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Arduino bitcoin miner?

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Here: https://github.com/joric/arduino-bitcoin-miner

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Is it possible to create an Arduino bitcoin miner? I know the massive system requirements to get anything out of mining bitcoins (My friend has an AMD 2 GPU system and still makes like nothing) but I wanted a little project to do and was wondering if it was possible and how much it would net me if I made it and left it running for lets say 6 months. Any info would be great thank you.

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You would make heat and that is it.

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Just now, frozeNNN said:

I would say it's not worth a try

I am bored and need a project to keep me entertained even if it doesn't work well I will still get experience.

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4 minutes ago, scooterandy11 said:

I am bored and need a project to keep me entertained even if it doesn't work well I will still get experience.

There are many other projects to be made and are useful.

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1 minute ago, scooterandy11 said:

I am bored and need a project to keep me entertained even if it doesn't work well I will still get experience.

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1 minute ago, frozeNNN said:

There are many other projects to be made and are useful.

I have 6 arduinos and have 1 next to me and have a lot of time to kill. I use the others for useful stuff like monitoring light levels (the one in a plastic box on my roof xD) One to collect data from the rest which is then given over to my server which then makes a database full of it. One is a doorbell and another is an alarm system. I jsut have no other things I need one for and was wondering if it was possible.

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5 hours ago, scooterandy11 said:

I have 6 arduinos and have 1 next to me and have a lot of time to kill. I use the others for useful stuff like monitoring light levels (the one in a plastic box on my roof xD) One to collect data from the rest which is then given over to my server which then makes a database full of it. One is a doorbell and another is an alarm system. I jsut have no other things I need one for and was wondering if it was possible.

how about learn about actual PCB design, do something more than running sketches you copy/paste off the internet to make LEDs blink

 

 

free diptrace download, make a 2-layer board, order the parts, solder, flash firmware. That should keep you busy for a day or two.

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I may be wrong but I don't think an arduino has what it takes to drive even a low end GPU for mining, now the Intel version or maybe a raspberry pi you could build a weather station that would take up some of your time

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It has an arm processor so does the raspberriy pie so I'd say you can get Linux on it and some computTions going. 

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It wouldn't be possible because the arduino doesn't have enough memory (ram) and room for code (flash memory in the microcontroller) and probably doesn't have hardware functions required to perform various mathematical operations required to "discover" coins. If the hardware functions don't exist, they have to be implemented with other more basic instructions, making each calculation several times slower.

 

It may be possible to do something with a PIC32MZ microcontroller which has some amount of ram embedded it in and has all the functions and stuff required to run a very simplified operating system on it, like a linux that runs in 4-8 MB of code. I think it has a sdram or ddram controller in it, and you can attach up to 32 MB of memory or something like that, in addition to the amount of memory already inside it.

 

That would be the most complex you'd probably still consider a microcontroller.

There are micros based on ARM Cortex (various m0, m4 etc) which can probably also run bitcoin software, but they'd be excruciatingly slow.

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Bitcoin doesn't seem like a very profitable option. Check out Duino-Coin. It's in very early development stage, but pretty usable! Link to GitHub

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