Did you ever wanted to try your hand at mining crypto currency? I did. And I even got it to work on a Raspberry Pi. Okay I did not get rich overnight, but it worked and for a nerd like me that is really fun. If you want to try this yourself, follow the instructions below and watch my Youtube video for details on mining pool setup and even how to send your coins to an Exchange to buy Bitcoin. Ha! who said you can’t mine Bitcoin with a Raspberry BUYAH!
Okay the starting point of these instructions is a freshly installed Raspberry with either Raspbian Stretch (Lite version will do fine) or Pi64. Both work, but I found that Pi64 got a little higher Hashing rate. You can follow my instructions on how to install an image and configure a Pi via this link if you need to and I forked the Pi64 image location to my Github page here.
So you booted up your Pi and are looking at the command prompt. Let’s first update everything and get that out of the way.
sudo apt-get update -y && sudo apt-get upgrade -y
Now install all the dependencies to get your mining rig running.
sudo apt-get install autoconf libcurl4-openssl-dev libjansson-dev openssl libssl-dev gcc gawk wget unzip make
Download the mining software and unzip it
wget https://github.com/conan-equal-newone/yenten/releases/download/1.1.0/yenten_minerd_source.zip
unzip yenten_minerd_source.zip
Do some configuring
cd yenten_miner
sudo chmod 700 *
sudo touch ChangeLog
sudo ./autogen.sh
sudo ./configure
sudo make -j4
If all went well we are now able to mine the Altcoin named Yenten. It is a Japanese coin and will become the world only currency in about 10 years or so I’m told. But for now it is almost worth 2 cents at the moment of writing this post.
Be sure to watch my video in order to understand how to get a wallet where all your mining spoils will be send to from the mining pool. Oh and you will also see how to create and configure your miningpool account. So be sure to check it. The video isn’t my greatest work (yet) but it is my first step on my very own Youtube channel.
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Once you have done the wallet and the miningpool thingy, you are clear to mine some coins. Just give the following command (and replace my account, workername and password with yours).
sudo ./minerd -a yescryptr16 -t 4 -o stratum+tcp://yenten.luckypool.org:3344 -u jiltednl.pi001 -p password
Oh and if you become a miljonair with this great tutorial, email me for my bankaccount number. Thank you.
This is my own mining rig by the way. Impressive right?
