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Questions tagged [raspberry-pi]

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What hash rate can a Raspberry Pi achieve? Can the GPU be used?

A Raspberry Pi is a credit card sized $25 (or $45, for the deluxe option) computer, designed for educational use. Has anyone tried running mining software on it? If so, what's the hashrate like? (apparently the CPU is approximately equivalent to a…
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What are the minimal system requirements to run a full Bitcoin node?

I want to build a low profile system running as a full Bitcoin node, i.e. just running Bitcoin Core 0.9+ and pretty much nothing else. What is the minimal system (in terms of power consumption) that would be suitable for this task? Just bitcoind…
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Could the $25/£16 Raspberry Pi computer be used to run mining equipment?

Raspberry Pi $25/£16 PC article I saw this article today and it looks like a really interesting development in budget computing. It's a $25 barebones computer that runs Linux, and can play games like Quake 3 Arena with no problems. My question is…
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How to tell bitcoind to use more memory and CPU

I just updated my node to 0.12 and its going through its long verification process but I noticed that its not using very much memory/cpu pi 602 10.5 19.4 352220 184312 ? Ssl 21:57 1:28 /usr/local/bin/bitcoind…
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Is Bitcoin Core storage compatible across different machine architecture?

I want to run Bitcoin core on a raspberry PI (arm32v7), but the initial sync takes way too long. I am thinking importing the UTXO set from another of my node which run on x64. Would it work? Is it safe to assume it will always work?
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Bitcoin full node installation on Raspberry Pi3 not working

I'm trying to setup a Bitcoin full node including GUI & wallet based on guide on raspnode.com but I got stuck at the this point: 'i@raspnode~/bin/bitcoin$ make -j2' having this error: Making all in src make[1]: Entering directory…
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Is it possible to share blockchain data between multiple nodes?

I'm planning to create a Raspberry Pi Cluster in order to run several bitcoin nodes. Can I share parts of the ~/.bitcoin/ folder in order to not have to store the entire hundreds of GB for each of the nodes? My idea would be that one of the nodes…
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Is it still possible to do cpu mining for experimenting?

Commercially speaking I know it worse than pointless! But please, be gentle and don't remind me. Neither bother about being insulting or patronizing because I ask such a 'stupid' question. Thank you for your comprehension. The reason I'm wanting the…
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Efficient way to migrate a pruned node

I would like to know what are the step to succefully migrate a pruned node. I have a Raspnode (rPi2B+) and it is so slow that it doesnt seem to sync the blockchain after several days... I want to sync the node that I have in my laptop and move it…
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bitcoin-cli very slow to respond to RPC calls (Raspberry Pi)

Running Bitcoin 0.11 on Raspberry Pi 2 (Quad core 900MHz 1GB RAM, 128GB Flash Drive for blockchain, 8GB SD Card for OS and software). Blockchain is fully synced, 13 connections. In htop, I see I'm around 700/862MB RAM, 1/99MB Swap. 1 processor is up…
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Overclock Antminer U3 running on raspberry pi

I have an Antminer u3 running on a raspberry pi using bfgminer. Its currently running at 47GH/s. Does anyone know if is possible to over clock it using BGFminer so that it will run at 55 - 60 GH/s? if i cant do it using BFGminer is there another…
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UTXOs set size for small node

For several months the size of the UTXOs set has been exploding with almost 20MB more every day. So I would like to know from what size it may be a problem for small nodes such as Raspberry Pi 4 for example?
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How does bitcoind choose its data directory?

Sorry, noob question I am new to anything linux related. I managed to set up bitcoin core just fine on my raspberry pi 4 and I have an external HDD that I want to use as my data directory for the 250 GB or so of blocks (this is not my main storage…
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Can you run a bitcoin lightning node on a raspberry pi zero?

Will a bitcoin lightning node run on a raspberry pi zero? Does it have to have the full Bitcoin blockchain synced or can it connect to a remote node? Also what are the minimum requirements to get a lightning node up?
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Transferring wallet.dat from PC to Raspberry PI

I have the Stratis QT sofware running on my computer. I also have a working version of stratisd running on a raspberry pi, which I set up following this tutorial If I try to swap my wallet.dat on my Raspberry PI for the wallet.dat I have on my PC,…
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