Cryptocurrency is often mined with GPUs and ASICs, but there isn't only this way for mining coins.
In this article, I will talk about strangest ways found for mining crypto
Let's GO !
1 - EVM
Ethereum Virtual Machine is (easy to find) the engine that runs ethereum smart contracts. It uses solidity programming language, and a bitcoin (sha256) miner was coded in solidity as a smart contract.
- github repo : https://github.com/mvrcrypto/solidity-miner
EVM is also used on other blockchains like thundercore (see my post about), testnets and many other (full list on chainid.network)
2 - Arduino Boards
Arduino Boards are little boards used for development and testing. Not many people knows that Duino-Coin an arduino-mineable crytocurrency exists (and runs fine).
- Coin Name : Duino-Coin
- Ticker : DUCO
- website : duinocoin.com
- github repo : https://github.com/revoxhere/duino-coin
3 - Old IBM mainframe
Ken Shirriff, an american used an IBM 1401 mainframe for mining bitcoins. It wasn't profitable and solved 1 hash every 80 seconds when an USB asic solves billions hashes per seconds, but it shows computers evolution since 60s. Probably author earned more from his posts about it than from mining.
4 - Pencil and Paper
Ken Shirriff (the same !) had the idea of mining bitcoins with pencils and paper. He didn't get rich with that but proven that it was possible. If you want to know all about it, I advise you to read his post about it.
5 - HDDs
Burstcoin can be "mined" with hard disks via PoC (Proof of Capacity) consensus. Thanks to kamelikenka for this proposal.
- coin : Burstcoin
- Ticker : BURST
- website : https://www.burst-coin.org/
- github repo : https://github.com/burst-apps-team/burstcoin
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