Mining Bitcoin on the Game Boy
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
- In this video, we attempt to mine Bitcoin on the original Game Boy using the Raspberry Pi Pico as a link-cable to USB adapter!
Links:
- Breakout and ROM cart: gumroad.com/stacksmashing#wKdGY
- Patreon: / stacksmashing
- Twitter: / ghidraninja
Code:
- Game Boy code: github.com/ghidraninja/game-b...
- ntgbtminer for Game Boy: github.com/ghidraninja/game-b...
- Raspberry Pi Pico firmware: github.com/ghidraninja/game-b...
- MVG's Intro to Game Boy programming: • Learn to code and writ...
Also check out the NES miner here: retrominer.com
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:13 - Bitcoin mining explained
02:27 - Hardware setup
03:13 - Game Boy firmware
04:18 - Link Cable Protocol
05:45 - Raspberry Pi Firmware
06:10 - Host computer
07:00 - Let's mine Bitcoin!
07:53 - Testchain 
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amazing haha, well if you need to pick up the mining pace i have a gameboy megamachine (50 gamebos synth) that could work as a megalith of gameboy bitcoin mining, you would have that tesla in no time hahaha
I'd definitely be up for that 😂
I actually developed this on a Game Boy that you signed for me at a concert in Stuttgart! twitter.com/ghidraninja/status/1375083595342155779
@@stacksmashing haha what a small world. Sam is a legend and so are you!
@@stacksmashing And then turn the blocks you are currently crunching on somehow into sound. Tadaaa: Bitcoin Blockchain Art project
I'll take half of your ad revenue for that idea, thanks!
edit: And once you have some soundfiles, sell them using NFTs! Infinite money!
Love your channel m8. Never expected to see you randomly on YT.
Not gonna lie, this would sell well as a NFT at this point
This might be the most technical shitpost I've ever seen.
you probably haven't found suckerpinch on youtube yet :p
@@AfonsodelCB Or Michael Reeves, William Osman, Peter Sripol...
@@lynxiberian7828 michael reeves is just a natural born shitposter
621 likes
and Micheal reeves took that seriously
When your usb serial adapter is more powerful than the miner it's talking to 🙈
I was just wondering if that RPi Nano would mine faster than the Gameboy. But for bragging rights, the Gameboy is tops.
Yup 🤣 but we don’t talk about that 🤫
Beat me to it lmao
I have the suspicion that the USB controller itself on the Pi is more powerful than the GB...
@@daveh7720 the Gameboys' processor runs at 4.19 MHz, while the pi pico runs at 133 MHz - so definitely
2021: mining bitcoin with a Gameboy
2552: mining bitcoin with air
Negative, because all bitcoins will be mined by year 2140.
Brandon, its a damn meme its not meant to be taken seriously.
@@MrEditor6000 xD I wonder if anyone did some animation or something about that time when it will come, what will happen with the rest of bitcoins? will they disappear slowly? who knows
@@MrEditor6000 it will be sooner, we will see mining all cryptocurrencies on our homes with all devices, simultaneously... but yeah mining will end 2140...
@@MrEditor6000 “Negative” …
This needs a sequel where you implement Minecraft for Game Boy and make that run a Bitcoin miner on Redstone.
Very reasonable expectations and I will be angry if he doesn't follow through
To complete the trilogy, he needs to make a simulation of a Game Boy, in the Redstone computer, in Minecraft, on the Game Boy, and have it mine Bitcoin.
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaawwwwww
I knew collecting Game Boys would pay off I'm about to be rich
You again!
Good luck my guy i'll try with my colection of game boy advance
you already r rich dummy
already planning for that tesla huh ? at least gpu prices could go down if people convert to gameboys instead 😂
Wait till you see the retro future
"... which is normally used to perform Pokemon trading, and other highly imprtant things." lol
Lol
What was the joke I didn't got it lmao
@@lakshrajput2273 that Pokémon trading is highly important
@@lakshrajput2273 the joke is that the link cable is mostly used for pokemon trading
@@Cal.F yeah literally pokemon & tetris
I am a compsci major and have never heard a description of Bitcoin mining that was so simple and to the point in exactly what needs to be done to actually make progress mining, usually it is surrounded by so much jargon, great job!
I help students with coding hw. while I had learned my basics in coding I quickly realized that cryptobros like to use jargon to make themselves sound smarter
"Very expensive hardware."
