Hey folks!

For those of you that want to solo mine on a Raspberry Pi (because there is no pool miner for ARM), I can give you some insights over the past few weeks of getting things working.

First of all, it DOES work. But, it is not easy.  You have to install a 64 bit operating system (and then possibly resize the SD card for more space),install/find compatible software that runs 64 bit, compile libdb, etc. and when it starts to hash, the most you will get out of the box is only about 287Khash/sec. The reason for this is because the Raspberry Pi foundation did not purchase the licenses to put the crypto extensions on the die of their Cortex A53 CPUs. That was a very unfortunate discovery.

If you have a different ARMV8 processor, then it is a lot easier to get it up and running. As I mentioned before I am using Pine64 boards and with the source code fork from Rollmeister, I am consistently getting about 3.8 to 4Mh/s. I say this because it is over a 10 to 1 ratio to the Pi. It has been confirmed that the Orange Pi ARMV8 boards work as well by Rollmeister.

Granted, if the Pis are all you have (and it should be the Pi 3, Pi3B+, or the Pi3 A+), and you want to see how something like this works, then by all means give it try. 

Hope this helps!


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