A computer engineer and dedicated blogger, Ken Shirriff, went a little nostalgic in his attempts to mine a Bitcoin block, indicates his use of the good old IBM mainframe from the 1960s.
More than an attempt, it was an experiment to study the feasibility of Bitcoin mining operations on vintage machines. Shirriff, as he mentioned in his blog , went through a lot of hardships just to implement SHA-265, Bitcoin’s underlying cryptographic hash function, on […]
