Mining Monero on a Raspberry Pi for 24 Hours
The Raspberry Pi is a low cost, credit-card sized computer that plugs into a computer monitor or TV, and uses a standard keyboard and mouse. It is a capable little device that enables people of all ages to explore computing, and to learn how to program in languages like Scratch and Python. It’s capable of doing everything you’d expect a desktop computer to do, from browsing the internet and playing high-definition video, to making spreadsheets, word-processing, and playing games.
What’s more, the Raspberry Pi has the ability to interact with the outside world, and has been used in a wide array of digital maker projects, from music machines and parent detectors to weather stations and tweeting birdhouses with infra-red cameras. We want to see the Raspberry Pi being used by kids all over the world to learn to program and understand how computers work.
Monero (/məˈnɛroʊ/; Abbreviation: XMR) is a decentralized cryptocurrency. It uses a public distributed ledger with privacy-enhancing technologies that obfuscate transactions to achieve anonymity and fungibility. Observers cannot decipher addresses trading monero, transaction amounts, address balances, or transaction histories.
The protocol is open source and based on CryptoNote, a concept described in a 2013 white paper authored by Nicolas van Saberhagen. The cryptography community used this concept to design Monero, and deployed its mainnet in 2014. Monero uses ring signatures, zero-knowledge proofs, “stealth addresses”, and IP address–obscuring methods to obfuscate transaction details. These features are baked into the protocol, though users can optionally share view keys for third-party auditing. Transactions are validated through a miner network running RandomX, a proof-of-work algorithm. The algorithm issues new coins to miners, and was designed to be resistant to application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) mining.
Monero has the third-largest developer community among cryptocurrencies, behind Bitcoin and Ethereum. Its privacy features have attracted cypherpunks and users desiring privacy measures not provided in other cryptocurrencies. It is increasingly used in illicit activities such as money laundering, darknet markets, ransomware, and cryptojacking. The United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has posted bounties for contractors that can develop monero-tracing technologies.[2]
22 Comments
Get a heatsink
YOU SIR, ARE HOOD RICH AF!
you didn't run it as root (sudo) so msr couldn't apply, so you get a lower hashrate aka less money
just get 40 of em and you get a buck daily
The outro song at the end was gold! 😂
Ay yo could I see the back of that credit card real quick u know
"Very natural voice"
5 cents in earning and $5 worth of electricity? Hahaha
4 quad core cpu's was my favorite part, mans not too bright
You DO NOT need Kraken for a monero address.
Please send me your 4 quad cores
probably bad pool, cpu throttling and not running as sudo for at least 30% more efficiency. coul be much more than 5 cents
5 cents probably won't even be enough to pay for the power used
The minor is running
lol mining with no cooler, why not just throw the pi in the bin if your just going to create e-waste out of it?
I thought anybody could figure out that 5 Watts isn't going to do any mining that's worth it. ..
That first part sounds ai generated
Me who bought 1000 of these
5 cent minus the electricity bill?
Throttling++. Mined for a month to see how it would go (as an fyi you wont make enough to withdraw it) using a standard pc fan blowing on a static cooling case (case is metal and distributes the heat from the pi). Could get a small overclock and so more monero and even then it was about 5000x less than worthwhile.
As i did, super fun experiment, feel free to reply and ill try help out if you want to yourself, but with a pi alone you wont even get enough to withdraw it from a pool and have it yourself. I also suggest mine raptoreum, the blockchain is about 2gb last i recall vs the 80gb of the monero chain, and because it isnt untraceable (and the way it works) like monero, it doesnt require an ssd to set up. With a pi and several others of my machines, it mines rtm faster. Oddly just not the 6 core xeons. Many people mining monero on pools actually mine raptoreum and then get paid in monero.
The Raspberry Pi 4 really needs to be used with a heatsink!
Keep it up and you will at Elon musk's level in 6months