In a previous post I hinted at using Raspberry Pi‘s and Linux for mining Bitcoin.
Some of you who may not be computer geeks, probably won’t know what a Raspberry Pi is, let alone how it could help you mine Bitcoins (or other Crypto-currencies). Basically Raspberry Pi’s are like miniature motherboards which when given Debian Linux can do many different tasks, especially if you use the new Raspberry Pi 2.
The new Raspberry Pi 2 can even run Windows 10 on it and get onto the internet, has a quad core, and 1 GB RAM. It costs about $35 for just the board. If you want to enclose the Raspberry Pi 2 in a case and make it more like an actual computer, the entire kit for that will be about $130.00.
But when mining Bitcoins, you really probably do not need a case, or, if you will be putting many Raspberry Pi’s together to have the ability to mine with several mines at once, you might consider making your own Raspberry case which holds many at once. Something like this:
You’ll notice the case not only can hold about 32 Raspberry Pi‘s, but also has 4 fans inside to keep the motherboards cool. Now, this particular case is handmade by Josh Kiepert and you can watch his video here: https://youtu.be/i_r3z1jYHAc
Hopefully you can get some ideas from this. Imagine if you will, having a master motherboard attached to this, plus attached to each one of these 32 Raspberry Pi‘s a large Bitcoin mine. That is how you would structure it, and make it easy to mine large amounts of bitcoin.
Now, back to the operating system you would use, I recommend Linux, even though you could easily put Windows 10 on your Raspberry Pi’s. This is because Linux has far less likelihood of getting viruses in it than Windows will. But plenty of people use Windows to mine bitcoins, so don’t worry if you are using Windows.
On an upcoming blog, I will go into more detail of how to do the software side of mining bitcoins and how to set it all up. Also, I will talk about how to chose a mining pool, which is very essential to mining bitcoins.
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