Japanese netizens develop human mining machine

The price of Bitcoin has been soaring again and again, and it is currently the most popular virtual currency. Therefore, many people are looking for places with cheaper electricity to open mining farms. However, Bitcoin mining is actually very expensive, and some manufacturers have launched "mining machines" specifically for mining. When China was suppressing Bitcoin a while ago, many mining farms closed down and sold a large number of mining machines.

Generally speaking, a Bitcoin mining machine consists of a motherboard with many graphics cards or mining cards plugged in. Both AMD and NVIDIA have launched graphics cards for mining needs. Later, someone developed a dedicated mining chip (ASIC) for Bitcoin, which is more efficient than graphics cards. Therefore, the current "mining machine" no longer uses graphics cards, but is equipped with mining chips.

However, no matter what, using electricity to mine Bitcoin is not environmentally friendly. So a Japanese netizen thought of developing a "man-powered mining" mining machine.

This @tnayuki netizen is not mining Bitcoin, but Monacoin, which is very popular in Japan. The so-called human mining is actually using the electricity generated by human power to supply the power required by the mining machine. In simple terms, it is the so-called human power generation.

Sunshine 発电で仮 Thinking currency をマイニングするコンテナが topic ですが,こちらはぼくが作った「Human power is the currency of the machine」. The charger can be recharged by hand, and the electric current can be started by hand, and the recharger can be recharged in 1 time.とだいたい0.002円ぐらいの仮 Thinking of Currency を Mining することができます. pic.twitter.com/2eJ4cHOX9Z

— tnayuki@TGS 9-A45 (@tnayuki) November 2, 2017

The device he designed is a hand-cranked generator. Then the generator is connected to a circuit board equipped with a mining APP to perform manual mining.

Others use special mining chips and high-end graphics cards to mine Bitcoin, and the power required is of course amazing. How much can you mine with this manual mining method? According to his calculations, if you continue to mine manually for one hour, that is, you continue to turn the generator by hand for one hour, you can get about 0.002 yen of Monacoin, which is about 0.0005 yuan.

In other words, you have to work 10,000 hours, without sleep, to earn 5 dollars, which is not enough to buy even a can of Yakult.

Although it seems to be a super useless invention, as a maker, I create inventions for fun. @tnayuki has also tried to use a Linux-based Raspberry Pi board connected to hand power to make the single-board computer operate.