Title: Has someone made experience with btc mining with GekkoScience and raspberry pi? Post by: dissi_xD on March 11, 2024, 09:53:26 AM Hi,
i'm looking for someone who made some experience with btc mining using a raspberry pi and gekkoscience's usb miner. Since i'm playing witht he thought to made susch a setup for myself i got some questions: - What would be better: a) raspberry pi 4b with 4gb or 8gb ram b) the new rapsberry pi 5 with 4 or 8 gb ram Does it make a great difference on which rapsberry to use or only on which usb miner? - what would be the ROI? Let's assume i would buy a pi 5 (about 100€), usb hub, a solar panel and 4 of those usb miners (one costs ~200€) - how long live such usb miners? (Livespan) like i don't have the money to buy 4 of them in once but i could buy monthly one new, but i don't want that when i buy a new one to "upgrade" my system i only get to "replace" my system since the last one just died. - cooling system: what would you recommend? Is there also some rpi case for outside since i would use it with solarpower? - what would be best practice to do this? Thanks, dissi :) Title: Re: Has someone made experience with btc mining with GekkoScience and raspberry pi? Post by: ABCbits on March 11, 2024, 10:17:01 AM - What would be better: a) raspberry pi 4b with 4gb or 8gb ram b) the new rapsberry pi 5 with 4 or 8 gb ram Does it make a great difference on which rapsberry to use or only on which usb miner? RAM matters little when mining on pool. But some people report Pi 5 has more stable power supply/voltage. - what would be the ROI? Let's assume i would buy a pi 5 (about 100€), usb hub, a solar panel and 4 of those usb miners (one costs ~200€) Nobody knows since you don't mention your electricity rate and which GekkoScience you plan to buy (along with it's price). Title: Re: Has someone made experience with btc mining with GekkoScience and raspberry pi? Post by: dissi_xD on March 11, 2024, 11:54:42 AM - What would be better: a) raspberry pi 4b with 4gb or 8gb ram b) the new rapsberry pi 5 with 4 or 8 gb ram Does it make a great difference on which rapsberry to use or only on which usb miner? RAM matters little when mining on pool. But some people report Pi 5 has more stable power supply/voltage. - what would be the ROI? Let's assume i would buy a pi 5 (about 100€), usb hub, a solar panel and 4 of those usb miners (one costs ~200€) Nobody knows since you don't mention your electricity rate and which GekkoScience you plan to buy (along with it's price). Thanks for your answer :) yes i know, i gave little details. But now i've changed my plan a bit. Instead of the raspberry pi i would use a Gekkoscience Smarthub - 11 Ports (https://bitcoinmerch.com/it/products/gekkoscience-smarthub?variant=44232608743654) with 9 usb just attached. For electricity i would buy a solarpanel with batterie (costs about 1.700€ at leats what i found) (https://www.amazon.de/ALLPOWERS-S2000-Solargenerator-Stromspeicher-mit/dp/B0BTLTYR6R/ref=mp_s_a_1_14?crid=24S37KMMW5TO0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.39IvVNUln2Q68D-PkwBjaW5tLl63rBpcYW3U-r301Y1QxEugvvzOR-Ty3nh6eidREBthts0tLiDl5WuUyemVnQzW7BvRqpSRM7mYKVkKCwtAe8LRwSb0I9pHeeAv0M53QC2k9vLSlHI0zxfOvAOBGCRQZKrY6t8_gOG6ga6CtxVuZzzXeaUA75UBArNWNHSLDvCV-RqdqupvekqJcB9Y-w.Gg2lJJKto-j_PNzvo1ybHUM_nB1iBDwqTTR3VNTuiwI&dib_tag=se&keywords=powerbank+400+watt+input+200+watt+output&qid=1710157103&sprefix=powerbank+400watt+input+200+watt+output%2Caps%2C194&sr=8-14) With this usb hub i would get around 2,6 tb/h. Since i'm new to this, is this a good bandwith? And how much would be the roi? Title: Re: Has someone made experience with btc mining with GekkoScience and raspberry pi? Post by: NotFuzzyWarm on March 11, 2024, 07:52:47 PM ::) Um how about reading the existing thread about it? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5355470.0
That thread will have ALL the answers you need.... Title: Re: Has someone made experience with btc mining with GekkoScience and raspberry pi? Post by: ABCbits on March 12, 2024, 09:21:05 AM --snip-- Thanks for your answer :) yes i know, i gave little details. But now i've changed my plan a bit. Instead of the raspberry pi i would use a Gekkoscience Smarthub - 11 Ports (https://bitcoinmerch.com/it/products/gekkoscience-smarthub?variant=44232608743654) with 9 usb just attached. For electricity i would buy a solarpanel with batterie (costs about 1.700€ at leats what i found) (https://www.amazon.de/ALLPOWERS-S2000-Solargenerator-Stromspeicher-mit/dp/B0BTLTYR6R/ref=mp_s_a_1_14?crid=24S37KMMW5TO0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.39IvVNUln2Q68D-PkwBjaW5tLl63rBpcYW3U-r301Y1QxEugvvzOR-Ty3nh6eidREBthts0tLiDl5WuUyemVnQzW7BvRqpSRM7mYKVkKCwtAe8LRwSb0I9pHeeAv0M53QC2k9vLSlHI0zxfOvAOBGCRQZKrY6t8_gOG6ga6CtxVuZzzXeaUA75UBArNWNHSLDvCV-RqdqupvekqJcB9Y-w.Gg2lJJKto-j_PNzvo1ybHUM_nB1iBDwqTTR3VNTuiwI&dib_tag=se&keywords=powerbank+400+watt+input+200+watt+output&qid=1710157103&sprefix=powerbank+400watt+input+200+watt+output%2Caps%2C194&sr=8-14)With this usb hub i would get around 2,6 tb/h. Since i'm new to this, is this a good bandwith? And how much would be the roi? Here's very rough calculation, Total initial cost: $3650 Gekkoscience Smarthub - 11 Ports With 9 Compac F and 9 fans 2.6 TH/s - $1800. ALLPOWERS S2000 - 1700€ or about $1850. Using https://buybitcoinworldwide.com/mining/calculator/ (https://buybitcoinworldwide.com/mining/calculator/) which consider rising difficulty, it state you can obtain $247/year. But it doesn't consider halving on next month, so you probably can obtain $123.5/year. At this point, i believe it's safe to assume ROI will never happen. And if you're willing to spend $3.6K in first place, you might as well as buy regular-sized ASIC (e.g. S21). |