NASA’s Apollo Computer Mined Bitcoin in 2019 But Today It Would Take Forever
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Content	NASA’s Apollo Guidance Computer was reportedly used in a 2019 experiment to mine Bitcoin, but its extremely limited processing power made the effort effectively impractical. At the time, the computer would have required an estimated 10¹¹⁶ years to find a valid block, illustrating the vast gap between historic computing systems and modern mining hardware. The comparison underscores Bitcoin’s rising mining difficulty and the industrial scale, specialized equipment, and energy required to compete o...	content
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NASA’s Apollo Computer Mined Bitcoin in 2019 But Today It Would Take Forever

Sep 20, 2026

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NASA’s Apollo Guidance Computer was reportedly used in a 2019 experiment to mine Bitcoin, but its extremely limited processing power made the effort effectively impractical. At the time, the computer would have required an estimated 10¹¹⁶ years to find a valid block, illustrating the vast gap between historic computing systems and modern mining hardware. The comparison underscores Bitcoin’s rising mining difficulty and the industrial scale, specialized equipment, and energy required to compete on the network today.

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