Bitcoin mining on a calculator? :)

[Les Bell]

(05-25-2015 03:11 AM)Dave Britten Wrote:  Yeah, you definitely aren't going to do any practical Bitcoin mining on any of them, but technically you could do it for purely academic reasons.

The stumbling block is that the hash needs to be signed with the miner's private key - and an RSA algorithm just fits in the 16C, with no memory left over (from memory - my 16C decided to throw a fit and clear memory not long after I'd keyed the whole thing in, so that I didn't really get a chance to play with it). The SHA256 won't fit at the same time, but both algorithms are required. That rather rules it out, unfortunately.

Now, if the 16C only had a very long tape which it could write and read back . . .

The RPL machines look like much better candidates in that light - especially with SysRPL.