![]() ![]() ![]() It doesn’t like your USB stuff and you won’t like it Even using the recommended, powered USB hub, the Pi will have problems with it. Turns out that the Raspberry Pi has the shittiest USB connection ever known by man. I have some Raspberry Pis model B laying around doing nothing, so why not use them? Those can do 65gh/s, but their power draw is not to be neglected. You would be surprised by how many miners go horribly bad with the Pi.Īnother thing I am going to try with is the Antminer U3: Those pack a more serious punch (for last year’s standards), that I just happened to have here. The fact that they play nice with the Raspberry Pi is a plus. There are much faster ones, but those are quite stable, and most importantly, they don’t require active cooling, like the Bi Fury, for example. There are dozens of other models on the market. I bought four of them on eBay por 12 bucks – not bad. So, for the sake of this experiment, I am going with the Antminer U2. You can buy something around ten times faster than that for 10 dollars on eBay. Good thing is, you can have some quite powerful miners for cheap today – they are powerful compared to the aforementioned Block Erupters, that is. One of these Block Erupters won’t make you rich. I am doing this because I want to learn, not because I want to make money out of it. This is a hobby and should be considered as that. DISCLAIMER: the setup portrayed here will probably never give me any money. The increasing difficulty in hashing means that you need WAY more than that to make a dent. A 330mh/s Block Erupter won’t consume much power, but won’t make any dough either. See, in order to have some meaningful Bitcoin income, you need some hashing power. While the Raspberry Pi itself is a big on the hungry side of power consumption regarding this kind of machine, it’s nothing really absurd. Now, mining Bitcoins on a Raspberry Pi under solar power? Not so easy. Powering Raspberry Pis with solar panels? Easy peasy! There are tutorials, software tools, videos even portable kits. Powering stuff with solar panels, even less. Minepeon is a great piece of software to mine bitcoins on the original Raspberry Pi which I have used for a long time. Mining for Bitcoins is nothing new heck, I’ve done it for years and made quite a profit from it. Update: Here are the links for Part1 (this one), Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and how to run the Pi from a battery ![]()
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