A computer scientist just ran $BTC mining on a restored Apollo Guidance Computer — the same tech that got us to the Moon.
70 pounds. 4KB of RAM. 1960s hardware.
He coded it to run SHA-256. One hash? 5.15 seconds. Double hash for Bitcoin? 10.3 seconds.
At 2019 difficulty, finding a block would take roughly a million times the age of the universe.
Obviously it never mined a real block. But the fact that Moon mission tech can technically run Bitcoin's proof-of-work is wild.
This is what decentralization looks like at the protocol level — even ancient hardware can verify the math. Just... extremely slowly.
70 pounds. 4KB of RAM. 1960s hardware.
He coded it to run SHA-256. One hash? 5.15 seconds. Double hash for Bitcoin? 10.3 seconds.
At 2019 difficulty, finding a block would take roughly a million times the age of the universe.
Obviously it never mined a real block. But the fact that Moon mission tech can technically run Bitcoin's proof-of-work is wild.
This is what decentralization looks like at the protocol level — even ancient hardware can verify the math. Just... extremely slowly.
