How to mine Monero on the Raspberry Pi
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9 min readDec 30, 2021
The Raspberry Pi can be used to mine cryptocurrencies. But how profitable can it be?
The Raspberry Pi can be used to mine cryptocurrencies, but how profitable can mining on the Pi be?
In the last article, I tried mining Duino-Coin and the result is that in about a year I can buy a coffee (but not at Starbucks):
This time we will try to mine Monero and see how good can our profitability be with my old Raspberry Pi 3:
I used Ubuntu Server 20.04.3 LTS (which supports RPI 3,4,400 on the 64-bit version) and an old Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2 that I had lying around.
Installation
Installing Ubuntu on the Raspberry Pi is a very straightforward process, you can find detailed documentation on the Ubuntu website:
