Samsung Made a Bitcoin Mining Rig Out of Old Galaxy S5s

Re:Samsung Made a Bitcoin Mining Rig Out of Old Galaxy S5s by sxates on Friday October 27, 2017 @05:27PM (#15572360)

This is super cool! I was just thinking about what all you could use old phones for, and they could easily replace a lot of existing devices.

Like Nest thermostats and cameras - there's no reason those devices couldn't be replaced by old phones running custom software, instead of buying purpose built hardware that costs $150+. My old iPhone4 is just as capable hardware-wise as a nest cam - so why can't I turn it into that?

Amazon Echo Show - that could just be an old phone docked to a speaker base.

Smart Light Switches - phone on the wall.

Dedicated alarm clock - old phone on the night stand.

Host device for chromecasts or AppleTV? Old phones have more than enough power, they just need an HDMI output adapter.

Lots of possibilities, especially with something like their bitcoin rig that ties a bunch of devices together for more horsepower.

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Re:Samsung Made a Bitcoin Mining Rig Out of Old Galaxy S5s by khedoros1 on Friday October 27, 2017 @07:53PM (#15573184)

I know I've used old phones as baby monitors, wifi cameras, Roku and soundbar remote controls, alarm clocks, and streaming video clients. And all that was just using regular Android versions. But I could imagine using an old phone as a wireless print server, or something. That would be pretty cool.

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Re:Samsung Made a Bitcoin Mining Rig Out of Old Galaxy S5s by PascLeRasc on Friday October 27, 2017 @07:05PM (#15572960)

Samsung phones especially are great as a universal remote with their IR blasters.

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Re:Samsung Made a Bitcoin Mining Rig Out of Old Galaxy S5s by em3rgent0rdr on Saturday October 28, 2017 @03:31AM (#15574330)

I think more importantly they make for great private home servers for the distributed web so we can get away from centralized web services.

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