Raspberry Pi Bitcoin Tracker. First open the crontab with the following command. This isn t required but it is a good and safe way to shut down your pi when you re not using it like if your spouse gets tired of the bitcoin price glowing at night.
This isn t required but it is a good and safe way to shut down your pi when you re not using it like if your spouse gets tired of the bitcoin price glowing at night. Since the raspberry pi doesn t ship with a physical power button you may want to add your own. Technically raspberry pi can mine bitcoin by using special software and slightly higher specifications than normal.
My initial research showed that mining for bitcoins with any consumer grade computer is not profitable when factoring in the cost of electricity.
The command is executed every 5 minutes. You might be interested in bitcoin if you like cryptography distributed peer to peer systems or economics. It went well but it was a rather complicated process. My second attempt ran into a host of problems which proved to be insurmountable.
