certainly, if the bubble bursts before mining dries up, then sure, mining will become less attractive. But chances are mining will become too expensive long before the speculation ends, because that can continue as long as there are enough fools willing to drive up the price even further.

I remember when I first looked into Bitcoin, people were using 1-2 cards to mine hundreds of them in a matter of weeks. While I have sometimes pondered about what if I had just mined like 50 of them myself, I'm actually glad I didn't. While the profits on paper sounds amazing, in my country people who did make a profit on this can't use that money except for paying taxes.

In regards to bursting cryptobubbles, while there will probably be one or more Etherium bubbles coming "soon", there will ultimately also be a collapse of cryptocurrencies for speculation purposes, and when that happens, you'd better hope most real companies will get out in time. Many tech companies are already playing with it, and since most retirement funds are invested in such companies we can end up all taking a hit when this comes crumbling down. If this nonsense goes on for too long, the dot com bubble will be nothing compared to the big crypto bubble.
 
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So the standard watch has more powerful then this thing
so can we mine on a appple watch
 

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I like modding old hardware to do useless things. I wrote a NES game and burned it to cart that according to my brother "was the dumbest game in history."

He didn't know it was entirely designed from the getgo to annoy him. He hadn't even been born when the NES launched, but I had plans the moment he came into this world, see?

The game was a maze that if you touched the walls, screamed at you in an annoying synth tone and attempted to give you an eplieptic seizure with fun flashes (no he's not eplileptic, that wouldn't be funny). Fun. The character was a potato like being that was not at all modeled after my brother.
I would like this game. I don't have an NES (yet), but I do have an original NES controller that I use with my PC with a USB adapter. Works great.
 
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I would like this game. I don't have an NES (yet), but I do have an original NES controller that I use with my PC with a USB adapter. Works great.
Unfortunately I am not sure I have it anymore in file or even physical form. Got out of that modding scene years ago.

Oh yes, let's give people bad ideas...
It's been done. Mining on arm cpus is akin to cpu mining: not very (if at all) usable.
 

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Now, I'm no expert on mining, but one thing I know, is that it needs a lot of GPU memory, even by modern standards, so how the hell did they get it to work on a 64K RAM computer with a primitive memory mapped video processor?!! :eek: It can't even be called a GPU really. That's amazing right there, let alone the rest. What a technical feat. Respect.
 
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Now, I'm no expert on mining, but one thing I know, is that it needs a lot of GPU memory, even by modern standards, so how the hell did they get it to work on a 64K RAM computer with a primitive memory mapped video processor?!! :eek: It can't even be called a GPU really. That's amazing right there, let alone the rest. What a technical feat. Respect.
Bitcoin doesn't that's how. No one mines bitcoin this way anymore though, and you'd literally never make a penny in your lifetime doing this.
 

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Bitcoin doesn't that's how. No one mines bitcoin this way anymore though, and you'd literally never make a penny in your lifetime doing this.
Yeah, I know it's actually completely useless, but I thought bitcoin needed lots of graphics memory to even compute. Looks like I'm mistaken.
 
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Yeah, I know it's actually completely useless, but I thought bitcoin needed lots of graphics memory to even compute. Looks like I'm mistaken.
You are thinking of ethereum. Bitcoin is all compute no memory (it's just an sha256 hash).
 
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The odd thing is, GPUs are actually fairly inefficient at cryptomining. A custom ASIC would mine SOOO much better. People are just fricken lazy...
 
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The odd thing is, GPUs are actually fairly inefficient at cryptomining. A custom ASIC would mine SOOO much better. People are just fricken lazy...
Yes, and they've been made. Bitcoin and Litecoin, the first two cryptocoins, are exclusively mined by asics.

The issue is these new coins are designed extensively to avoid asics, by making their PoW algorithm bandwidth intensive and memory hard. This means to design an ASIC for them you'd basically end up with a... gpu like device. It's benefits would be limited and the costs exclude anyone from even attempting it.

Ethereum as an example presently uses at minimum ~4.25GBs of memory for it's DAG PoW. And it's rising daily.
 
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This means to design an ASIC for them you'd basically end up with a... gpu like device. It's benefits would be limited and the costs exclude anyone from even attempting it.
Ah but it would different enough that it would not be a GPU, nor would it be as complex and yet still do more work than a proper GPU.
 
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