Curious, where can you get one for under $100? And how hard would it be to set up a node on it?
The Chinese producer sells them for less than 100$. What you actually pay depends on
your reseller. They want they profit and transport+taxes paid, of course. Here in Germany, resellers are offering in the 80€ range, including 19% VAT.
I think I'll get me one soon.
Setting up a node on an ARM system is quite easy. For the RPi, there's of course my
RaspNXT project. If the Cubieboards are also a standard ARMv6 arch (which I haven't checked yet), it should run on them too as-is.
I am thinking about upgrading RaspNXT to a full-fledged install script for all -nux systems. If this came to pass, installing on such systems should become really easy.
I have ordered it last night and I will get it in hand tomorrow.
Presently I am running a Raspberry PI node, however, it's very slow, especially I need to VNC connection to launch the browser to unlock the account to forge. As some guy may know, some special characters including "(" can't be handled with curl to call the API in the linux console.
CT(cubietrunk) has 2G memory. It should be fast.
You could put * as allowed IPs and connect by browser from an arbitrary host. Are there reasons against this in your case?
Also, are you using
RaspNXT already? I know I'm slightly behind on updating
, but it speeds up things a lot. An update to NXT 0.5.3 is soon to come.
Please feed us some info or pics on your Cubietruck when it's there. Basically, this could be the definite high-speed low-cost home NXT node hardware.
Good idea. I feel this is perfect hardware to have always-on for tasks like this.
The 8GB flash
are in fact enough to run even fully loaded desktop Linux distros, e.g. Ubuntu. You'll only need to expand this at all if the NXT blockchain ever grows almost as large as the BTC chain.
