Peercoin on Raspberry Pi

Very cool to see another peercoin pi installed! :pbjt:
The full node is pretty safe, as by default there is no sshd or any other remote access service running. You can keep your raspbian software up to date with the ‘update my pi software’ icon, this starts sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y upgrade

To setup I have running is 2 pi’s, one is minting with my actual wallet, and acts as a full node only within my home network. The other is acting as a full node with port forwarding. This way incoming connections will always connect with the empty wallet, so not much can go wrong.

[quote=“bigreddmachine, post:40, topic:2353”]This was a really cool project. I’ve been thinking about getting into Peercoin, but since it is so hard to mine for a normal guy with just a PC, I have been trying out other coins instead. I was looking for a help guide on doing something like this for another coin, and was pleasantly surprised to find this opportunity from a simple google search. I tend to be a redditor, so you will probably see me more there than here, but I hope to become a somewhat active member of the community.

Here are my pictures of my Pi and my Pi’s desktop. While this was a little harder to complete than I expected, as usual with an R-Pi project I feel like I learned quite a bit along the way! I hope that we are able to get safely minting on a full node sorted out, as this would be awesome![/quote]

Congratulations! Your tip has been sent :slight_smile:

Now, a further node is running!

Feels great :pbjt: :pbjt:

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Thanks for this great action!

[quote=“peerfan, post:43, topic:2353”]Now, a further node is running!

Feels great :pbjt: :pbjt:[/quote]

Tip sent :pbjt:

It would be nice to see a photo of the Pi too :slight_smile:

I’m up to 52 connections now but still can’t see my node there:

http://bitinfocharts.com/ppcoin/nodes-active/

Is this site still being updated?

Thanks for the tip! I confirmed that I received it when I got home from work today. I am going to spend some more time looking into minting on the Pi =)

Also, trying to get my friend to give this a shot - he fiddles with his Raspberry Pi a decent bit but hasn’t gotten into Bitcoin/Peercoin/etc yet. Sounded interested so we’ll see if he posts here!

[quote=“mably, post:45, topic:2353”]I’m up to 52 connections now but still can’t see my node there:

http://bitinfocharts.com/ppcoin/nodes-active/

Is this site still being updated?[/quote]

I don’t see mine either. Very interested in hearing what others think! I was at 27 last I checked.

I think that the site has been down for some time. I have sent a e-mail to the site explaining the problem. I’m sure it won’t hurt if more people do that. The e-mail address is: bitinfocharts@gmail.com

[quote=“river333, post:38, topic:2353”]Thanks to Novelty Lab for posting about this on their blog: http://blog.noveltylab.com/2014/05/spreading-peercoin-on-pi-get-10-ppc.html
:)[/quote]

You’re welcome! How is going so far? We will continue to share it on Twitter too :slight_smile:

Hi folks, I just set up another node for PPC:

My RPi’s setup is headless, so please don’t judge me for these “suspicious” title bars in the second image that come from Xming. :wink:

Meanwhilst, there are 12 active connections.

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Thank you!

(Re-post with a valid number of connections in the image)

Hey honkytonky,

You’re looking really good. I think normally river333 would have been by to send you your tip by now, but he is a very busy guy.

Don’t worry he will be by this way and he will send you your tip. He is very good about that.

Congratulations! :pbjt: On setting up a full Peercoin node on RPi! :pbjt:

And by the way, that clear Raspberry Pi case you have is the most attractive I have seen! Can you tell us where you got it?

Thanks, Congratulations, and Best to You,

NewMoneyEra

Any idea how long it would take a Raspberry Pi to download, confirm, and sync the Bitcoin blockchain? ;D

I don’t remember it exactly, but it’s a lot slower than a PC. I think 4 to 6 hours or so.

Definitely, the blockchain confirmation step is crucial.

However, you can do this process on any machine and copy the result anywhere, i.e. the data directory with all files and sub-directories. Just have a look at https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Data_directory. For Peercoin you will find a analogous structure.
In our case make sure

[ul][li]you’re running the same version on all machines, e.g. ppc-0.4.0[/li]
[li]you kill any ppcoind process that lock the database. In particular you should not have started the 2nd part of Tea42 guidelines after which the peercoin daemon will be restarted automatically[/li]
[li]you don’t copy/overwrite your wallet.dat unless you know what you do[/li][/ul]

For reference you may search for “Bitcoin transfer blockchain”.

Congratulations to honkytonky, tip sent. Sorry about the delay.

[quote=“mably, post:45, topic:2353”]I’m up to 52 connections now but still can’t see my node there:

http://bitinfocharts.com/ppcoin/nodes-active/

Is this site still being updated?[/quote]

This may answer your question:

http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=2572.msg21837#msg21837

“So that site isn’t 100% accurate. The node information may not coincide with current live nodes”

[quote=“honkytonky, post:54, topic:2353”]Definitely, the blockchain confirmation step is crucial.

However, you can do this process on any machine and copy the result anywhere,[/quote]

That’s cheating. I get your point.

My question was targetted towards how long would it take a Raspberry Pi to download, confirm, and sync Bitcoin by itself? My guess is a month.

[quote=“ppcman, post:56, topic:2353”][quote=“mably, post:45, topic:2353”]I’m up to 52 connections now but still can’t see my node there:

http://bitinfocharts.com/ppcoin/nodes-active/

Is this site still being updated?[/quote]

This may answer your question:

http://www.peercointalk.org/index.php?topic=2572.msg21837#msg21837

“So that site isn’t 100% accurate. The node information may not coincide with current live nodes”[/quote]

Thanx for your answer. In fact the site seems totally frozen: numbers for France haven’t changed for one full week.

oopsy i didnt see the word ‘bitcoin’ there :slight_smile: For ppc its about 6 hours i think (not 100% sure, can be longer), so for btc… 6 * 22 / 0,3 = 440 hours? at least…

Here we are, an Italian node up and running. :pbjt:

I’ll keep it with desktop a few days then I’ll switch to shell only to free some resurces. and switch to headless +ssh


Edit:
here’s the address to copypaste: P96av651PHhzsV3uqFJVc1KDjvGH44zzj7
now connections are 13…

is there an alternative to this site to check nodes that are online? http://bitinfocharts.com/ppcoin/nodes-active/