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Bitcoin Mining on Your Raspberry Pi
by alexposcher Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency , a form of electronic cash. It is a decentralized digital currency without a central bank or single administrator that can be sent from user to user via the bitcoin network. There are two main methods for obtaining bitcoin: mining and purchasing. In this tutorial we will focus on cryptocurrency mining on the Raspberry Pi! Supplies: For your bitcoin miner you need the following equipment: Raspberry Pi AntMiner U3 USB Miner MicroSD Card with Raspbian Ethernet Cable or WiFi Dongle (Pi 3 has WiFi inbuilt) Power Adapter Raspberry Pi Cooling Case ( highly recommended )
Step 1: Construction
Raspbian, or any other appropriate operating system must be installed on the Raspberry Pi. How to install Raspbian on the Raspberry Pi? Construction
- Plug in the power adapter of the Raspberry Pi adapter and connect it to your Pi
- Connect the Pi to the internet
- Plug in the power adapter of the USB Miner and connect it to the USB Miner
- Connect to USB Miner to your Pi, by plugging the USB into the Raspberry Pi and the other end into the USB Miner
Step 2: Check for Updates
Type in this command to check for updates: sudo apt-get update You might have to upgrade your operating system too, if its a older version: sudo apt-get upgrade
Step 4: Enter a Mining Pool
A mining pool is the pooling of resources by miners , who share their processing power over a network , to split the reward equally , according to the amount of work they contributed to the probability of finding a block. How to enter a mining pool?
- Sign up to Slushpool
- Open the profile settings (click the user icon on the top right corner > click on 'Settings')
- Click on the 'Bitcoin' tab
- Click on 'BTC Payouts'
- Add your wallet address (on Coin Space, the address can be found by clicking on receive) You are now part of a mining pool! Optional: You can create workers by clicking on the workers tab and 'new worker'. 'worker1' is already created during the registration process.
Step 5: Install the Miner
The miner is responsible for the actual mining part. It uses the power of the USB Miner and searches for blocks. In this tutorial we use cgminer , a multi-threaded multi-pool miner for bitcoin.
- Install the dependencies sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0-dev libusb-1.0-0 libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev libudev-dev screen libtool automake pkg-config libjansson-dev screen
- Clone the cgminer repository from github git clone https://github.com/bitmaintech/cgminer
- Install and configure the miner cd cgminer sudo ./autogen.sh export LIBCURL_CFLAGS=’-I/usr/include/curl’ sudo ./configure --enable-bmsc sudo make
- Start the miner sudo ./cgminer --bmsc-options 115200:0.57 -o POOL -u USERNAME -p PASSWORD --bmsc- voltage 0800 --bmsc-freq 1286 POOL: the url to the pool. Default: stratum+tcp://stratum.slushpool.com: USERNAME: [your_slushpool_username].[your_worker] Default: yourusername.worker PASSWORD: anything, you don't need to enter your login password For more information about available pools on slushpool click here. I highly recommend using a cooling case for your Raspberry Pi, to avoid overheating.
