• monerobull@monero.town
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    1 year ago

    You can mine on a raspberry pi 4, you just won’t ROI in like, the next multiple decades.

    Pi5 seems to have AES so it might actually be an alright Monero node though :)

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      1 year ago

      Amazing that they finally quit being cheapskates and decided to pay for the crypto instruction extension that every other ARM producer in the world has included for the past 8 years already. I wonder what changed their minds.

      So it’s another Broadcom chip quadcore with only 2MB L3 cache. I.e., only enough cache to run a single RandomX thread. The other cores will be wasted.

      These have always been and continue to be worthless junk. For practical use these days you need closer to 4GB RAM per core, and of course 2MB cache per core. This thing only has enough resources to utilize 1 core.

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        1 year ago

        I myself used a rock pi 4 for a while to run a node but have gone back to running it on a more powerful machine and in docker. Raspberries used to be cool but now there are way better alternives.

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    1 year ago

    I hope so, would be cool to see a custom rig with a few dozen of them combined.