Samsung Made a Bitcoin Mining Rig Out of Old Galaxy S5s

Re:Samsung Made a Bitcoin Mining Rig Out of Old Galaxy S5s by mplewis on Friday October 27, 2017 @05:48PM (#15572490)

Is the author conflating "cryptocurrency" with "Bitcoin?" These devices' CPUs might be able to mine Monero, but definitely will not be able to mine Bitcoin without losing money on power.

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Re:Samsung Made a Bitcoin Mining Rig Out of Old Galaxy S5s by freehunter on Friday October 27, 2017 @05:55PM (#15572531)

I don't think Samsung is worried about how much money they'll make from it, rather that is's a cool engineering project.

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Re:Samsung Made a Bitcoin Mining Rig Out of Old Galaxy S5s by julian_1 on Friday October 27, 2017 @06:50PM (#15572862)

Not sure anyone is conflating ability to mine, with ability to profitably mine.

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Re:Samsung Made a Bitcoin Mining Rig Out of Old Galaxy S5s by bkcreate on Friday October 27, 2017 @06:20PM (#15572664)

I don't think making money was the goal of this project, more that they wanted proof of concept to show off.

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