Cryptocurrency: Mining with the Apollo Guidance Computer

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Sat Aug 17 09:50:51 PDT 2019


http://www.righto.com/2019/07/bitcoin-mining-on-apollo-guidance.html

We've been restoring an Apollo Guidance Computer1. Now that we have
the world's only working AGC, I decided to write some code for it.
Trying to mine Bitcoin on this 1960s computer seemed both pointless
and anachronistic, so I had to give it a shot. Implementing the
Bitcoin hash algorithm in assembly code on this 15-bit computer was
challenging, but I got it to work...


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