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Hi all, looking for some help with my Raspberry Pi nodes; they only run solarcoind daemon not SolarCoin-Qt, is therea way to load the bootstrap of the blockchain?
I tried unzipping bootstrap.zip into .solarcoin directory but that didnt work. I set the solarcoin.conf with server=1 and daemon=1 as well. I tried starting solarcoind -rescan and solarcoind -loadblock=/home/pi/.solarcoin/bootstrap/blk0001.dat

Any ideas? Im making a new Raspberry Pi node for a friend and syncing the block-chain takes days.

You might have better luck taking your question to the slack channel.

https://solarcoin-group.slack.com/x-33423960289-36618089767/

Thanks I had asked on Telegram and Slack a few months ago, I realised I had not checked in with this forum though so thought it was worth asking.

If anyone wants to build a Raspberry Pi node, the instructions are on: https://github.com/Scalextrix/SolarCoin-Raspberry-Pi-Node

This is exactly what I was looking for! Great work! Thank you for taking the time to make this

Cool, lets run SolarCoin on low power! We may have someone trying on a Pi Zero soon, will update if it works.

This is def. the way to go. Although my intel PC stick has been doing a great Job! Im going to setup the raspberry Pi node as soon as I find the time. Does the raspberry pi Zero use even less power than the normal PI?

Possibly, but its not really the power draw that is the driving factor for that, a Pi 3 is $50 (plus extras) Pi Zero is $5. If you are doing an ROI as a calimant of SolarCoin, and we can get you a $5 device to standalone run the blockchain, I think that will be a cool idea. Of course this also is good for the ElectriCChain project because we can use the Pi as a datalogger that can be on 24/7 monitoring production and posting to block-chain.

Could look at it as a different business model also. Say you have a 50 dollar unit running the wallet with as many coins as you wish merely for investment purposes. There's no bad reason to invest in solar, but what if you're not ready to install panels on your roof, in your yard, etc? Well simply by investing in the technology you can be part of the rewards through staking. That's where I am right now. I don't have the resources to actually install panels, but the network needs nodes and the more nodes the better. The 5 dollar pi for data logging and nodes are still a great idea, but they won't appeal until the technology matures, unless you have a large enough SLR claim to make it worthwhile.

Yeah I was running my Pi3 with two coins for a while, but eventually the swap started getting used and the chains slowed down, so Im back to one coin per Pi now. I did see a HAT for a Pi2/3 that lets you add up to 4 PI Zeros https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/cluster-hat?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=googlepla&variant=22064645063&gclid=Cj0KEQiA56_FBRDYpqGa2p_e1MgBEiQAVEZ6-yYM9nzYNnscxFLXzsv7kAdL1ljDL3Q7xn2l3eZtDAEaAtyu8P8HAQ , I didnt read enough to see if it could run 5 coins though.