MinePeon Raspberry Pi Bitcoin Mining Setup

My Raspberry Pi has been sitting unused for a couple of months now since I last explored using it as a cheap surveillance camera. This post on this project on Code Project is highly recommended. Then I read about MinePeon, a simple Bitcoin mining build for the Raspberry Pi, and I fell in love with the feature set and most importantly the simplicity in the install and setup. Until installing MinePeon, I had 7 USB Block Eruptors connected to my desktop churning away at what I could get with the current Bitcoin difficulty level. This provided an eyesore for my girlfriend and an additional set of connections sitting next to my primary desktop. MinePeon looked to be a perfect solution to both problems and it ended up being much more.

I downloaded the MinePeon build and loaded it on a 2GB SD card using Win32DiskImager and was able to get the Raspberry Pi connected to the network and the web interface loaded by the time it took to get back upstairs from my basement. Note: A nice feature of having a basement in Nebraska in winter is built in cooling! The interface is simple and at a glance gives a quick overview of what your miners are doing and some simple settings to change pools, miner alerts and a donation feature for the project author. I am thinking of upping my donation of 15 minutes a day to something a bit more generous since this has been one of the easiest software setups I have experienced. Check out the screenshot below to see the first beautiful page that loads once you find it’s IP address on your network and type it into your browser.

I then wanted to add a USB wifi dongle to the Pi and the instructions provided in the wiki were beyond simple and I was able to get wifi working within a few moments. I now have a simple mining rig that I can forget about downstairs where my girlfriend is happy and it will let me know if there are any problems. Also if needed, I can load the browser monitoring system that will show me all the relevant information I like to keep an eye on, which most miners probably obsess over like I like to.

The cryptocurrency community needs more tools like this and I want to thank @mineforeman for creating this great tool and I look forward to future improvements. You can find MinePeon here at Sourceforge and let me know if you have used this tool or if you give a try let me know what you think. Also if you do not have a Raspberry Pi yet, consider picking one up, you never know what next project it could come in handy.

And because I can not resist, if you enjoyed this post please consider a small Bitcoin donation at the following address: 1QFmKZtXRQVHTxYbi2BFncmmuyYEwk8D9m