A lot of you may not be familiar with Linux, so I thought I might cover some of the basics here as much as I possibly can. I can not go through every single thing you will need to know to run Linux, but I hope to give you an understanding so that you can mine bitcoins with it.
With Windows, it is quite easy to learn and whatever you don’t know how to do, you can easily look up on the internet. Actually, this is true even with Linux. However, many newbies to Linux, find dealing with the Terminal a little daunting, perhaps even frightening because most people these days did not grow up with a terminal, but instead with icons on their desktop.
But learning the terminal commands is not too difficult, if you are willing to get past your initial apprehension of it. Two of the major things you’ll need to know (besides installing the software of course) is how to do updates, and how to start mining bitcoins.
First how to do updates varies slightly according to which version of Linux you are using. Since you might be using Raspberry Pi’s for mining, we will learn how to do updates using the Debian/Ubuntu version of Linux.
Once you open the terminal you would type:
sudo apt-get update
This will allow the computer to get a list of all the files which need to be upgraded. Then once it has finished this, and you get the prompt again, you will need to type the following to ACTUALLY upgrade your computer:
sudo apt-get upgrade
Between these steps, you might need to put in your password. This is because with the sudo command, you are asking for “super user” capabilities. In other words, you are asking to make changes to the core of the computer kernel and it needs your password to do so, otherwise anyone could just change it.
When setting up your Raspberry Pi’s to mine Bitcoins, you will need to follow the instructions of the particular mine you get. Some instructions come online, others might come with the specific mine you get. Below is an example of how to set up your Raspberry Pi to mine with a simple U3 miner, which mines at about 60Gh/second.
If you have any questions about what else you need to do, or if you are using another kind of mine, either look it up on youtube, or let me know below and I will try to find it for you.
Best of luck on your bitcoin mining endeavours!
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