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December 22, 2014, 03:32:40 PM
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Hey guys,

I have a raspberry Pi B+  that I'm doing nothing with, i'd like to run it as a BTC node, though the Blockchain is getting bigger and bigger. Anyone have a good tutorial that caters to the new model?

Also is there profit to be made by running a quality node or not at all? (in the past got paid running NXT nodes)


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December 22, 2014, 03:59:03 PM
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Hey guys,

I have a raspberry Pi B+  that I'm doing nothing with, i'd like to run it as a BTC node, though the Blockchain is getting bigger and bigger. Anyone have a good tutorial that caters to the new model?

Also is there profit to be made by running a quality node or not at all? (in the past got paid running NXT nodes)



There are already a lot of Bitcoin Nodes around the world, it wouldn't do much
unless you live in less Bitcoin-Savvy areas in the world like Developing Asian Countries (Philippines, Indonesia, India, etc.)

You'd have a better bet by hosting a project you have using that Rasp. Pi.
Maybe a website or using it as a server for an online app.


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December 22, 2014, 09:47:50 PM
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There's no profit in running a full Bitcoin node, but if you have a fast connection, you'd be helping out the community.
To run a node, all you need is the latest Bitcoin Core.

Otherwise, you could buy a domain and use the RasPi as your own website server. Maybe a torrent seedbox. There are many options Smiley
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December 22, 2014, 10:20:58 PM
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Hey guys,

I have a raspberry Pi B+  that I'm doing nothing with, i'd like to run it as a BTC node, though the Blockchain is getting bigger and bigger. Anyone have a good tutorial that caters to the new model?

Also is there profit to be made by running a quality node or not at all? (in the past got paid running NXT nodes)



There are already a lot of Bitcoin Nodes around the world, it wouldn't do much
unless you live in less Bitcoin-Savvy areas in the world like Developing Asian Countries (Philippines, Indonesia, India, etc.)

You'd have a better bet by hosting a project you have using that Rasp. Pi.
Maybe a website or using it as a server for an online app.

That is not the right mindset. If everyone would say "there is anyway enough nodes", the Bitcoin network wouldn't exist anymore.
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December 22, 2014, 10:59:31 PM
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Running a node with raspberry pi seems a big task but.. its possible, for example i was thinking on setting up my raspberry pi b + that ihave around as a cold wallet, but if theres a bitcoin-qt available for ARM you should go ahead and try it.

Move all the things that write on SD to a HDD, here is one of my setups:

http://mywayonlinux.blogspot.com/2014_05_01_archive.html

you can use some usbs sticks for caching and those things so SDcard does not get corrupted and get a nice external HDD for permanent connection to the raspberry and the node can run on that HDD without having to worry about space.

If you have a hdd around from a laptop you can use: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MQ97QGE/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A29Y8OP2GPR7PE  and use it as a usb

For more usb ports since you may need them, ill recommend this usb hub: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003Z4G3I6/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

You would have to set up cross compiling in case that you want to compile the bitcoin-qt or compile it for ARMv6 using your computer.
My first choice would be Arch linux ARM without X server
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December 22, 2014, 11:07:29 PM
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To run a bitcoin node all you have to do is install bitcoin on it and then run through terminal

Code:
bitcoind -server -daemon

You can then just pull out the HDMI cable as  you won't be needing the view anymore.

The bitcoin blockchain is quite big so you might need a 64GB+ Sd card.
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December 22, 2014, 11:28:54 PM
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To run a bitcoin node all you have to do is install bitcoin on it and then run through terminal

Code:
bitcoind -server -daemon

You can then just pull out the HDMI cable as  you won't be needing the view anymore.

The bitcoin blockchain is quite big so you might need a 64GB+ Sd card.

If he uses a sdcard it will wear out really quick. He does not need to use HDMI cable for setup, he can just SSH to the raspberry pi ...
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December 23, 2014, 09:53:42 AM
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Well the things we can do with Raspberry are quite small in terms of BTC projects, I loved mining BTC with usb miners and Minepeon for example.

Maybe if you have a LCD/TFT screen you could show the current rate of BTC/USD or EURO for example or even combine it with your current BTC balance, i've done this project in the past, let me see if I still have the code somewhere, would safe you a lot of time coding, and if you're not technical it is almost copy / paste.

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December 23, 2014, 09:56:07 AM
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Well the things we can do with Raspberry are quite small in terms of BTC projects, I loved mining BTC with usb miners and Minepeon for example.

Maybe if you have a LCD/TFT screen you could show the current rate of BTC/USD or EURO for example or even combine it with your current BTC balance, i've done this project in the past, let me see if I still have the code somewhere, would safe you a lot of time coding, and if you're not technical it is almost copy / paste.

I would say that it's unnecessary...but here is the video, I think you mean the same: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7kInkXEl6M

Here is also a GitHub source: https://github.com/grepped/raspberry-pi_btc-ticker

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Will report back if I experience a singularity with the blockchain.

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December 24, 2014, 02:14:05 AM
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I am in the same situation, I have a B+ and dont know what to do with it!
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December 24, 2014, 08:25:15 AM
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The problem is the memory.  If you have an external drive to plug in, then you'll be fine.  USB flash drives just die all the time.
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Raspberry Pi model B+ includes only 512mb ram. To run a full node, be sure to add swap. If you only have a SD card, do not run a full node as swap and heavy read and writes on the SD card would most likely shorten the lifespan. Use a HDD/SSD instead.

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January 05, 2015, 05:58:47 AM
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Running a node with raspberry pi seems a big task but.. its possible, for example i was thinking on setting up my raspberry pi b + that ihave around as a cold wallet, but if theres a bitcoin-qt available for ARM you should go ahead and try it.

I've made a script for that, still in Beta, but works (some issues with btchip's HID keyboard replay and udev rule ...)

https://github.com/aussiehash/Bitcoin-for-SBC
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January 05, 2015, 11:17:58 AM
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Hey guys,

I have a raspberry Pi B+  that I'm doing nothing with, i'd like to run it as a BTC node, though the Blockchain is getting bigger and bigger. Anyone have a good tutorial that caters to the new model?

Also is there profit to be made by running a quality node or not at all? (in the past got paid running NXT nodes)



Didn't know there is a B+ model out there as well of the Pi.

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Running a node with raspberry pi seems a big task but.. its possible, for example i was thinking on setting up my raspberry pi b + that ihave around as a cold wallet, but if theres a bitcoin-qt available for ARM you should go ahead and try it.

I've made a script for that, still in Beta, but works (some issues with btchip's HID keyboard replay and udev rule ...)

https://github.com/aussiehash/Bitcoin-for-SBC

Really nice, gonna test it out.. have you considered electrum for offline wallet? should be the same to use it with your model, in fact its better since i dont need the whole blockchain :O!

Really clean script, there's much to learn from it, I'll try to use it with my Archlinux ARM instead of Raspbian
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