raspberry pi is pretty sweet running electrum

[Altoidnerd]

[Trance]

Cool story bro 

[seriouscoin]

Still a waste of space for what electrum does.

We need more full nodes to protect the network not thin client like Electrum. I would understand if you have a full node on a PC and use Electrum on a RPi as a thin.

[Altoidnerd]

Cool story bro  

I know what you're saying but I wanted to toss up a picture of the coolness. The vibrant display is surprising. This has got to be the cheapest way to have bitcoins and really control your wallet.  You can easily write apps for online sales and shit.  And the pi can talk to other devices easily.  

I'm just saying try it, it's good.

The most difficult part was actually taking the screen shot.  

[seriouscoin]

Cool story bro  

I know what you're saying but I wanted to toss up a pic picture of the coolness.  This has got to be the cheapest way to have bitcoins and really control your wallet.  You can easily write apps for online sales and shit.  And the pi can talk to other devices easily.  

I'm just saying try it, it's good.

The most difficult part was actually taking the screen shot.  

How about free? everyone has a smartphone nowadays why dont you use it?

What you use is just as cheap as a netbook when you factor the cost of a "keyboard, mouse and monitor" LOL

[Altoidnerd]

Smart phone free?  Hardly...

This is a one time cost solution...and I hate talking to people anyway I question why I need a phone all the time.  

But a pi isnt like a phone...its meant to be set up as a simple computer! Like a for point of sale. Huge display through HDMI. And it has pinouts for just about anything you want to hook up to it.  It's just not the same as a phone.

I was just in miami where there is city wide wifi with low bandwidth...but its perfect for this.  I do expect this to become a popular way to run an SPV node.  I'd rather do it on a pi than on a phone...

[elgeo]

Still a waste of space for what electrum does.

We need more full nodes to protect the network not thin client like Electrum. I would understand if you have a full node on a PC and use Electrum on a RPi as a thin.

what electrum does?

[seriouscoin]

Smart phone free?  Hardly...

This is a one time cost solution...and I hate talking to people anyway I question why I need a phone all the time.  

But a pi isnt like a phone...its meant to be set up as a simple computer! Like a for point of sale. Huge display through HDMI. And it has pinouts for just about anything you want to hook up to it.  It's just not the same as a phone.

I was just in miami where there is city wide wifi with low bandwidth...but its perfect for this.  I do expect this to become a popular way to run an SPV node.  I'd rather do it on a pi than on a phone...

lol No one compares hardware specs between a phone and a pi. Read my post again.

 

[JLM]

Great and Congratulations!!!!

Somebody try to use Bitcoin QT w/ Raspberry Pi???
And try to use it in mining solo mode?

[Altoidnerd]

Hmm, I would build the QT on it but I have a few concerns.  One, I have a 8GB card.  And bigger cards are made of course but I have found they are actually usually unstable...I once bought a 128 GB card and it was a piece of shit.  Maybe 32 gig?

Secondly, all those berkely db libs.  Maybe it'll go though...actually there is a rasp pi version of arch.  Maybe that will work.  Do you think its really worth trying?  Cuz i have another pi right here.

[runam0k]

The Pi works well for cold storage.

[Altoidnerd]

What if the pi tethered with bluetooth through a trusted portal and only saw extremely limited traffic.  It would be like a low-risk payment receive-only box. 

Once in a while you can always move the coins to an even colder pi.

[TippingPoint]

What you use is just as cheap as a netbook when you factor the cost of a "keyboard, mouse and monitor"

I don't think you need to have the keyboard, mouse and monitor connected while it is running in the field.  Just when programming, etc.  Is that true?

Autorun app when powering up.

[Altoidnerd]

Oh yes probably not keyboard once setup is done. You certainly want a keyboard for initial libraries...I tend to like Logitech universal USB so there's one receiver that sits there but you're correct...you could get by without a keyboard especially if this is on the back end of something.

[CoinHeavy]

How about armory on a raspberry pi and maybe a piper printer for a cheap/easy offline paper wallet generator?

[Altoidnerd]

I put armory in my PC once and noticed armory is a big program. Why not an electrum private key dump? Because electrum needs to contact the server? I'm not sure if it does, in order to create a new wallet.

I'll try putting armory on if you really think it'll work.

[solexsky999]

Awesome Project! Congrat 

[MineForeman.com]

Great and Congratulations!!!!

Somebody try to use Bitcoin QT w/ Raspberry Pi???
And try to use it in mining solo mode?

I have, I tried it "just because" while fiddling around with MinePeon to see if I could solo mine.

The short answer, yes it run's but because of processor/storage requirements the block chain will never sync.

I let it go for a week or so and it eventually ate the SD card .

Neil

[MWNinja]

The Pi makes for a terrible full node.  The cubieboard (which has a sata controller) is a much better choice.

The Raspberry Pi is great for electrum, multibit, armory offline, as a mining controller, music player, video player, bitcoin atm, point of sale device, and about 50 million other cool uses.

[Altoidnerd]

So I wanted to stop connecting a keyboard.  There's an on-screen keyboard of course that lets you type with a mouse.  Just go to the terminal (at least in raspbian) and do

Code:

sudo apt-get install matchbox-keyboard

matchbox-keyboard

scrot is the screen cap program, which I'm pretty sure was just

Code:

sudo apt-get install scrot