I did a similar stunt with an old PowerBook where I electrically disabled the WiFi/Bluetooth so it wouldn’t be online unless I plugged in Ethernet, generated keys, and played around with mining. This was back in 2010 when this was all just basically toys for fun. I also encrypted it all with FileVault.

Then I forgot my pass phrase and have never been able to recover any of it. I don’t even know how many btc were mined/lost.

Before anyone asks, no, there aren’t any usable exploits / vulns found for the encryption methods used. And from what I can tell the coins in question have still sat frozen for going in a decade and a half now. I suspect many other hackers did the same thing…

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skinfaxi 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Apparently legacy filevault can be attacked offline with tools like john the ripper.

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weird-eye-issue 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If you were attempting to mine Bitcoin with a PowerBook I can confidently say you mined zero Bitcoin

Edit: I thought he was talking about 2012 but yeah in 2010 CPU mining was still a thing

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skinfaxi 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Wasn't the difficulty like 6 orders of magnitude easier back then?

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		Okay maybe in 2010 you could use a CPU but even by 2012 it was entirely dominated by GPUs and I think even dedicated hardware was coming out around that time or soon after

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WarmWash 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

ehhh you could CPU mine in the early months IIRC. The issue was that 50BTC wasn't even worth a penny back then lol