Samsung Made a Bitcoin Mining Rig Out of Old Galaxy S5s

Re:Samsung Made a Bitcoin Mining Rig Out of Old Galaxy S5s by PascLeRasc on Friday October 27, 2017 @07:05PM (#15572954)

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.

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Re:Samsung Made a Bitcoin Mining Rig Out of Old Galaxy S5s by CyberDildonics on Friday October 27, 2017 @09:48PM (#15573565)

But the post you are replying to is showing that they literally can't be used for this.

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Re:Samsung Made a Bitcoin Mining Rig Out of Old Galaxy S5s by colejohnson66 on Friday October 27, 2017 @10:27PM (#15573671)

I think they quite literally can be used that way. Practically? No.

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Re:Samsung Made a Bitcoin Mining Rig Out of Old Galaxy S5s by dTal on Sunday October 29, 2017 @09:30AM (#15579212)

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-...

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Re:Samsung Made a Bitcoin Mining Rig Out of Old Galaxy S5s by CyberDildonics on Friday October 27, 2017 @10:29PM (#15573677)

What does that prove then? That they can do computations?

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