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Title: Raspberry Pi / Arm Post by: jamesmd on September 22, 2012, 08:53:56 PM Ive already posted ths in the newbie section but its more appropriate here :)
Well if your mining for a profit this is pointless. But if your doing it for the fun then its worth a try and hey every h/s counts. Since I got my pi in June I have always been curious to see how well it would mine bitcoins, but there is no mining software out there compiled for arm. Today I had very little to do so I decided to compile cpu miner for the PI. It does quite well considering got 200kh/s out of it once it was overclocked. Not bad for a arm based device but still nothing compared to a x86/64 cpu. Below are the commands used to compile cpu miner for the pi. This is based on the fact that your running a Debian based package. apt-get install gcc gcc-4.5 g++ g++-4.5 libstdc++6-4.5-dev libpcre3-dev libcurl3-dev make less apt-get install ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk lib32gcc1 lib32stdc++6 lib32z1 libc6-i386 mkdir bitcoind cd bitcoind wget http://yyz.us/bitcoin/cpuminer-1.0.2.tar.gz tar -zxvf cpuminer-1.0.2.tar.gz cd cpuminer-1.0.2 ./configure make ./minerd --url http://yourpool.x:8332 --userpass yourusername:yourpassword For more detailed instructions please see my youtube tutorial (Moderator pleas remove this if it is not allowed) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrdzam7voOg Title: Re: Raspberry Pi / Arm Post by: purelithium on September 23, 2012, 12:43:42 PM You might do better to mine Litecoin on it? Or maybe use it as a headless host for some FPGA boards running CGminer or BFGMiner.
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi / Arm Post by: maqifrnswa on September 24, 2012, 01:06:09 PM You might do better to mine Litecoin on it? Or maybe use it as a headless host for some FPGA boards running CGminer or BFGMiner. just got an RPI to do this - has anyone tried running bitcoind -daemon along with p2pool yet (can it handle it without lag so it can be a headless host?) Have you tried compiling your own bitcoind or use Raspbian's binary? |