*Shows Gameboy*
Expensive
I mean, they do go for like $100 now
100 gameboys and 3ds
My gbc was $99 when my dad got it for me in 1999. For comparison my clear dmg og gameboy was $10 from a pawnshop at the same time... Ive bought others between then and 2005 for $3 including an unopened pokemon gbc... They are expensive now 😂 $100-250 is alot for not much
11 years ago this would been a little bit harder since the rpi pico would have needed to be substituted with something more traditional, but the funny thing is that the difficulty was at times so low that it would have been actually possible to mine a block (then worth 50BTC) with just a Game Boy.
I’m forever grateful to hackermeg11 on Ig the dude is the best among all try him and thank me later
I’m forever grateful to hackermeg11 on Ig the dude is the best among all try him and thank me later
@@donaldrecommendhackermeg1166 I'm forever hateful towards spam bots such as @toyin sharon on RUclips
@@Idontknow-km5hp 😂😂 haha
@@Idontknow-km5hp p
I have a challenge for you: Bitcoin mining on the DS.
This should be a bit easier, considering the DS already has internet functionality
Piracy is no party
Unless you use a jailbreak 2ds or 3ds then maybe you can mine bitcoins
@@anthonymaxsalien dsi
Eh. Not that obvious. The DS Security is whimsical
@@KingGisInDaHouse lol
I love listening to these videos about messing with computers. It's like watching Telemundo and not knowing Spanish. You enjoy things outside the main conversation, like the visuals. You get happy when you hear a word you recognize, even thought the usage is probably different this time. All in all, a good experience.
125 quadrillion years to mine a single coin. If there's a universe left, I'll see you then.
If this is what you can do on a GameBoy, imagine how rich you could be on a GBA!
I read that in your voice
@@bryandoane9668 WOOOOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP!
and buy mother 3 with the money you got from it
@@mertoslav4606 yes
I have one 🤑🤑🤑
Damn, this almighty boy is gonna crash the market! Be careful 😅
😂
hello funni minecraft entity who messes with windows
Gameboy: "Non gamers didn't care who I was till I put on the ₿ mask"
Hi enderman i love your vids
Helo lets go make widos x
Very cool.
Just FYI the target is encoded in the blockheader in nBits format, so you didn't really need the PC to send both. Also when using the nBits you don't really need to deal with 256 bit integers to expand it out since the format's "exponent" is base 256... meaning you can just shift the position in the byte array where you write the mantissa (the remaining 3 bytes of the nBits)
@Hector Dwight you poor, poor thing
@Hector Dwight that didnt age well lol. yet
This is the most thorough tutorial I’ve ever seen. Thank you for including all the how and why as well!
Watch out world. Now were playing with the unimaginable power of 0.8 hashes per second.
Mine altcoins, 4Head
bruh, the way he said "we're not too far off, only 125,000,000,000 hashes/second difference...
Should of used a Genesis cause it has blast processing!
Im going to the moon
"I have a lot of very high end gaming hardware laying around, so why not use that to mine Bitcoin?"
*Whips out a Gameboy*
@@whatspp6755 uhm what
thanks i missed that part of the video
At first i thought this was just another april fools video that youtube recommended me 3 days too late.
*Then i realised its from a week ago and its actually serious.*
same
It's still a joke because it's too slow and it will take forever to finish one transaction
it's* 2x
If you enchant your Gameboy with Efficiency V and Fortune III you'll get way more bitcoin in less time 😎
We need frost walking to get it cooler
"We also needed to announce our block in case we manage to mine one."
This made me literally laugh out loud.
@@whatspp6755 what
I also died as he said in a super dry tone "If it is we successfully mined a block earning us 12.5 bitcoin" and I was just like "well why do I actually believe 90% of the viewers just have no clue how much money that actually is, thus actually not getting this hilarious irony" 😅
Fun Fact: Bitcoin in these days is just about getting a new alltime high; I'm glad being invested :)
Btw since the halving in May 2020, one block meanwhile gets rewarded with only 6.25 bitcoin instead of 12.5 - just as a small correction on the outdated info in the video.
Imagine if you actually mine a Bitcoin and didn’t bother writing that part of the program 😭
@@silvercrystal3 just think if the astronomical stars aligned the gameboy would have made enough money to retire
Nice!! Actually learn quite a bit from this video.
Glad to hear it!
never thought i’d see these two channels i love talking to each other 😂
I got a better understanding of clock speed too from this video
Me too, I learnt that I am beyond stupid and that I should go and live in a cave
"You never go to the bed without knowing something more."
This might be the most high-effort joke ever
Stacksnashing: unmodified version of game boy
Game Boy: Lights screen
This is incredible! Your explanation of the communication protocol and all the diagrams made things really easy to understand!
Thank you!
I'm agree ^^ @Katelyn
Awe you look so cute
Everything is over explained really like lol do you think we are from some third world country or something you twit
chomo
Most underrated video of the year.
