Bitcoin Node with RaspiBlitz
Make the Bitcoin network bigger with a Pi and a large storage device.
You’d be hard pushed to find a large-enough SD card to store the blockchain, so get yourself an external
YOU’RE NOT GOING TO get rich mining Bitcoin on a Raspberry Pi. Even with dedicated ASIC mining hardware, it’s hard to compete with industrial operations in countries with subsidized electricity supplies. It’s the same for other cryptocurrencies too – see www.tomshardware.com/uk/how-to/ mine-cryptocurrency-raspberry-p.
Yet you can still use RaspiBlitz to turn your Pi into a full Bitcoin node and store your bitcoins locally —you’re essentially self-sovereign as you haven’t entrusted your keys to others and you aren’t relying on other nodes to supply information. To quote the RaspiBlitz manual: “Not your node, not your rules”.