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Raspberry Pi good for BitCoin Mining?

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Hi guys!

 

I want to start mining with a Raspberry Pi with 2 ~ 4 mining USB in a powered USB hub and with the Adafruit 16x2 LCD + Keypad Kit .

 

Am i going to make profit of this? I've found a article that inspired me: http://learn.adafruit.com/piminer-raspberry-pi-bitcoin-miner/initial-setup-and-assembly

 

 

 

Thanks!

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Take in mind it would take months for my system to have a chance at mining, with a pi it would take years.

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http://learn.adafruit.com/piminer-raspberry-pi-bitcoin-miner/initial-setup-and-assembly nvm I just read the title ad not the op

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Take in mind it would take months for my system to have a chance at mining, with a pi it would take years.

It mines with the USB's

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It mines with the USB's

Still even with the most powerful butterfly lab mining card it would take a few weeks.

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Hi guys!

 

I want to start mining with a Raspberry Pi with 2 ~ 4 mining USB in a powered USB hub and with the Adafruit 16x2 LCD + Keypad Kit .

 

Am i going to make profit of this? I've found a article that inspired me: http://learn.adafruit.com/piminer-raspberry-pi-bitcoin-miner/initial-setup-and-assembly

 

 

 

Thanks!

 

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No, those ASIC's are a couple generations old and will never see an ROI. Their $ per Ghash makes them nothing more than a paper weight.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Users cannot, and will not securely manage key material. Most users can't and the ones that can, wont.

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The Raspberry Pi isn't even powerful enough to run a GUI or Browser, there is no way it can run those kinds of cypto algorithms.

He's on about using the USB ASIC things tbf, which would probably have been a sensible proposition a year or so ago.

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He's on about using the USB ASIC things tbf, which would probably have been a sensible proposition a year or so ago.

Thank You for the classification, but it's still not plausible, the Raspberry Pi doesn't have the power to run those many USBs, maybe with a external power USB hub, but software problems will arise as I don't know of any client that runs on a ARM processor.

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Thank You for the classification, but it's still not plausible, the Raspberry Pi doesn't have the power to run those many USBs, maybe with a external power USB hub, but software problems will arise as I don't know of any client that runs on a ARM processor.

There are clients to run off ARM, and as you say you can use a powered USB hub. I've seen it work before - but it just wouldn't be worth it now.

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