ARM BitcoinLE Update.

It Works on the Pine64 board!

Following the directions on the github site for the build, adding the right repositories, and compiling libunivalue worked. I had to compile it because it was not part of the Pine64 repository and could not find it anywhere.

A couple of findings.

If you try to compile the code with make and use the -j option to speed things up by assigning more threads to the process, it most likely will fail. I tried first running make -j4 and had two failures. Then I tried make -j2 and got one failure, but it compiles successfully, albeit slowly running make.

Why did I do this? Well, I have one Pine64 board which is about twice as fast as a Raspberry Pi 3 from a CPU hashing metric, and costs 15 dollars. I also have a Pinebook (a Pine64 laptop that costs less than a hundred dollars.) and wanted to see these work.

Another snag, though is that I needed to have 153 GB of free space, and these being single board computers running on microSD cards,  and it just does not have the space.

What I am wondering is, can I network attach some storage, mount it and keep a single copy of the bitcoin blockchain data and share it with other miners on different computers? Do I need a separate copy for each? Would it be too slow?

Thoughts? 

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