hi,
did you also try the full node with raspberry pi?
downloading blockchain and stuff
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To answer my own question the power draw of the current Raspberry Pi is 5 volts at 700mA. There are solar cell panels that exist that can be bought quite easily to perform this task. You'd probably want to build in a rudimentary charging/regulator circuit with a battery to prevent voltage fluctuations screwing things up.
If I get a chance, I'll try it out myself.
If I get a chance, I'll try it out myself.
Would it be possible to make bitcoin nodes using these and some kind of solar charging/discharge circuit? I'm not familiar with the power requirements. That would be pretty damn cool. Then just start installing them in places with weather-proof enclosures, etc...
open to suggestions for software to test or try and run on the Pi, and just any other general thoughts and ideas.
I'ld like to see a Raspberry Pi function purposed as an offline wallet creator:
- https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/offline-paper-wallet-creator-raspberry-pi-74615
I have bitcoind running on my Raspberry Pi since a week or so.
It didn't take more than few minutes to install archlinuxarm and then install the bitcoin-daemon package.
In order to save time, I copied the blockchain from another server, and it just ran.
Actually, between the arrival time of the Raspberry Pi package and the running bitcoin it was less than 1h.
The daemon does take 70% of the memory, but it works. Even over tor.
I should just mention that I also tried to compile the bitcoin code on the Raspberry Pi (as I didn't feel like setting a cross compile toolchain), but the compilation died due to out of memory.
On the last weekend in bitcoin-hackathon.com in Berlin, I showed it.
It didn't take more than few minutes to install archlinuxarm and then install the bitcoin-daemon package.
In order to save time, I copied the blockchain from another server, and it just ran.
Actually, between the arrival time of the Raspberry Pi package and the running bitcoin it was less than 1h.
The daemon does take 70% of the memory, but it works. Even over tor.
I should just mention that I also tried to compile the bitcoin code on the Raspberry Pi (as I didn't feel like setting a cross compile toolchain), but the compilation died due to out of memory.
On the last weekend in bitcoin-hackathon.com in Berlin, I showed it.
I'm not sure if it would be possible to run the Qt client due to the high cpu/disk usage during the block chain download, but if someone thinks otherwise let me know.
I used to compile and run the command-line bitcoind on several ARM systems. The slowest of these had 400 MHz CPUs and 128 MB of memory (one of them a Nokia N800). I cannot see any reason why the Pi could not run the full graphical version, as it should not add much CPU/disk load compared to the daemon.
Let me know when one of you built a vending machine or something cool.
On an off-topic thought. Could this run a PirateBox?
Cheers.
This help page might be useful for you:
http://multibit.org/help_runFromUSBDrive.html
The only other thing is what Java Runtime Environments are available for the Raspberry Pi, which I do not know I must admit.
This help page might be useful for you:
http://multibit.org/help_runFromUSBDrive.html
The only other thing is what Java Runtime Environments are available for the Raspberry Pi, which I do not know I must admit.
I am envious!
I have my Raspberry Pi on order to see if I can get MultiBit running from the SD card. It should work.
They are so cheap they have great potential as your savings wallet. Load one up with the keys you want for your savings wallet. Most of the time it sits in your safe/ deposit box/ wherever you keep your valuables. Take it out when you want to top up your 'current account'.
I have my Raspberry Pi on order to see if I can get MultiBit running from the SD card. It should work.
They are so cheap they have great potential as your savings wallet. Load one up with the keys you want for your savings wallet. Most of the time it sits in your safe/ deposit box/ wherever you keep your valuables. Take it out when you want to top up your 'current account'.
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