Quote from: emccurry86 on October 31, 2018, 09:52:12 PM

Alrighty-then! Wink

Can I format it and/or load a new operating system on to it as it is built from a raspberry pi 2. can i use raspbian on this?
A copy of the blockchain on microsd came with it so that could be useful to have as well.

Thanks for more info!
Edward Grin

YOU ARE OUT OF LUCK--

Here are some reasons: The ASIC needs to be connected to the server that is no longer in existence, this is coded in the chip and not removable. The chip is proprietary, it does not use "stratum + TCP", it has some protocol named "twisted + TCP" or similar, according to a photo in a review.

The Raspberry Pi v2 is ok as a Raspberry Pi, but there is no software for the proprietary ASIC, period. And, the BTC blockchain is now too large for the original 128GB micro-SD card. Any supplied wallet software (?) is obsolete as a wallet, recent modifications make it unusable. If you are able to copy just the blockchain as a snapshot, a current wallet might load it and save time on the initial synchronization. A disk of 256GB or larger would be needed.

Given a 256GB SD card, the Raspberry Pi could load a current BTC wallet and synchronize. The operating system could be any compatible with an Rpi. The Rpi could then drive a GekkoScience USB stick miner and solo-mine BTC on the Rpi. Any blockchain applications would need to be coded from scratch.

The proprietary ASIC is worthless, not usable. It cannot function as intended without the 21.co server. And, BTW, I asked you at least twice how to power it up with no exact response. I returned my unit for a refund without ever powering it up. --scryptr