RaspberryPi

[princedylan101]

Can you mine with this? I have one that I never use and I thought that maybe this would be a good way to use it. I've been looking into mining and was planning on getting a usb hub and a few usb miners. Would there be a performance hit from using the Pi? This would be much easier to run 24/7 then my tower because it has a lot in it. Let me know what you think.

[piplupgao]

It will work fine just don;t expect it to be easy to setup.

[Pelop17]

Can you mine with this? I have one that I never use and I thought that maybe this would be a good way to use it. I've been looking into mining and was planning on getting a usb hub and a few usb miners. Would there be a performance hit from using the Pi? This would be much easier to run 24/7 then my tower because it has a lot in it. Let me know what you think.

I have the same question

[Joshyy]

I tried, it's extremely slow, I got something like 200kh/s

[Momas]

There shouldn't be any performance hit, but you won't be making any profit on USB miners. You can try it just for fun though. What you'll need is a good powered USB hub and you'll be pretty much ready to go.

[meneervent]

http://learn.adafruit.com/piminer-raspberry-pi-bitcoin-miner/initial-setup-and-assembly

 

^first google result

[Pelop17]

http://learn.adafruit.com/piminer-raspberry-pi-bitcoin-miner/initial-setup-and-assembly

 

^first google result

this is fot btc if you want to mine dodge or lot?

[princedylan101]

There shouldn't be any performance hit, but you won't be making any profit on USB miners. You can try it just for fun though. What you'll need is a good powered USB hub and you'll be pretty much ready to go.

So would these two things work?

http://goo.gl/Cb6GiL

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http://goo.gl/NuRGv8

 

I might get a few of the usb miners, and if there are better ones I would love to know.

[Momas]

So would these two things work?

http://goo.gl/Cb6GiL

&

http://goo.gl/NuRGv8

 

I might get a few of the usb miners, and if there are better ones I would love to know.

Good choice on the hub. If these miners require the same power as those 333mh/s ones you should be able to use ~7 ports on that hub for miners.

[princedylan101]

Good choice on the hub. If these miners require the same power as those 333mh/s ones you should be able to use ~7 ports on that hub for miners.

Thanks for the quick reply. I can't wait to get this up and running. Since I'll probably at least get 2 other friends to do the same thing, is there potential for any money to be made?

[Momas]

Thanks for the quick reply. I can't wait to get this up and running. Since I'll probably at least get 2 other friends to do the same thing, is there potential for any money to be made?

If you get 6 of those you should get ~90$/month so at the current price of BTC you won't be making any profit in a while.

Also check out this hub: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009NESU4M/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B009NESU4M&linkCode=as2&tag=helpfulstuff-20 it's more expensive but it would be way better if these miners use more power.

Don't forget to get at least 1 USB fan too (USB miners tend to get HOT).

[princedylan101]

If you get 6 of those you should get ~90$/month so at the current price of BTC you won't be making any profit in a while.

Also check out this hub: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009NESU4M/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B009NESU4M&linkCode=as2&tag=helpfulstuff-20 it's more expensive but it would be way better if these miners use more power.

Don't forget to get at least 1 USB fan too (USB miners tend to get HOT)

I will definitely be getting a few usb fans, and as for the hub I already bought one of the rosewill ones  

[Momas]

I will definitely be getting a few usb fans, and as for the hub I already bought one of the rosewill ones  

Those should work just fine. How many did you get and how many miners are you planning to use?

[princedylan101]

Those should work just fine. How many did you get and how many miners are you planning to use?

I only bought one of the hubs, and I'll probably end up getting three of those usb miners.

 

On a side note, I am amazed that a little usb device can demolish my GTX 780, when I found out I was like

[Momas]

I only bought one of the hubs, and I'll probably end up getting three of those usb miners.

 

On a side note, I am amazed that a little usb device can demolish my GTX 780, when I found out I was like

1 good USB fan should be enough for 3 miners, unless these miners output even more heat than those 333mh/s

Since ASICs came out all video cards look pathetic   (not even talking about Nvidia )

 

Edit: forgot to mention that this hub should be more than enough for 3 miners

Edited February 3, 2014 by Momas

[Flojer0]

this is fot btc if you want to mine dodge or lot?

There are no ASIC miners for scrypt based coins yet. I believe you are stuck with CPU or GPU mining, and the raspberry pi gets worse performance per watt than most x86 CPUs and depending on what you do is either 100-1000 times slower than a good desktop CPU (tested myself). If there are other USB mining options for scrypt I'm not familiar with then, FPGA's maybe?