That is super impressive that you were able to port something so modern to such old hardware.
Check out curiousmarc's video's on reconditioning an apollo guidance computer. One of his engineering team implemented the code to run on the AGC.
Totally agree. Very impressive.
Gameboy prices will soon rise.
I love this format. Combining comedy with pure information. Love it.
This was the best explanation of the details behind proof of work that I have ever seen.
Now you gotta get it set up to mine less difficult coins to see if they'll pay for the batteries to run the thing hahaha. Excellent work, super interesting, and probably the most clear rundown on how to mine that I've ever seen
This was actually a fantastic multi-level explainer even if the end product is not terribly useful. You have a gift. Subscribed.
The absolutley best of videos. Great job i really learned a lot from it!
Players: miners bought all the video cards, well, at least the gameboy remained
Miners: Mining Bitcoin on the Game Boy
Play time is over I guess...
By my calculations, given that 14.72 Giga hashes/second currently equals one cent per day, you would make about 1 cent of revenue every 50 million years.
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nice.
I love to see other people still working with the Game Boy :)
hi guy who made gba minecraft
Good creativity friend, congratulations on the work!
super clean explaination of the mining process.
Miners once all the graphics cards in circulation get sold
Necessity is the mother of innovation
By that point, mining will probably crash again, but it seems like there's a never ending cycle. :D
GPU aren't even useful for bitcoin mining becouse ASICS exist they more used for mining ethereum or other coins that are asic resistant
I’m on standby to sell my gameboy to the highest bidder miner.
@@KeinNiemand that doesn't change the fact that miners still buy up all the GPUs for mining other coins other than bitcoin.
"Only off by a factor of 125,000,000,000,000" xD
@Scott daven scammers gonna scam 🙄
This is what the internet was made for. Man it's awesome! Your dry humor is spot on too, damn
LMAO The way you casually delivered the eta to bitcoin is amazing. Sub well earned.
This video was a pretty good quick rundown on mining.
Now the Game Boy price goes up a lot.
i'll buy 16!
I enjoyed this video so much! Keep them coming!
I did not understand a single word said in this video...
Keep up the great work!
other miner: well i got new rtx 30xx series in 8 pcs in one rig.
this guy: i only got 1 gameboy as a rig.
This isn't a good reason to not be able to buy GPUs
Putting the Gameboy into a Mining Pool would be interesting! Nice. Video
When you said you needed to announce, I thought about using the Link cable as a joke. Then u actually did it!!! LOL
This was so cool and educational. Thanks!
now need to bunch of these in series with a solar panel and backup battery. from a few quadrillion years to a couple trillion
well thanks!! rtx 3000 cards are getting back in stock thanks to this!
You did it! I don't know how, but you did it! You found out how to mine Bitcoin without needing expensive hardware, and also using no costly power from the grid. Amazing! Pure profit... =]
I work at a video editing service for creators, and I've worked with dozens of well known RUclipsrs. This channel though blows me away! You're among top quality in my eyes, thank you so much for the amazing work that you do!
I would like to see old cell phones set up for mining, possibly solar powered and throttled so they never get to 0% battery on solar, and possibly times so they just run until the physical hardware of the phones breaks down
a mate of mine is using 11 old windows phones to mine, about the only thing they are useful for :)
Unless they support java apps, it would be very difficult to hack the software to run whatever we want. Maybe they even have obscure processors, like those on calculators :/
@@marcobonera838 actually windows phone is pretty fun os and it uses stock Snapdragon's
I have mined XMR on an iPad mini and Verium on an Android phone. FWIW.
@@GamerFrizz it is actually more useful to use the device, you could mine x50 with a cheap laptop probably (still not worth it and a waste of energy)
Craziest thing I have seen in a long time :) Thanks for that @stacksmashing!!!
youtube kept recommending this video to me for a whole week and in the end, i came and clicked onto it. Be happy RUclips.
Awesome stuff, very cool project ⚡️
I love his tone of voice. If anything is going to hash a block by pure chance it may very well be this gameboy!
You're an absolute legend!
Alternative title, how to turn your gameboy into a heater
Absolutely incredible.
inb4 all GameBoys are sold out everywhere with prices in the 500$ area.
Time to revive my Tamagotchi and put it to some mining use!
These actually use the same CPU as the Commodore 64, not sure how far a ~1MHz CPU gets you.
