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Title: Raspberry Pi computer and Bitcoin Post by: jim618 on January 06, 2012, 02:17:25 PM Gary Rowe and I were discussing recently what Bitcoin software you could run on a Raspberry Pi computer:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/ (http://www.raspberrypi.org/) The Model B has: + 700 MHz ARM system on a chip + 256 MB ram + 2 x USB + Ethernet + WiFi + SD card socket + Linux + Cost = $35 We think we could run MultiBit with a Java runtime on the SD card. Or a complete copy of the MultiBitMerchant software we are writing (with DynDNS entry settings.). They would not necessarily run quickly, but we think they would run. Have a think as to whether your software would run on it and post if you think it would! :-) Title: Re: Raspberry Pi computer and Bitcoin Post by: garyrowe on January 06, 2012, 05:12:45 PM Since it has such a low power consumption and is essentially able to run quietly in the background, it could run bitcoind and act as a full node in the network. That would benefit everyone.
Title: Re: Raspberry Pi computer and Bitcoin Post by: ovidiusoft on January 06, 2012, 11:34:31 PM Since it has such a low power consumption and is essentially able to run quietly in the background, it could run bitcoind and act as a full node in the network. That would benefit everyone. Unfortunately, parsing the blockchain is resource intensive - both CPU and I/O. Neither of these are the strong points for Raspberry Pi. However, a thin client like Electrum and a touchscreen (or 5-7 inch LCD + a small numeric keyboard) would make it a very nice POS solution. Title: Re: Raspberry Pi computer and Bitcoin Post by: grue on January 07, 2012, 01:13:50 AM Unfortunately, parsing the blockchain is resource intensive - both CPU and I/O. Neither of these are the strong points for Raspberry Pi. However, a thin client like Electrum and a touchscreen (or 5-7 inch LCD + a small numeric keyboard) would make it a very nice POS solution. Only during blockchain download/verification, right? for me, it's sitting at 0% cpu utilization.Title: Re: Raspberry Pi computer and Bitcoin Post by: ovidiusoft on January 07, 2012, 10:22:46 AM Only during blockchain download/verification, right? for me, it's sitting at 0% cpu utilization. Also on transaction propagation. A dedicated node will maintain tens of connections to the other nodes (my own btcnode.novit.ro has ~150 connections all the time, I've seen as high as 400). At that point, this becomes an issue for a small device like the Pi. I'm not saying it's not doable, but someone running a dedicated node might want to use a different platform and use the Pi for something else.Title: Re: Raspberry Pi computer and Bitcoin Post by: mila on January 07, 2012, 09:19:03 PM could it be used with FPGA miners?
kind of monitoring them and making sure they're not idling that would be a killer combination (power consumption point of view) Title: Re: Raspberry Pi computer and Bitcoin Post by: ovidiusoft on January 07, 2012, 10:47:23 PM could it be used with FPGA miners? I think so. The whole setup could even be powered by solar power :) That would be very cool!kind of monitoring them and making sure they're not idling that would be a killer combination (power consumption point of view) Title: Re: Raspberry Pi computer and Bitcoin Post by: Mushroomized on January 08, 2012, 02:21:56 AM could it be used with FPGA miners? I think so. The whole setup could even be powered by solar power :) That would be very cool!kind of monitoring them and making sure they're not idling that would be a killer combination (power consumption point of view) Title: Re: Raspberry Pi computer and Bitcoin Post by: Vernon715 on February 26, 2012, 05:21:09 PM Sounds pretty cool.
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