Fruitoftheloom wrote:This started off with a School Project, yes using the Pi as a teaching tool, and it has descended into WW3 and off-topic! World War Three? XD I thought we were discussing bitcoin mining on the pi. It's not off topic. Purpose Of Asch XAS Mining here. The reasons for the OP wanting Bitcoin Mining is as an exercise for his Pupils, not as an ecommerce venture So it's world war three?

XD Wait, he's a teacher now? It lead me to believe he was a student. But it's still futile to teach them it on the pi - do it on a different platform as the pi has a different setup and much more limited choices.

Digitalmouse wrote:I would suggest to be sure you use the high-end RPI 2's at least, or any number of variants like the BananaPi. These got a bit more 'horsepower' for your needs. And consider a small collection of PI's (4-6 is a good start) with a minimum of 32GB SD cards (need at least 20GB for working on a complete bitcoin block), that all report their earnings to a central Pi with a webpage for displaying the earnings to viewers of the project.

If you want to mine bitcoin then get yourself some ASIC hardware and use the RPI to control that.

Random Cryptocoin; Feathercoin is an open-source digital currency forked from Litecoin in 2013. The project's main innovation is NeoScrypt, a processor-intensive. I've been wanting to get my feet wet in SHA-256 mining as a hobby, so I went with the Raspberry Pi 3 with USB ASIC miners. I originally started within a $300 budget. CoinGecko started looking into how to mine Ethereum. This is a beginner's guide on how to get started with Ethereum mining.