Siacoin SC Mining With Raspberry Pi
Hi guys, Out of all the altcoins, Siacoin is one I really, really believe in a lot. Maybe it's because I just am not happy with the cloud services out there currently. I want to host.
However, I cannot afford to have my laptop running 24/7 as I need to take it on the go and use it for business. THEREFORE, what is the cheapest way of hosting? Is the best bet getting a Raspberry Pi 3 with a removable harddrive? How easy and secure is this for a noob like me? ALSO, I am interested in mining. What's the cheapest way of doing this on a separate device? Raspberry Pi 3?
I want to help Sia out massively, and make Siacoin in the process! Any advice would be greatly welcome! Best, AJ • • • • •. I want to host. Before you start, hosting won't help Sia at this point. Sia has an excess of hosts and a shortage of renters. There's about 3.3 PB of storage capacity available, but only ~100 TB (3%) is in use.
ALSO, I am interested in mining. What's the cheapest way of doing this on a separate device?
Raspberry Pi 3? Raspberry Pi probably won't be capable of mining, and even if it is, won't have enough power to ever reach the 500 SC payout minimum of Siacoin mining pools.
I wrote a guide on how to set up your computer to automatically mine when you're not using it, but if you only have a laptop, your GPU is likely not compatible: The best way you can help Sia right now is to help organize the information about it. Read this sub, research what you can, and help answer questions. Write tutorials for things nobody has covered yet, but get asked a lot. Hi mtlynch, Many thanks for this. How Much Can You Make From DigiByte DGB Mining there.
Has anyone successfully run Sia on a Raspberry Pi? Deposit and withdraw in SC. 110 15 comments. Come On People. Sia on RasPi?
I am hardly in a position to answer too many questions as I am basically a noob. But I can obviously link stuff to Siacoin on my websites and such, so I'll do that.
No worries if the Raspberry Pi 3 isn't capable of mining; I would really want to host on it. Is that possible?
Of course, I hear what you are saying about too many hosts and not enough renters. I actually read your guide before and could not get it to work. I don't know if that is because it won't work on my laptop, or because I'm too noobish to understand all this techy stuff. Best, AJ • • • • • • •. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I was also worried that something might go wrong with SiaBerry OS and rinse all my coins or whatever.
Maybe I should just buy a £200 laptop then and host and mine that way.:'-( So, to sum up: • Maybe host, but there's no need right now; it's just for banter. • Maybe mine, but probably pointless when I can just buy Siacoin fairly cheaply on exchanges and this won't help SC spread. • Get a new computer, but not a Raspberry Pi 3, to do hosting on. • SPREAD THE WORD via social networking and my websites (I get a couple of thousand views per month, so that's something I guess). To help four along, what do you reckon is the best way to get people into this who don't even know what Bitcoin is let alone anything to do with Siacoin? • • • • • • •.
To help four along, what do you reckon is the best way to get people into this who don't even know what Bitcoin is let alone anything to do with Siacoin? I find it's most useful to just show people what they can do with Sia. I've written a few blog posts like that.
Get a new computer, but not a Raspberry Pi 3, to do hosting on. To mine, it's just about the GPU. I give examples. You'll probably see that you won't get a good ROI for any of these if you're trying to make money. If you want to host, consider getting a NAS that supports Docker, then setting Sia up on it.
That's what I've done: That way, you get to host and you get a storage server out of it. • • • • • • •.
Has anyone successfully run Sia on a Raspberry Pi? I tried setting up the ARM 0.5.1 release on my RasPi 2 B+, but it got stuck at block 21040.
I restarted siad and then it got stuck at block 21070, but now it stays there even after restarts. I can see it's using ~98% CPU and 40% memory. I had the consensus directory symlinked to point to a network share and I thought maybe that was messing things up, so I got rid of the symlink and made it a regular local folder, but I still had the same result. It's worth noting that the consensus.db file is 134217728 bytes (exactly 128 MiB).