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Re:Mining Bitcoin on an Apple II by sehugg on Saturday August 03, 2019 @06:56PM (#20603242)
Ultra-low-power MCUs are ~80 μA/MHz, so yes, you can get there. Bitcoin doesn't require a lot of RAM, which helps power consumption significantly.
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Re:Mining Bitcoin on an Apple II by Veedrac on Saturday August 03, 2019 @10:15PM (#20604054)
Worth noting that even the lowest power microcontroller will presumably run circles around an old 8-bit architecture.
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