[2015-11-23] Raspberry Pi 2 – Can It Revolutionize Bitcoin Mining?

[tyz]

Raspberry Pi is a series of credit card-sized single-board computers distributed by RS Components, Egoman and Newark Element14.

http://www.newsbtc.com/2015/11/23/raspberry-pi-2-efficient-portable-bitcoin-miner/

[tiggytomb]

I was looking at the Raspberry Pi a while ago thinking that it would be pretty cool if there was a way you could just plug it in anywhere for example at work whilst you work away it could just power off the USB and mine away. 

Is this something that is achievable with the Pi2? I have limited experience with the Pi but would definitely be interested if you can plug it in and then have it feed off your phone as a wifi hotspot which would allow mining on the go.

[siameze]

Wouldn't mining with a RasPi just be the definition of redundancy, unless you plan on using it to power ASICs.

There are many boards with ARM processors and ram for much cheaper that can do what Pi can as well. Even the usb pc sticks show some promise

[AndySt]

Wouldn't mining with a RasPi just be the definition of redundancy, unless you plan on using it to power ASICs.

There are many boards with ARM processors and ram for much cheaper that can do what Pi can as well. Even the usb pc sticks show some promise

Raspberry PI of course is a great thing but I don't think what this product will be so energy-efficient for mining than more powerful ASICs.

[jt byte]

I like what I have seen from this project so far. Raspberry was made to being going hand and hand with the blockchain 

[okae]

Raspberry Pi 2 guys are going on the right side from my point of view, they are not the only one who bet for those philosophy, 21inc guys are doing something "related" to that too.

Dont know if in the future this will happen finally, but if this happened, this mean that everything was going ok with bitcoin

[crazyearner]

The pi is good for a way to use for mining if you are using on larger mining farms or gpu farms and connecting up instead of having to have tuns of motherboards. I am looking to maybe make a future farm for gpu mining realted coins and using the following


How effective they will be to connect upto a usb hub and then connect the 10 into one usb and add into a power and an ODROID

http://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G143452239825


With ODROID kicks ass over Raspverry pi2 have done for a long time and USB3 and far better proformance than pi 2 and been out lot longer. If I ever get back into GPU mining on some profitable coins then this will be the way I go but I need to look at testing on Linux and looking at how AMD will work using linux and usb and odroid system

[siameze]

The pi is good for a way to use for mining if you are using on larger mining farms or gpu farms and connecting up instead of having to have tuns of motherboards. I am looking to maybe make a future farm for gpu mining realted coins and using the following


How effective they will be to connect upto a usb hub and then connect the 10 into one usb and add into a power and an ODROID

http://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G143452239825


With ODROID kicks ass over Raspverry pi2 have done for a long time and USB3 and far better proformance than pi 2 and been out lot longer. If I ever get back into GPU mining on some profitable coins then this will be the way I go but I need to look at testing on Linux and looking at how AMD will work using linux and usb and odroid system

That looks like a very interesting system, thanks for sharing. I think that may be a new addition to my collection ... I have not had the chance to try anything with ODROID yet and the specs sure seem to blow a pi (or anything else I am using at the moment) out of the water.

[crazyearner]

The pi is good for a way to use for mining if you are using on larger mining farms or gpu farms and connecting up instead of having to have tuns of motherboards. I am looking to maybe make a future farm for gpu mining realted coins and using the following


How effective they will be to connect upto a usb hub and then connect the 10 into one usb and add into a power and an ODROID

http://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G143452239825


With ODROID kicks ass over Raspverry pi2 have done for a long time and USB3 and far better proformance than pi 2 and been out lot longer. If I ever get back into GPU mining on some profitable coins then this will be the way I go but I need to look at testing on Linux and looking at how AMD will work using linux and usb and odroid system

That looks like a very interesting system, thanks for sharing. I think that may be a new addition to my collection ... I have not had the chance to try anything with ODROID yet and the specs sure seem to blow a pi (or anything else I am using at the moment) out of the water.

Sure is and the previous version http://www.hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G140448267127 the XU3 was even more powerful however they have discontinued it but why they have done that and released the XU4

XU3
 Samsung Exynos5422 Cortex™-A15 2.0Ghz quad core and Cortex™-A7 quad core CPUs
* Mali-T628 MP6(OpenGL ES 3.0/2.0/1.1 and OpenCL 1.1 Full profile)
* 2Gbyte LPDDR3 RAM at 933MHz (14.9GB/s memory bandwidth) PoP stacked
* eMMC5.0 HS400 Flash Storage
* USB 3.0 Host x 1, USB 3.0 OTG x 1, USB 2.0 Host x 4
* HDMI 1.4a and DisplayPort1.1 for display
* Integrated power consumption monitoring tool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE5wJzItppU That is 8 cores running Chinese video but brake down of everything and features and boot up in linux

XU4

* Samsung Exynos5422 Cortex™-A15 2Ghz and Cortex™-A7 Octa core CPUs
* Mali-T628 MP6(OpenGL ES 3.0/2.0/1.1 and OpenCL 1.1 Full profile)
* 2Gbyte LPDDR3 RAM PoP stacked
* eMMC5.0 HS400 Flash Storage
* 2 x USB 3.0 Host, 1 x USB 2.0 Host
* Gigabit Ethernet port
* HDMI 1.4a for display
* Size : 82 x 58 x 22 mm approx.(including cooling fan)

Video of the new one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtqfC9v0xB0 with hardware review over other pi's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUchfyTpOjU



Seems they are both almost the same in specs just costs are lot less on the new one. Well worth the money as on 2nd video gives results of pi pi2 and other types and blows the results away.