Samsung has just turned 40 Galaxy S5 smartphones into a large Bitcoin mining machine
Well, it appears that you only need eight old Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphones to be able to mine Bitcoin the way a desktop computer does. In fact, the smartphones are more power-efficient at Bitcoin mining than a similarly powerful PC, Samsung claims.
For that purpose, Samsung built a Bitcoin mining rig comprising of 40 Galaxy S5 smartphones. The entire mining machine runs on a new operating system specially developed by Samsung for this “green” project.
So, yes, there seems to be life after death even for old smartphones that have reached their EOL (end of life) status.
source: Motherboard
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