{"id":659730,"date":"2026-09-20T09:30:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T09:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=848805"},"modified":"2026-09-20T09:30:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T09:30:47","slug":"nasas-apollo-computer-mined-bitcoin-in-2019-but-today-it-would-take-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/20\/nasas-apollo-computer-mined-bitcoin-in-2019-but-today-it-would-take-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Apollo Computer Mined Bitcoin in 2019 But Today It Would Take Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/nasas-apollo-computer-mined-bitcoin-in-2019-but-today-it-would-take-forever-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"NASA&#039;s Apollo Guidance Computer\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>The computer that guided Apollo astronauts to the moon once ran Bitcoin&#8217;s mining math, and a viral clip of the stunt is lighting up crypto timelines again this week. The Clip That Came Back Crypto media outlets circulated the story again earlier today, explaining that computer scientist Ken Shirriff was able to program an Apollo [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The computer that guided Apollo astronauts to the moon once ran Bitcoin&#8217;s mining math, and a viral clip of the stunt is lighting up crypto timelines again this week. The Clip That Came Back Crypto media outlets circulated the story again earlier today, explaining that computer scientist Ken Shirriff was able to program an Apollo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":659731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-659730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-mining"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}