Has someone made experience with btc mining with GekkoScience and raspberry pi?

[dissi_xD]

Hi,

i'm looking for someone who made some experience with btc mining using a raspberry pi and gekkoscience's usb miner.

Since i'm playing witht he thought to made susch a setup for myself i got some questions:

- What would be better:
a) raspberry pi 4b with 4gb or 8gb ram
b) the new rapsberry pi 5 with 4 or 8 gb ram
Does it make a great difference on which rapsberry to use or only on which usb miner?

- what would be the ROI?
Let's assume i would buy a pi 5 (about 100€), usb hub, a solar panel and 4 of those usb miners (one costs ~200€)

- how long live such usb miners? (Livespan) like i don't have the money to buy 4 of them in once but i could buy monthly one new, but i don't want that when i buy a new one to "upgrade" my system i only get to "replace" my system since the last one just died.

- cooling system: what would you recommend? Is there also some rpi case for outside since i would use it with solarpower?

- what would be best practice to do this?

Thanks,
dissi

[ABCbits]

- What would be better:
a) raspberry pi 4b with 4gb or 8gb ram
b) the new rapsberry pi 5 with 4 or 8 gb ram
Does it make a great difference on which rapsberry to use or only on which usb miner?

RAM matters little when mining on pool. But some people report Pi 5 has more stable power supply/voltage.

- what would be the ROI?
Let's assume i would buy a pi 5 (about 100€), usb hub, a solar panel and 4 of those usb miners (one costs ~200€)

Nobody knows since you don't mention your electricity rate and which GekkoScience you plan to buy (along with it's price).

[dissi_xD]

- What would be better:
a) raspberry pi 4b with 4gb or 8gb ram
b) the new rapsberry pi 5 with 4 or 8 gb ram
Does it make a great difference on which rapsberry to use or only on which usb miner?

RAM matters little when mining on pool. But some people report Pi 5 has more stable power supply/voltage.

- what would be the ROI?
Let's assume i would buy a pi 5 (about 100€), usb hub, a solar panel and 4 of those usb miners (one costs ~200€)

Nobody knows since you don't mention your electricity rate and which GekkoScience you plan to buy (along with it's price).

Thanks for your answer yes i know, i gave little details. But now i've changed my plan a bit. Instead of the raspberry pi i would use a Gekkoscience Smarthub - 11 Ports with 9 usb just attached. For electricity i would buy a solarpanel with batterie (costs about 1.700€ at leats what i found)

With this usb hub i would get around 2,6 tb/h. Since i'm new to this, is this a good bandwith? And how much would be the roi?

[NotFuzzyWarm]

  Um how about reading the existing thread about it? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5355470.0
That thread will have ALL the answers you need....

[ABCbits]

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Thanks for your answer yes i know, i gave little details. But now i've changed my plan a bit. Instead of the raspberry pi i would use a Gekkoscience Smarthub - 11 Ports with 9 usb just attached. For electricity i would buy a solarpanel with batterie (costs about 1.700€ at leats what i found)

With this usb hub i would get around 2,6 tb/h. Since i'm new to this, is this a good bandwith? And how much would be the roi?

Here's very rough calculation,
Total initial cost: $3650
Gekkoscience Smarthub - 11 Ports With 9 Compac F and 9 fans 2.6 TH/s - $1800.
ALLPOWERS S2000 - 1700€ or about $1850.

Using https://buybitcoinworldwide.com/mining/calculator/ which consider rising difficulty, it state you can obtain $247/year. But it doesn't consider halving on next month, so you probably can obtain $123.5/year. At this point, i believe it's safe to assume ROI will never happen. And if you're willing to spend $3.6K in first place, you might as well as buy regular-sized ASIC (e.g. S21).