NASA’s Apollo Computer Mined Bitcoin in 2019 But Today It Would Take Forever
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The navigation computer associated with the Apollo missions managed to calculate Bitcoin hashes in 2019, although it never got a reward. Faced with a network that in September 2026 operated above 900 EH/s, that demonstration shows why modern mining requires an industrial scale.
NASA's Apollo Computer Mined Bitcoin in 2019 But Today It Would Take Forever
The computer that guided Apollo astronauts to the moon once ran Bitcoin’s mining math, and a viral clip of the stunt is lighting up crypto timelines again this week. The Clip That Came Back Crypto media outlets circulated the story again earlier today, explaining that computer scientist Ken Shirriff was able to program an Apollo […]
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The computer that guided Apollo astronauts to the moon once ran Bitcoin’s mining math, and a viral clip of the stunt is lighting up crypto timelines again this week. The Clip That Came Back Crypto media outlets circulated the story again earlier today, explaining that computer scientist Ken...
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