Quote from: Botts on February 26, 2021, 05:41:58 PM

Quote from: btcxz on February 18, 2021, 08:20:39 PM

1. Series X is protected against mining.
2. There's no cryptocurrency miner that can mine on Xbox/PS
3. I don't have one of these consoles, but like laptops, it probably doesn't have enough cooling to substain the 100% GPU use 24/7.
4. You could just buy a new GPU for the same price and mine with it and earn much more (And with drastically less risk)

Is there a whitepaper on the Series X's protection against mining? I'd be interested in tearing into that a bit. Is it just the ID@Xbox requirement for full access?
There is no miner available yet, but we should be able to send OpenCL commands to the Xbox Series X. Ethminer may just need a recompile to UWP tagged as "Game".
There is a really good chance the Series X can cool at 100% GPU use 24/7. It's cooled exceptionally well for its size. It cools far better than most SFF builds which many are using happily for mining.

A couple weeks ago you could hav bought a new GPU for the same price, but certainly not right now! The Xbox is also likely tempting as it is an "extra" GPU we have in our homes that sits idle 95% of the time.

Any progress on this? I'm thinking of trying this out ...