1st, please be aware that "Bitcoin" is not a generic term for all cryptocoins. It is 1 very specific coin with the symbols of BTC or BTC, all others are what are known as altcoins (and very commonly also called crapcoins due to the vast majority of them - but NOT all - are worthless) and have their own names and symbols.

Please read this pinned link, mainly point-3. In short, what you want to do is beyond useless. Bitcoin mining requires use of ASIC-based hardware.
A good reference for starting is here.

That said, many altcoins can be mined using CPU/GPU's. The Forum has areas just for that starting here.

Looking at spots on goat entrails or using patterns of tea leaves are good for making predictions 

One has to ask: Why?
Even a RasPi-3 has a 64-bit CPU. What, does someone want to run the software on a Pentium under Win95?

A better thing to consider is that per-definition of what Fiat is, Bitcoin actually IS (becoming) Fiat! That very first sentence in that Wiki link says,Key point there are the words often by government regulation. There is no mandate that a government has to back it - but it is of course often the case.

The last bullet point in the Wiki regarding of examples of Fiat it saysSure sounds a lot like what Bitcoin is criticized for - no intrinsic value.

The key things about the above is that Bitcoin fits all the requirements to become Fiat, aka, general purpose money All that is needed is for it to become a generally accepted medium of exchange.

When you do post the full logs be sure to use the code function on the toolbar. It is the # icon. That keeps the log from showing up as a massive wall of text.

Ja. Edited my post to reflect that. At least with the S1-S7's you could use the RasPi or Beaglebone boards in them (but would still have to add the missing video and USB connectors to them). The S9's started the ARM SOC versions and rather complicates things...

Solo mining is solo mining, mining to your own private node or a public solo pool makes very little difference in finding a block.

Now, having your found block confirmed by other miners so the chain is built upon it is a whole different story -- damn good chance that some pool will have a block found perhaps very soon after and because of their faster connections to the BTC network their block gets confirmed before yours shows up on the network meaning you lose an orphan race.

And running this device as a node lets you do exactly that. So will running any BTC node on any other device, even a RasPi. (thanks for bringing that up, edited my post to reflect that).
The miner portion is just that - a miner - and has nothing (directly) to do with anything regarding what you describe.

And of course being a miner, it has to be pointed at a pool, be it one you setup yourself (and linked to the Apollo node if you don't care about the likelihood of losing blocks due to orphans) or one of the existing ones such as KanoPool, -ck solo pool, ViaBTC, etc.

re: setting it up, um, have you checked the 1st post in this thread?  
   

Aside from P2P ones, nodes do not issue rewards -- they are ONLY repositories for storing blockchain data (edit: and provide you with direct access to the blockchain when using a hard wallet like Trezor et al). Period. Virtually NO ONE 'mines to a node' for a myriad of reasons. Even solo miners mine to a pool that runs (pool) software which in-turn uses a local node for its data.
Again you miss the advertised point of the system: The node is only to support the blockchain.
The miner is intended to be pointed to a pool - not itself.

Spot on. Pretty sure that if it was their work being stolen like that they would be pretty pissed. Folks like that DESERVE a hard slap on the wrist for 1st offense. If they continue to do it then kick their ass to the curb with the rest of the trash.

As they blithely copy/paste their stolen text into a post they have the source right in front of them so:
  A) make it clear that the material came from elsewhere and not from their feeble brain
  B) Include links to it

^^ Of course smuggling is ILLEGAL so that does not give any confidence in the folks selling them....

Aiding and abetting such operations is not allowed in this Forum so expect mods to probably delete your post. At best since it deals with GPU's it would be moved to the crap altcoin area.

Hmm, so some Social Media flake seems to think so much of themself that for whatever reason think they are important or 'famous' enough to also somehow be some sort of threat for a government to harass them by screwing with their YouTube videos? Riiiight....

Now that's worth a laugh!

No. ASIC means Application Specific Integrated Circuit. The chips in it were made to do 1 thing and 1 thing only - process SHA256 hashes. The controller part of it, sure it could might be repurposed as a tiny Linux PC but it has very minimal memory, I/O and com options.

You miss the whole point of the system. As has already been said, the node is just there to help keep the blockchain widely distributed and secure. (edit: and provide you with direct access to the blockchain when using a hard wallet like Trezor et al). Period.

Unless you have an excellent connection to the BTC network - preferably one giving fast connections to networks used by the big pools - even if you find a block using your node for (solo) mining would just most likely result in you having orphans issues (and losing) because of slow propagation time to the other pools. The miner is the main part but - since there is controller running it that most of the time has a lot of free clock cycles available, might as well use it as node as well...

For a start, this belongs in the Bitcoin Forum > Economy > Marketplace > Services area of the Forum. Expect the mods to move it there.
Only problem is that that section has a lot of activity so the post may get get buried quickly...

On which device, a NewPac or Terminus? They are 2 very different things...

Depends on ones definition of "Higher Education".
Being able to support yourself and a family through Life starts with very early on finding out what you are good at and have natural talent for:
  Are you good with making things with your hands?
  Good at conceptualizing problems and thinking about how to solve them?
  Do you have an intense interest in How Things Work?
  etc.

Knowing that then leads to the question of how to learn what is needed to become very good at it. For some people, perhaps the best they can do is become a drone factory worker, if that is the case then High School is probably all they need.

For others a Skilled Trade such as electrician, HVAC, carpentry, welder, ect. will be an excellent choice that is usually also very well paying. They will also require Higher Education in the form of getting trained and generally going through an Apprenticeship program. As a side note, many countries such as the US have a severe shortage of Skilled Trades workers - that usually translates into better money earned.

College I would reserve for occupations that require it such as Engineering, Medical, Financial, etc. To me the idea of a Liberal Arts type of 'degree' is just a way of saying "I have no idea what I'm good at"...

And then there are some very high level investors such as Kevin O'Leary (Sharktank) who could care less about what Elon has to say

Yes it would be.
Only problem is that price is only for the large commercial/industrial-level operations that would be pulling a megawatt or more.

Spot on about the coal-burning power plants being the root issue. The eye-catching title of using "Bitcoin farms shut down" to highlight what they are doing just so happens to fit perfectly with China launching their own digital currency. They do not want competition and so now there is a total ban on crypto mining regardless of where the farms get their power from.

What has made little news is that along with shutting down cryptocoin farms in areas fed mainly by coal plants, China also shuttered several aluminum foundries located in those same regions for the same reason -- they require massive amounts of power and getting it from coal is a bad idea.