@@MegaManNeo but i have a truckload of those 😂🤣
Or the Pokewalker from hearth gold soul silvrr
slavery
@@St0RM33 ~ Truckload Mhz assuming you have 10k of them 10 Ghz
I'm so shocked with this idea and with the implementation... genius!! my god
The subtle sarcasm in his statements is the best :')
The amount of people who will see the title and not the entire video who end up scouting for Gameboys.
haaa!
Who cares.
It ain't real, you can't mine bit coins from it, and it doesn't even do anything.
@@Yusei255 there's nothing stopping it from working though you can mine Bitcoin on almost anything...just not well
I'd really enjoy you doing more with that link cable, like communicating with emulators, dumping games or using the GameBoy as a gamepad.
Will think about it! :)
Aaaah so there go the Gameboys and here come the price hikes. Thanx alot
Indeed very close in terms of power!!! Everyone should be doing this!
Amazing video! More like this and you’ll be at 100k subs in no time :)
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hey, it's not even april yet! you can't make a better post than this!
I've planned to listen to the latest WAN show, But I've clicked on this video and I _actually_ cannot click off of it because of how entertaining this is. Wow.
Why haven't I already seen and immediately subscribed to this channel?! Well I have now!
I would never expect would see these kind of content.. arghh my head, this video is like maths
"nonce" means something completely different in england lol
*childish Australian giggling* 😂
Yeah your dad is one. Saw him on the local news once.
Everytime I saw it that’s all I could think about 😂😂 never heard it used in any different context.
Yes, when I first encountered that word in the encryption sense I was like “tf”?
and the fact that the creator of bitcoin (Adam Back) is British
Imagine if it just by random chance happened to actually find a valid block with that hashrate :'v
With a non-random nonce?
Not a single chance, a single miner in the world with a sequencial nonce would be able to submit the valid block before the GB had the time to send it.
[EDIT] I was wrong because every miner must provide its own solution. The same nonce won't give the same answer for two miners.
Fun story : a digital newspaper once proposed to readers to mine crypto while reading articles as an example... To their surprise, they did snatch a few unexpected coins and gave the value to charity.
(It was before hackers noticed that nothing forced to actually *ask* the users if they wanted to lend their machine to mine...)
This is not how it works, as the stuff you are hashing is unique to you (you put your reward address in the block)
@@stacksmashing
Oops, thought the reward was somehow tied after solving the previous block (which would be stupid in hindsight...)
I learned a lot about bitcoin in this video than traditional bitcoin explainer videos here on YT. lol
gotta use all those SIMD instructions on the Gameboy to make it THIS fast
How do you managed to be serious when you said "We are almost as fast", I laughed so hard
This was hilariously informative
I understood nothing, but still enjoyedthe video. Good job!
Incredible! And hilarious!
use the mario game and watch to mine bitcoin
@A Dog it has a usb c, which ie even better!!
I have absolutely no idea what you were explaining lol.
I'm computer illiterate but I truly love the fact of being able to mine a bitcoin off a gameboy that's awesome even if it took a long time it still would be awesome to be able to say YEP I MINED MY OWN COINS OFF A GB.
This guy is so knowledgeable that it makes me feel like I’m not doing something right with my life
Some are good at this, some are good at that..
Just do what you good at, and dont look what others are good at 👍
If a regular Gameboy is at 0.8 Hashes per second, I assume a Gameboy Color can achieve even more than one Hash per second?
As it runs at twice the speed I'd assume roughly 1.6 hashes per second 😆
Now we're getting somewhere
The brain on this lad.
@@stacksmashing What about the GBA or even the 3DS/News 3DS?
@@arran4285 or even the nvidia GPU of the switch
Okay this is really cool. Much cooler than getting an off-the-shelf ASIC miner. But what if you made the pico mine bitcoin?
Thanks for spiking the game boy prices :,)
I like how casually you said "it should only take a few quadrillion years"
This channel is underrated
Damn now I gotta find a Gameboy that’s in stock.
Awesome. You made my day...
Why am i just now finding you.
Like a long lost love i didn't know existed.
Grüße aus Dortmund, man hört deinen Akzent sehr. Gutes video.
So schlimm finde ich es nicht
Very nice :D
Got a few old gameboys, solar charged and its a cheap way to have lottery machines running :)
Would that NGTB miner work along with a threadripper 1950x? :)
Thanks for this video 👍🏻👌🏻✌🏻
This video looked interesting so I clicked it but after watching a bit of it all I got was confusion.
Muy interesante, mi ingles es malo pero el video es interesante! Por un momento pensé que te habían hackeado el canal y me asuste que bueno que no fue asi.
Tiene subtitulos!
I love ppl who sub their vids :3
@@psycho3324 no lo sabia XD y yo aqui batallando con entender!
This was uploaded on my birthday