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Re: News of a mini RasPi for 5$ How could this change bitcoin mining?
by
Meech
on 28/11/2015, 04:13:29 UTC
For those in the US, I read from the rPi site that MagPi will be your end in 2 weeks (actually 3 weeks from printing as sent by ship)!

Now for the tinkerers who'd rather end up with a $30+ PiZERO contraption of a bitcoin mining rig controller, here's some inspiration .... this guy is working on a daughter board that adds wifi .... though for CNC https://openhardwarecoza.wordpress.com/2015/11/27/raspberry-pi-zero-grbl-all-in-one-cnc-controller/
For those that follow each new Pi release you know for the first 2-3 months they are sold way above value.

So waiting three weeks and buying one in a magazine for $16 is well worth it.
Thank you for the heads up of the possible wait on the December issue in the US.

For use as a mining controller it makes sense, just add a cheap wifi adapter
but for Kodi and many other uses it just is too expensive with the additional addons.

Too bad it's not a stripped down Pi2.  But fun none the less.