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Title: Was mining with the Raspberry Pi ever profitable? Post by: InMyselfITrust on November 03, 2014, 07:51:03 PM Obviously now it would not be but I wonder a few years ago was it ever feasible?
Title: Re: Was mining with the Raspberry Pi ever profitable? Post by: seriouscoin on November 03, 2014, 09:06:17 PM Obviously now it would not be but I wonder a few years ago was it ever feasible? No Never Ever. Time to move long, nothing to see here Title: Re: Was mining with the Raspberry Pi ever profitable? Post by: ranochigo on November 04, 2014, 08:23:56 AM Obviously now it would not be but I wonder a few years ago was it ever feasible? If you're saying hooking it up with a high end ASIC miner, it would be most probably profitable. Raspberry Pi is a machine which uses only 3-5watts. The core is a 700 MHz Low Power ARM1176JZ-F Applications Processor. If you try to mine it, the temperature would definitely go above 100 degrees Celsius with no fan and cooling. You would most probably just damage the CPU.Title: Re: Was mining with the Raspberry Pi ever profitable? Post by: notlist3d on November 04, 2014, 01:14:09 PM It was a while ago but they did have a few block erupters on a raspberry pi. I'm not sure if they ROI'ed on them or not. Personlly i ran all of them on windows as I was using a lot more then the 5 or so they had with it.
Title: Re: Was mining with the Raspberry Pi ever profitable? Post by: ChuckBuck on November 04, 2014, 03:33:04 PM No, mining was never profitable with a RaspPi. Only used as a host PC to control ASICs, but never as a CPU/GPU miner.
The heat alone trying to mine with that puny CPU would fry the little guy. Title: Re: Was mining with the Raspberry Pi ever profitable? Post by: Zawamiya on November 08, 2014, 01:07:13 PM Obviously now it would not be but I wonder a few years ago was it ever feasible? Can you even mine with raspberry PI? Title: Re: Was mining with the Raspberry Pi ever profitable? Post by: SSSSwinner on November 18, 2014, 08:04:13 AM I mined my first block on an Intel Celeron. the rpi could have easily mined a block back in the day :)
Title: Re: Was mining with the Raspberry Pi ever profitable? Post by: ranochigo on November 18, 2014, 10:52:10 AM I mined my first block on an Intel Celeron. the rpi could have easily mined a block back in the day :) The Celeron or any other desktop PC would have a heatsink and a fan to keep the cores cool and prevent it from overheating. Raspberry Pi is mostly designed for non CPU extensive work and low power consumption therefore it doesn't need a fan or a heatsink. In 2012, Celeron would definitely generate a block if you run it long enough, most raspberry pi would just die after generating one block. Back in the days you would have suffered a huge huge loss.Title: Re: Was mining with the Raspberry Pi ever profitable? Post by: guitarplinker on November 18, 2014, 01:35:13 PM I'm sure the Pi would have been a profitable miner on it's own with the correct cooling, but of course those days would have been before the Pi was released. ;)
Title: Re: Was mining with the Raspberry Pi ever profitable? Post by: SSSSwinner on November 19, 2014, 09:11:21 PM I mined my first block on an Intel Celeron. the rpi could have easily mined a block back in the day :) The Celeron or any other desktop PC would have a heatsink and a fan to keep the cores cool and prevent it from overheating. Raspberry Pi is mostly designed for non CPU extensive work and low power consumption therefore it doesn't need a fan or a heatsink. In 2012, Celeron would definitely generate a block if you run it long enough, most raspberry pi would just die after generating one block. Back in the days you would have suffered a huge huge loss.Not sure when the pi was introduced, but I'm speaking of 2010 :) |