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My pal Charles Mangin (@option8) saw a chance to do something great for the environment, and his experiment is going extremely well: All those Apple II machines, just sitting around... destined for landfills if we don't do something to get them back into the computer workforce!
So, Charles has created 8BITCOIN, a bitcoin miner for the Apple II. The numbers are, of course, still out - it appears that it will take a few trillion years for this grand machine to get an actual BTC, but it's doing its absolute best and that's all we can ask for.
I'm sure you're curious, so the 8BITCOIN application (8BTC for Short) is now streaming LIVE on Twitch: twitch.tv/8btc - get in there and watch history and riches being made... very slowly.
If you have an Apple II lying around, you can get mining as well - naturally Charles has released the floppy disk image for you. github.com/option8/8BITCO…
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