Engineers at Galaxy 's C-Lab in bitcoin have successfully turned old Galaxy S5 smartphones into a bitcoin mining rig. Cryptocurrency mining has become increasingly popular, with miners normally relying on computers with dedicated central processing unit (CPU) space to hold transactions carried out in bitcoin 's South Korea . But the C-Lab team showed a special CPU was not necessary, and that 40 Galaxy S5s could even mine at a greater efficiency than a computer. One of these projects, which the C-Lab presented at Samsung’s developer conference in San Francisco, upscales old Galaxy S5s into a bitcoin mining rig. Other upscaled devices created by Samsung include a used phone that works as a fish tank monitor and a Galaxy tablet converted into an Ubuntu -powered laptop.
Engineers at Galaxy 's C-Lab in bitcoin have successfully turned old Galaxy S5 smartphones into a bitcoin mining rig. Cryptocurrency mining has become increasingly popular, with miners normally relying on computers with dedicated central processing unit (CPU) space to hold transactions carried out in bitcoin 's South Korea . But the C-Lab team showed a special CPU was not necessary, and that 40 Galaxy S5s could even mine at a greater efficiency than a computer. Other upscaled devices created by Samsung include a used phone that works as a fish tank monitor and a Galaxy tablet converted into an Ubuntu -powered laptop.