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MyDrivers says that now it would be enough to have a game console to produce a virtual currency. Chinese cryptocurrency miners have succeeded in converting the PlayStation 5 to the Ether Factory.
Chinese miners “learned” For a playstation 5 game console To build ether (ETH), the cryptocurrency of the Ethereum protocol, reports Sony site MyDrivers, bypassing Sony’s software limitations.
The AMD Radeon GPU, with the RDNA 2 architecture, has proven to be good enough to remove wings. According to the mining-friendly console site, it was able to achieve a hash rate of 98.76 MHz per second (mh / s) with only 211W of power consumption.
Looking from a screenshot posted by MyDrivers, the console is also overclocked to push it to the maximum, as its “native” performance should be equal to 50 MH / s with the AMD Radon RX 5700 XT.
What risk?
However, experts warn against my cryptocurrency efforts using game consoles. Subject to increased loads, they risk breaking and this will not be covered by the warranty.
“Since the beginning of the current cryptocurrency boom, graphics cards have gone out of stock, and consoles like the PS5 will clearly become the target of miners. If it was indeed hacked it would be PS5 console is more difficult to acquire In the future, “Mydrivers” ended.