Lets get more Nodes and make it easy for people to run IOC wallets on the Raspberry Pi's! Trying to find out how to run a PoS wallet (i/ocoin) using a Pi.
This is the best post and reply i have read. (i have sent the poster a message)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/raspberry-pi-2-for-staking-1070558jc12345
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Re: Raspberry Pi 2 for staking
14 June 2015, 06:23:35
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I run all my wallets on Raspberry Pi. It works great for just about anything including solo mining, staking you name it. The only issue is that Qt5 libraries are not available yet to so ant apt-get install. It is possible to do a standalone compile of Qt5 but that becomes very tricky and the Qt5 compiles on a i looks ugly. In addition, compiling Qt5 on the Pi takes between 1-2 days.
In order to determine the strategy of a coins wallets on a Pi, look if the .Pro file has been setup for Qt5 or Qt4. If Qt4 then no problem it will compile, if Qt5 then skip Qt and just compile the headless daemon. You could always build your own Qt4 project if you really have the time and effort but it generally is not worth the effort. Here ans there are tricks to bypass the Qt5 issues like the qtwaitingspinner solution I mentioned in the one thread. In all cases headless daemon works perfectly fine. Qt wallets have a marginal advantage in that you can see visually what is going on with your coins and managing addresses with copy paste etc. There is nothing though that can be done with Qt wallet that you canot do with the daemon with a little bit more effort.
Iv posted several installation scripts for Pi wallets through the alt-coin section. If you want advice on a certain coin or want a script for it let me know.
EDIT: I would recommend the following 2 things for the headless daemon: 1) Change UPNP to "1" in the makefile.unix and 2) always check the src/leveldb/build_platform_detect to make sure it has read permissions for at least the account your compiling with, but it is ok to change it to "anyone" or world for the build.
PLEASE I/OCoin DEV Team. Lets get a User Guide (script or whats needed) so many more people can run the I/OCoin wallets easily and cheaply using the super popular Raspberry Pi's (latest versions probally best, Pi2's)
Thank you.
Funny ....sometimes all roads lead to same place.
I had asked jc12345 about setting up ioc wallet on a pi back in july.....it was in context of setting up pi to stake more than just one coin.
I didn't take it very far as I was under impression that when the team came out with the new wallet, the qt version wouldn't work and I wrongly assumed a wallet set up on a pi , based on the existing code wouldn't work either. I figured i'd wait for new wallet and them revisit the issue.
If its not the case, and a pi wallet will work even when new wallet finally comes out, then I guess it could addressed now.
Anyway, back in july jc12345 responded
"If you let me know the coins you want to run, depending on if I feel generous or not, I will help you build the wallets and set them up."
Maybe we could help his generosity a little by being generous ourselves and offer him or some one a bounty.
IOC already made it to be considered for an award by getting over 200 votes. Getting over 500 would not mean anything. Instead of giving 2,500 coins to 5 lucky IOC supporters, why not give that to jc12345 or anyone else who can set up a staking wallet on a pi?