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I'm not sure why this was downvoted, but perhaps some context may help.

Here nayuki linked a few posts made by kens about mining Bitcoins using weird old hardware (if you classify pencil and paper as hardware). A Gameboy is perhaps not vintage enough for kens :) .

Old HN discussion of these links:

* Pencil and Paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8380110 (653 points, 104 comments) and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15950599 (642 points, 158 comments)

* Apollo computer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20383561 (217 points, 107 comments)

* IBM 1401: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9593412 (162 points, 34 comments)




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