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[kingcolex]

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[5w00p]

You asked, so I would say that the best use for that little PC would be to forgo mining with it and instead use it as a Monero node.

[5w00p]

Nope, no POS for Monero.

Maybe you should get some. 

[cryptotipz]

Back in the olden days  , you could have set up tons of USB ASIC miners on the pi on all the ports and utilized it like that, not sure if you'll get much BTC at all doing that now.. 

[altcoinhosting]

So I have an extra pi sitting, I know i could stake coins pos coins but I was looking for some input on which ones. I also have a powered Hard drive to usb adapter for two hard drives and I am able to hook them up to the pi and burst mine or whatever with them if it is possible. Please let me know what the best use would be for this little pc !

I think you're correct, if you have a big usb disk, you could use them for BURST HDD mining. It's not so easy to setup, but if you have a couple TB diskspace, you can still make some cash with this (i tried this about a month ago, with a 250 Gig Hd, but this wasn't enough to generate some real bucks)

[altcoinhosting]

I would give it a try... IMO you've got nothing to lose. If, for some reason, BURST mining doesn't generate cash for you, you can just remove the plots for your HDD and it's like nothing happened.

BTW: read their tutorial very carefull, it's a completely different kind of setup, so it's not like mining with minerd, a wallet, cgminer,...

[altcoinhosting]

I've only used a xeon server with Debian to try burst, but I think it should be possible... Maybe you'll need to plot the plots using a different machine, and then mine with your pi.

I'll have a look tomorrow morning.

[altcoinhosting]

i had a quick look on the web today, apparently, there is a guy who compiled the necessary binaries for burst mining on raspberry pi.

http://www.reddit.com/user/Kartojal

maybe you can contact him.

There was a lot of discussion about burst hdd mining with raspberry pi, the concensus was that it's possible, but it might be a little slower...

[iram66680]

i had a quick look on the web today, apparently, there is a guy who compiled the necessary binaries for burst mining on raspberry pi.

http://www.reddit.com/user/Kartojal

maybe you can contact him.

There was a lot of discussion about burst hdd mining with raspberry pi, the concensus was that it's possible, but it might be a little slower...

If I'm not wrong, Burst mining makes use of the storage space. Since most people don't have an extra HDD with them, some might just use the SD card. This can significantly shorten the lifespan and health of the storage.

Never try to mine anything that maxes out the CPU. The poor cooling can just kill your raspbery pi sooner.

[emdje]

You could sell the PI and buy some coins 
Would generate the most coins I think 

Or you could host a simple peer to peer mining pool at a 1% rate or something

[altcoinhosting]

You could sell the PI and buy some coins 
Would generate the most coins I think 

Or you could host a simple peer to peer mining pool at a 1% rate or something

I think you might be right about selling... Chances you'll make more money while mining (substracting energy costs) are indeed slim to none.

About a p2p mining pool, make sure you have enough technical knowledge... It's not as simple as it looks.

[spydud22]

i had a quick look on the web today, apparently, there is a guy who compiled the necessary binaries for burst mining on raspberry pi.

http://www.reddit.com/user/Kartojal

maybe you can contact him.

There was a lot of discussion about burst hdd mining with raspberry pi, the concensus was that it's possible, but it might be a little slower...

If I'm not wrong, Burst mining makes use of the storage space. Since most people don't have an extra HDD with them, some might just use the SD card. This can significantly shorten the lifespan and health of the storage.

Never try to mine anything that maxes out the CPU. The poor cooling can just kill your raspbery pi sooner.

I have one of these

This is what I would use to burst mine, which as far as I am aware not cpu intensive.

I am more looking towards just staking peercoin or another POS coin, the pi only uses 4w and at my power rate it on 24/7 for an entire month would be 2.88 kwh so only costing me 17 cents per month in power or 2$ a year of running 24/7. Power is not a concern with the pi.

I also have one of these and an rpi2. I'll be watching this thread to see if it gets anywhere. Hosting my own p2p pool would be awesome but theres no "easyway/tutorial that I've found.

[altcoinhosting]

I also have one of these and an rpi2. I'll be watching this thread to see if it gets anywhere. Hosting my own p2p pool would be awesome but theres no "easyway/tutorial that I've found.

Running a pool is actually pretty diffucult to do if you haven't got the right technical experience + knowledge on how bitcoin/altcoin actually works... I've tried to setup one a couple weeks ago, but couldn't get it to work properly... Compiling a deamon, a LAMP server,.... is actually pretty straightforeward, but NOMP and a stratum server config were pretty hard...

[iram66680]

i had a quick look on the web today, apparently, there is a guy who compiled the necessary binaries for burst mining on raspberry pi.

http://www.reddit.com/user/Kartojal

maybe you can contact him.

There was a lot of discussion about burst hdd mining with raspberry pi, the concensus was that it's possible, but it might be a little slower...

If I'm not wrong, Burst mining makes use of the storage space. Since most people don't have an extra HDD with them, some might just use the SD card. This can significantly shorten the lifespan and health of the storage.

Never try to mine anything that maxes out the CPU. The poor cooling can just kill your raspbery pi sooner.

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I also have one of these and an rpi2. I'll be watching this thread to see if it gets anywhere. Hosting my own p2p pool would be awesome but theres no "easyway/tutorial that I've found.

Raspberry pi 2 isn't designed for heavy load like mining. Hosting a pool may end up using lots of resources depending on your network load. It is far better to use a dedicated server or VPS for this. Internet costs may be a problem too.

[grouper fish]

Burst mining is not very CPU intensive, but you will have to plot the HDD:s using another device. Plotting can be done with either CPU or GPU depending on plotter.

[sp_]

Burst mining is not very CPU intensive, but you will have to plot the HDD:s using another device. Plotting can be done with either CPU or GPU depending on plotter.

The Raspberry pi 2 with the 800mhz arm processor can mine 1khash/s in the quark algorithm with the latest cpuminer.

you will need around 23000 pi's to beat one modern graphic card like the NVIDIA 980ti

One pi consumes around 4Watt so you will use around 92,000WATT compared to 250WATT with the graphic card.

[altcoinhosting]

Burst mining is not very CPU intensive, but you will have to plot the HDD:s using another device. Plotting can be done with either CPU or GPU depending on plotter.

The Raspberry pi 2 with the 800mhz arm processor can mine 1khash/s in the quark algorithm with the latest cpuminer.

you will need around 23000 pi's to beat one modern graphic card like the NVIDIA 980ti

You will use 92,000WATT compared to 250WATT with the graphic card.

True, but with burst, you're not mining with your GPU, the GPU is only used to generate the plots on the HD (actually, you can use a desktop PC, with a decent GPU to make the plots if you wish). The actual mining is actually using the HD plots.

[bit1]

Try OKCash  with system ROKOS V 1.0 to pi2  or run a  full node to BTC......

[MaxDZ8]

There's a dude trying something with Arduino... perhaps you could read that topic as well.
My suggestion: get creative with GPIO and implement (say) Qubit on an analog HAT, would be nice.

[bit1]

^^ Interesting.      Rasperry Pi Vs Arduino