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I don't think the point was for other people to recreate a bitcoin miner - no one will have 4+ S5s laying around to use anyway. It's just to show that they stil

I don't think the point was for other people to recreate a bitcoin miner - no one will have 4+ S5s laying around to use anyway. It's just to show that they still have some computation power that can be used.

CyberDildonics 9y ago
But the post you are replying to is showing that they literally can't be used for this.
- colejohnson66 9y ago
  I think they quite literally can be used that way. Practically? No.
  - CyberDildonics 9y ago
    What does that prove then? That they can do computations?
  - dTal 9y ago
    They can mine bitcoin. They can't be used for mining bitcoin. It proves nothing whatsoever about the utility of old S5s, any more than this[1] shows that old 60s mainframes "still have some power that can be used". [1] http://www.righto.com/2015/05/bitcoin-mining-on-55-year-old-ibm-1401.html http://www.righto.com/2015/05/bitcoin-mining-on-55-year-old-...