{"id":10543,"date":"2014-03-16T20:26:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T00:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=10543"},"modified":"2014-03-16T20:26:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T00:26:53","slug":"pleasantly-futile-dogecoin-digging-on-the-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/16\/pleasantly-futile-dogecoin-digging-on-the-raspberry-pi\/","title":{"rendered":"Pleasantly futile: Dogecoin digging on the Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t recommend this in any way, but <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/pooler\/cpuminer\">cpuminer<\/a> will run on the Raspberry Pi. It&#8217;s pretty easy to build:<\/p>\n<p><code>sudo apt-get install build-essential libcurl4-openssl-dev automake git<br \/>\ngit clone https:\/\/github.com\/pooler\/cpuminer.git<br \/>\ncd cpuminer\/<br \/>\n.\/autogen.sh<br \/>\n.\/configure CFLAGS=\"-march=armv6 -mtune=arm1176jzf-s -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=vfp -ffast-math -ffast-math -O3\"<br \/>\nmake<br \/>\nsudo make install<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not convinced that the l33t funroll-l00pz CFLAGS are strictly necessary. Yes, you still only get 0.34 khash\/s on a stock Raspberry Pi \u00e2\u20ac\u201d which means it would take several days to earn 1\u00c4\u0090 (or roughly 0.1\u00c2\u00a2).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to find the most futile computer on which to dig \u00c4\u0090. My <a href=\"http:\/\/beagleboard.org\/Products\/BeagleBone%20Black\">BeagleBone Black<\/a> is (somewhat surprisingly) more than 2\u00c3\u2014 as fast, once you replace the very limited \u00c3\u2026ngstr\u00c3\u00b6m distribution with Debian. I&#8217;m really disappointed that I can&#8217;t build cpuminer on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intel.com\/content\/www\/us\/en\/do-it-yourself\/galileo-maker-quark-board.html\">Intel Galileo<\/a>. Its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yoctoproject.org\/\">Yocto<\/a> distribution is extremely small yet confusing. As the board runs burny hot under no load, I wonder how quickly it would glow white-hot under 100% CPU load.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t recommend this in any way, but cpuminer will run on the Raspberry Pi. It&#8217;s pretty easy to build: sudo apt-get install build-essential libcurl4-openssl-dev automake git git clone https:\/\/github.com\/pooler\/cpuminer.git cd cpuminer\/ .\/autogen.sh .\/configure CFLAGS=&#8221;-march=armv6 -mtune=arm1176jzf-s -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=vfp -ffast-math -ffast-math -O3&#8243; make sudo make install I&#8217;m not convinced that the l33t funroll-l00pz CFLAGS are strictly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[2723,2763,2798,2510],"class_list":["post-10543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-beagleboneblack","tag-doge","tag-dogecoin","tag-raspberrypi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-2K3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10544,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10543\/revisions\/10544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}