
Two Mining pools I recommend and have verified are: Slush’s Pool BTC Guild For people with slower rigs, pooled mining might be the only way you ever earn bitcoins. Pooled Mining is a nice way to receive smaller and more regular payouts instead. Due to the competitive nature of mining, if you tried to mine on your own it could be a long time before you successfully mined anything. Pooled Mining allows multiple users to work together to “crack” a single bitcoin and then share the benefits fairly. Mining Poolsīitcoin Pooled Mining is the best way to get started mining. Windows/MAC/Linux Multi-Bit – Quick and Lightweight Bitcoin Wallet Bitcoin-QT – Takes a day or two to download ~6gigs of Bitcoin Transactional Data Armory – Desktop Add-on ApplicationĬurrently the app store does not allow any bitcoin wallet applications.
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I’ve listed a few below but there are many more and each method has its own risks, luckily has a great writeup on how to choose a wallet.


There are countless options(Software, Web, Mobile) when it comes to setting up a bitcoin wallet. Bitcoin Walletsīefore we setup the Mining software on the Pi we need to setup a bitcoin wallet where we will store the credit from the mining. **The Pi alone can not power one of these miners, a Powered USB HUB is mandatory to mine bitcoin. To get started, here is our shopping list (if you are reading this, you probably already own some of these items): Shopping List QTYĪSICMiner Erupter USB 336MH/s Sapphire Bitcoin Miner I’m sure there are also others like myself who are just looking to learn more about cryptocurrencies. But I am writing this anyways for posterity’s sake as I know for a fact there are people out there who have idle Raspberry Pis and are looking for a project. First off, I know this post is a little late in the game as it is becoming less profitable for amateurs to mine Bitcoins, and that there are more efficient ways to go about this.
