I was asking this, check out this topic: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=595648.0

But currently even the "better" routers are not strong enough. CPU and even more the RAM are the issue...

Hello, I started running a node on my macmini and I am having some problems. The Bitcoin-qt client connects to more than 8 peers, I forwarded the port and everything.

But then after 24 hours when my IP changes (I have a dynamic IP) the connections drop to 8 and they do not go back to +8 until I restart the client.

I searched around and found pretty old posts on this subject and no clear solutions.

Is this a bug in 0.9.1? Anyone else having this problem on a dynamic IP connection?

As I see on the forums (not just bitcointalk but others), most activity is around mining and following that is talk about buying/selling bitcoins.

between the lines you can sense the "get rich quick" idea

With the exception of certain big bitcoin voices like andreas antonopoulos (and some others) there is little to see in the long term humanitarian activity. Yeah there are people speaking out, but they do not attract the masses (and I mean the masses already using bitcoin, not regular "consumers" that never heard about it).

I think more time has to pass so people start seeing this bitcoin phenomenon as something more than bringing them $$$.

It got like 6 signers from reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/ And my post got a lot of down votes too...

Guess the community does not see the benefit of a petition like this succeeding.

I sent a tweet to major bitcoin figures like andreas antonopoulos but they probably see it as spam since I did not see a retweet.

If anyone has connections with someone who has a strong voice in the bitcoin community to spread the message, please do

Ok so the router is out of the question I was thinking that if the router can handle seeding +20 torrents in the size of a few GB with a connection limit set to 500 and it does not slow it down that it could power a node.

What about an old laptop, 2GB RAM, 1.6 Ghz Atom processor? Is that over the top or would it barely handle it? I don't want to run a node that would just slow the network down and do more harm then good...

We are talking about a Raspberry Pi and the ODROID-U3 now, the second one has a quad core. So what is the reasonable CPU to handle the node, is the Atom good enough?

I am trying to achieve the same as installing Bitcoin-qt on a computer and run a (full) node. Not for myself but for the network.

Well I had no idea that the work a node does is so intensive, I always thought the miners are doing the heavy work and the nodes are just picking up those few kbytes of traffic and adding it to the chain...

I am still eager to contribute to the network since I have a fast internet plug. I will think about investing in a small PC to do the job..

But I am still interested in this openwrt (even if a brick my router ), if anyone has more experience or thoughts please give some input

wow, didn't know it was so memory hungry since the average block size is like 0.25 MB..

Is this growing as the number of transactions per second increase or is this 375MB a constant since ever?

But this problem could be solved by creating a swap partition on the external hdd I think.

Hello, I ask for help regarding the setup of a bitcoin node. I heard that the number of nodes is dropping and I want to start my own. Since I don't have a computer on 24/7 I was thinking about setting it up on my router (asus rt-n16 running openwrt).

First is this router capable enough to run a node? The specs are: 480Mhz Broadcom CPU, 128MB RAM and an external 500GB hdd for the blockchain.

I have a 20/20 Mbit fiber connection which I think would suffice.

So where I really need help is with the software, if anyone did this already and was willing to share the experience it would save me some time. Is there an up to date port for openwrt available somewhere (my searching turned up older versions of bitcoin-qt for openwrt)?

3 days in and almost 50 signers!!! I did not imagine this going so bad haha

I think more grandmas started studying the source code of bitcoin than people who signed the petition

also share on your facebooks, twitters and whatever you use...lets get a network effect, bitcoin style

Now is your chance to sing the petition:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Avaazorg_Start_accepting_cryptocurrencies_like_Bitcoin_for_donations/?nFCTmbb

cheers

exactly what I had in mind

Sing the petition and share with friends:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Avaazorg_Start_accepting_cryptocurrencies_like_Bitcoin_for_donations/?nFCTmbb


Avaaz is a strong voice in the internet community, would be a big step if they went crypto.

Any developments for OPENWRT? (scrypt mode only, don't need dual mode)

If anyone got it working I would be very grateful for a link or a short step by step...

I would love to plug them in my router and forget about them like my antminers

I can confirm that. I am running the USB dual miner from my 10.6.8 hackintosh. Works great

I have been using this version on windows for the last week and everything works fine. I currently have two gridseeds on it.


The first post in this link, version 3.99.0:
http://cryptomining-blog.com/tag/gridseed-bfgminer/

I got bitcoin minig working on openwrt already and it works great. But for the gridseed dualminer I would need a build that has scrypt and the gridseed drivers integrated. And here I am having problems...

did anyone compile a version of bfgminer with support for scrypt and the usb dualminer for openwrt and was maybe willing to share it?

I am having trouble compiling it myself, not that experienced in that area yet... :/

EDIT: for brcm47xx

If was probably from the same IP, but not the same computer. But my sister got bored clicking the ads pretty fast, so I think that user769 was not active in the last week. So to fix this situation and avoid further trouble like this its best to use only one account per IP?