Bitcoin Mining on Mac Classic

[croissantking]

Infinite time? you just specified a finite amount of time, 1 trillion years

They said that it would take 1 trillion years at current rates, but because the rate keeps changing it would take forever.

 

[CC_333]

If/when it becomes developed enough, quantum computers would probably do it in a few minutes at most.

c

 

[jjuran]

LOL, you guys are such hater nerds!

It speaks highly of this community that you got as warm and friendly a response as you did.

I don't know how to code, yes its LLM driven, I thought it would be fun and funny to make a program that can actually mine bitcoin on my mac classic I just restored...

That would be quite funny, if you had actually made it. That you had gone to such effort for something that nominally works but is essentially useless would be quite entertaining.

As a Bitcoin enthusiast, I expect you're familiar with proof of work. That's what gives you cred (as in actual credits) on the blockchain, and it also works (as credibility) in real life.

I think if you start out with the thought in your head of, "oh man! that's so funny and awesome" and then judge the project based upon that starting point its easier to evaluate it as intended; a useless and fun exercise in futility...

Unfortunately, it appears your project has been upstaged by your initial misrepresentation of it.

I did have a look at the "Hand-tuned SHA-256 implementation", though (leading me to wonder whose hand was involved, if not yours), and I'd like to call attention to this gem:

; Optimized 32-bit rotate right
; Input: D0.L = value, D1.W = shift count
; Output: D0.L = rotated value
; Uses: D2, D3, D4 (caller saved)
ROTR_ASM:
        MOVEM.L D2-D4,-(SP)     ; Save registers we use
        MOVE.L  D0,D2           ; Copy value to D2
        MOVE.W  D1,D3           ; Get shift count
        ANDI.W  #31,D3          ; Mask to 0-31
        LSR.L   D3,D0           ; Shift right by n
        MOVEQ   #32,D4          ; Load 32
        SUB.W   D3,D4           ; Calculate 32-n
        LSL.L   D4,D2           ; Shift left by (32-n)
        OR.L    D2,D0           ; Combine both parts
        MOVEM.L (SP)+,D2-D4     ; Restore registers
        RTS

Whether this can be optimized further is left as an exercise for the reader.

 

[dbinreno]

Thank you, I guess, as well... hahaha... I get it, if i had an ego, I too would think these are all personal slights and attacks. I just don't see it that way. What would you like to contribute/see done in the future? I am always up for some constructive suggestions.

Credentialism is kinda moot here, I already said I don't know how to code.. so all the egg sucking nerds are basically punching down on someone who doesn't know anything much like a child who has an exciting idea and tries to awkwardly execute it. So is that a way you can understand my position?

Maybe instead of stubbornly insisting other people are wrong about something, you could simply accept their viewpoint as their own, and be quiet about it. From here, it looks as though you posted a thing you told an AI to generate and then invited everyone to Test “your” software with no detail details about what it does or how it does it.

As a software QA tester, the idea of someone vibe coding a thing and sticking it out on the Internet for everybody else to Test is sort of… yeah, that’s not how you do that in a day and age when every binary could potentially hijack your network among other things.

Your “nothing is real, everything is vibes” attitude is a bit antithetical to most of what this community seems interested in. I think it’s an attitude you might tone down.

I get where you’re going with this, but your approach could use some work.