Windows Versus Linux

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!

Raspberry Pi’s and Mining

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.

I Don’t Dare Publish Details

Yes, I had to start a new blog, because apparently I can not access my old blog.  I suspect it is because it was linked to GoDaddy and I can not currently afford to pay GoDaddy to renew all of my websites.  So, here I am. I just hope in the near future I can access my blog again and transfer my blog posts over to this new blog.

I don’t dare publish details now as to my plan on how to make huge money with bitcoin, even though I think I might have figured out a way.  I will give a hint though, you’ll need to know how to use Raspberry Pi‘s and Linux. And that is about all I can say.  Needless to say, since my husband is a computer geek, I think we will be quite successful making money with Bitcoin and other Crypto-currencies.

Well, that is all I can say for now.  I am being cryptic because I feel like there are certain forces at work trying to purposely make me unsuccessful.  Call me paranoid, but sometimes evil forces do have a way about themselves.  I hope you all stay tuned to my blogs so that we all maybe can mine bitcoins together someday.