Nasa’s Apollo navigation computer can mine Bitcoin
A 35 kg block with ferrite ring storage – nevertheless, the hobbyist Ken Shirriff has been able to configure the restored Nasa AGC to mine Bitcoin. That cost a lot of effort and manual adjustment of the Sha-256 algorithm, said the developer.
Computer historians got an Apollo Guidance Computer from NASA from the 60s up and running. On the collector’s item from a private range, the developer Ken…
