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New $35 Raspberry Pi is the Most Powerful Yet for Running a Full Bitcoin Node ...
- https://cointelegraph.com/news/new-35-raspberry-pi-is-the-most-powerful-yet-for-running-a-full-bitcoin-node

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... and because CSW just "loves" folks running a Full Bitcoin (BTC) Node on a Raspberry Pi ... [citation needed] - SWIM

:D  ;D

One small detail the article forgets to mention, you will still need at least a 256GB card and pretty soon a 512Gb one to run the full node, the package doesn't come with one and the cheapest is around 30-40$.

Funny how the site they mention http://www.raspberrypifullnode.com/ still talks about 64 gb :P

Wouldnt an atomic pi which was available a month ago be more efficient since they run on an atom x86 architecture and cheaper then a pi?
They cost $30 last time I went hunting on the price.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rywLHa1i9yk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4_fjwz08-8

TBH I'd use my HDD docks and just place my unused HDD in there if I were to run a full node. Pretty sure people with the knowledge on what to do with Raspberry Pi and how it works would have had some extra PC components lying around and I'm one of them (lol). Anyhow, knowing that $/GB has been pretty much going down year by year, it's easy to find the right storage device if one is to run a node. Everything is coming cheaper for the PC industry these days, well at least the outdated (?) components.


True, I wouldn't buy one but if I have a spare lying around, that would do. Even if you can utilize the help of HD Sentinel and other similar software, I'm still not comfortable buying used HDDs for important uses, at all.

Make sure it's low power. The new Pi is more power hungry.

It's not like spare parts are worthless, you could always sell your old HDD and dock to a guy that wants to run a bitcoins node for 25$!  ;D
So, it's still a small investment on top of those 35$.

And I wouldn't go for any older HDD with less than 500 Gb. Knowing what a pain in the ass was to sync it two years ago I wouldn't want to do it again when the chain would be twice the size. Cards are also silent, unlike old hdd drives, but maybe in a few yers, we can all switch to SSDs, a 500gb evo is already under the 100$ marks.

Most of the time i ran into memory problems when side loading stuff next to running commands on the pi node. The biggest pros for me is the memory gain with the 4gb version.

If we want this kind of devices to be popular among the mass we should probably make them multiple purpose.  I should be able to do other stuff with it aside running full node. It could be made as a modular device with easy to find parts.

Sure, but Pi4 means you can run extra stuff in addition to a Bitcoin node

24/7/365 you could have running:

• private Email
• private social media
• lightning node
• personal dropbox
• sell stuff on openbazaar
• trade coins on Bisq
• remote control of anything on your home network (tell your robot butler to start cooking, turn the lights on and off to thwart burglars, etc ;D)

The list of things to do gets bigger, computing boards keep getting more powerful, and the Bitcoin devs keep reducing the resources needed to run Bitcoin (except disk space, of course)

Yeah they just released the pi 4 on monday so the cost of the newer version is higher if you go with the 4gb and need it to run other apps in the background while hosting the node.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-4-48-hours-later

Used / Refurbished 1U or 2U rack server, $150 to $250
Dual Quad Core Xeon Processors, running 2 Ghz or faster.
16GB RAM or more
Comes with 3x 146 GB 10k RPM (or 15k RPM) SAS drives, which you can replace with 256 GB to 512 GB SSD.

The Pi is a cool toy and you can do a lot of things with it. It's also a lot lower power consumption than the server, but not sure by how much, or if that is small enough to ignore.

Lets say I run a Bitcoin Node with a Rasberry Pi are there any benefits for me?
Is it possible to get a small share of Bitcoin when u run a node?

I would like to know, I think the rasberry pi is very handy for bitcoin related stuff, and I didn't know you could also run your own private email and private social media with it how does that work?

Definitely must try this out. I am deeply involved in RP

I even found out that the Raspberry Pi can run Bitcoin Nodes in full. Compared to the price that must be paid, I think this is worth more. Well, even I think with a little modification, maybe the performance can also develop from the default.

private email

• set up tor (or i2p... or cjdns, but fewer people use those)
• set up a hidden service (or just use your ip address if you go the cjdns route)
• set up an email service (use dovecot & smtpd for the easiest setup IMO)
• use the hidden service (or cjdns ip) as your domain (i.e. the @website.com bit)
• profit

for private social media, mastodon and diaspora are the bigger ones. Lot of Bitcoin people on mastodon. Same basic process as email really.