Is Pine64 good for Ethereum?

[kermitas]

Hi,

does anybody consider to use Pine64 as an Ethereum node (like a go-ethereum)?

Will that work or is that a completely crazy idea?

Thanks,
Artur.

[Luke]

Never heard about Ethereum, but I'm pretty confident that it would run without an issue - seems to run on other SBCs, so I cannot see why there would be an issue on the Pine

[bitchinbob]

Hey Artur,
I am also interested in Ethereum mining. Were you able to get this working?

Bob

[kermitas]

Hey Artur,
I am also interested in Ethereum mining. Were you able to get this working?

Bob

No progress yet. I am just finishing this: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-0Pn6...kc5MDhjMjQ (there is no switch/router yet). Four Pines with Android+BOINC+Zika+Ebola+etc, one Pine with latest Ubuntu from longsleep with Tor rely and maybe later with Ethereum node.

[kermitas]

So I followed "Building from source" instructions, added 

nohup /root/Downloads/go-ethereum/build/bin/geth > /root/Downloads/go-ethereum/log.out 2>&1 &

to the /etc/rc.local and is seems to be working!

Of course it can not mine and I hope it does not try to execute any smart contract but I also hope that just keeping geth running is helpful for entire Ethereum network. What do you think?

[montero65]

"Four Pines with Android+BOINC+Zika+Ebola+etc"

Forgive my ignorance, I've heard of BOINC, but Zika and Ebola, safe to assume that is sarcasm?

[kermitas]

"Four Pines with Android+BOINC+Zika+Ebola+etc"

Forgive my ignorance, I've heard of BOINC, but Zika and Ebola, safe to assume that is sarcasm?

Just look at the one of the photos here https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-0Pn6...kc5MDhjMjQ and you will find that this is what my Pines do . By using BOINC and adding WorldComminityGrid my four Pines work hard on OpenZika and Outsmart Ebola Together. The others (Aids, proteins conformation) too if WorldCommunityGrid will assign me right samples.

Is that answering your question my friend?

[montero65]

Wow, that's pretty cool. So you're using them as a little cluster to help with computing power to fight Zika and Ebola? First I've ever heard of this WorldCommunityGrid thing, but that is awesome!

[kermitas]

Wow, that's pretty cool.  So you're using them as a little cluster to help with computing power to fight Zika and Ebola?  

Exactly. But for that I needed to use Android (and download BOINC from Google Play Store). On Ubuntu BOINC will say that this architecture is unknown so it will not get any samples to work on. 

First I've ever heard of this WorldCommunityGrid thing, but that is awesome!

WorldCommunityGrid is a small wrapper over few projects. You will also discover that BOINC is a wrapper, you can have WorldCommunityGrid in it as well as many other projects from different fields (astronomy, medicine, physics, math, ...).

[kermitas]

So I followed "Building from source" instructions, added 

nohup /root/Downloads/go-ethereum/build/bin/geth > /root/Downloads/go-ethereum/log.out 2>&1 &

to the /etc/rc.local and is seems to be working!

Of course it can not mine and I hope it does not try to execute any smart contract but I also hope that just keeping geth running is helpful for entire Ethereum network. What do you think?

After few days I am not sure if geth is working fine on Pine64. Do you have any experiences or thoughts on that? How can we see if geth is live and working fine?

(For now I am removing it from /etc/rc.local.)