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PS5 is so hard to get, now its being used for eth mining. A simple brainlet like myself wants to think that this is not going to be efficient and sort of just a gimick, but I don’t really know for sure. I also want to think if you were really mining eth, you wouldn’t just cop a PS5 to do it, but it is fairly cheap. With everyone wanting want this seems absurd, but logical.
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Edit – link – [https://www.spieltimes.com/news/buying-a-ps5-might-get-even-tougher-in-2021-as-its-now-being-used-for-crypto-mining/](https://www.spieltimes.com/news/buying-a-ps5-might-get-even-tougher-in-2021-as-its-now-being-used-for-crypto-mining/)
Edit 2 – apparently I got played and it’s a fake. You can scan the QR code and translate from Chinese to see that this software doesn’t exist. Sorry yo.
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The screenshot shows 98 MH/s. I believe that’s similar to a 3080.
If that’s true and the screenshot isn’t a fake, I could see people setting up huge clusters of PS5s for mining in the near future.
How is that even profitable?
This is bullshit.
The PS5 has not been hacked yet.
At least they could have made the hash rate believable. 98MH/s is almost as fast as the 3090 which is 120MH/s. PS5 $600, 3090 $2k. This would mean the ps5 has the second fastest hash rate and the cheapest price.
Mining eth with a ps5? This is the first time i hear it.
People used to make super computers out of ps3s so it’s not that surprising to see this
Scalping a PS5 surely is more profitable than mining right now
Source ?
No, it’s a joke. Just scan the QR code and translate the Chinese sentence.
I’m really interested to see how this is done, do you have a source? Surely the new Xbox would also be in the same boat
PS5 go brrr
Not sure that’s going to have a real impact on PS5’s – It’s a hacked system at nearly double native million hashes per second.
Cool nevertheless, but not something I’d think that would impact sales. (Or something I’d risk on a new PS5 tbh..)
This won’t end well….. So Gamers Nexus did a video a few months ago showing that some of the memory silicon on the SOC of the PS5 was reaching heat levels upwards of 95°C which could be problematic down the road.
If people are running these things 24/7 for the sole purpose of mining, they’ll be fried within a year, mark my words…
No way anyone smart is using that thing to mine.
Kids who wanted a Playstation for Christmas. Honestly this is shitty PR for crypto. People will hate it even more
I heard it for the first time. What’s its mining power?
First time I’ve heard about this. Would like to see how it’s done
So now the PS5 becomes an investment which gives you returns in fun AND ethereum?! The future is here, and I like it, I like it a lot!!
I mean.. why not? I guess?
I wonder if most tech in the near future will have a “mining” switch when you’re not using it and it just mines in it’s downtime.
Not sure if the Xbox one S has better security or underperforms🤔
Game console for mining?? That’s genius, I never thought of that, but is it actually efficient?
Wow… that may further impact the supply… interesting, thanks for the link
Yeah, I can hear that ps5 fan from across the street.
98.76 MH/s on a PS5?
They also report about the M1 chip in the MacBook Air. I wonder what kind of hash rate that has.
I’m starting to doubt whether the PS5 will be even available in my country…. can we pre-order the PS6 already?
Imagine a PS5 crypto farm wtf
You miners are wild af.
It’s fake: [https://www.resetera.com/threads/gadget-tendency-playstation-5-has-been-adapted-for-mining-up-fake.386711/](https://www.resetera.com/threads/gadget-tendency-playstation-5-has-been-adapted-for-mining-up-fake.386711/)
Yo how the f is it able to produce 98 MH/s ?!
I didn’t think the PS5 was THAT powerful. Those are 3080 numbers.