Raspberry pi bitcoin monitor
However it was executable in the past. What was changed is the blocks are fully filled to 1MB right now. There are also new features implemented by Bitcoin Core in last years few years. I have to agree all that made setup of independent node a little harder, but not impossible. We are near 6 weeks before SegWit activation. It is perfect time to show Your vote if we want new feature to be activated or not. It is all Your choice.
To be honest I am very interested in the way how SegWit things will happen. While connecting Raspberry Pi to power is trivial I wanted to achieve more. Headless minicomputer is too ugly for me. I decided to 3D print one of the projects from thingiverse. The case I found turned out to match perfectly with the rest of my parts. The quality of the parts aren't the best but pretty decent. I am okay with that. Here comes the coding thing. It is official Raspberry Pi operating system.
Just download and write that onto SD card. After configuring basic settings like WiFi connection, hostname and local settings, it's time to launch display screen.
I remember how difficult was to properly configure this display on Raspberry Pi. The drivers juggle was a madness. Luckily newest waveshare drivers made that very easy process for me. It all came to type just few commands.
Next step was to display something prettier than just console terminal. I think this is the best choice for my display. Set it in fullscreen POS style for best utility. And finally set the kiosk mode directing to http: I don't wanted to run full Bitcoin node. Pruning to MB is enough to be light node. It synchronizes with full blockchain and checks every block for theirs compatibility but saves only last MB of blockchain on the disk.
This is what I wanted to achieve. I had some issues in the middle of compiling the sources of Bitcoin Core application. According to Core, it is recommended to have at least 1,5GB of memory available. To be honest I am very interested in the way how SegWit things will happen. While connecting Raspberry Pi to power is trivial I wanted to achieve more. Headless minicomputer is too ugly for me. I decided to 3D print one of the projects from thingiverse.
The case I found turned out to match perfectly with the rest of my parts. The quality of the parts aren't the best but pretty decent.
I am okay with that. Here comes the coding thing. It is official Raspberry Pi operating system. Just download and write that onto SD card. After configuring basic settings like WiFi connection, hostname and local settings, it's time to launch display screen. I remember how difficult was to properly configure this display on Raspberry Pi. The drivers juggle was a madness. Luckily newest waveshare drivers made that very easy process for me. It all came to type just few commands.
Next step was to display something prettier than just console terminal. I think this is the best choice for my display. Set it in fullscreen POS style for best utility. And finally set the kiosk mode directing to http: I don't wanted to run full Bitcoin node. Pruning to MB is enough to be light node. It synchronizes with full blockchain and checks every block for theirs compatibility but saves only last MB of blockchain on the disk.
This is what I wanted to achieve. I had some issues in the middle of compiling the sources of Bitcoin Core application. According to Core, it is recommended to have at least 1,5GB of memory available. The problem is my Raspberry Pi has only 1GB. It made compilation very slow and took few hours, but ended without errors.
As You see, it was needed to configure with specific parameters. The downside of this solution was the compiling time which took 6 hours Before run of bitcoin client I had to set configuration options in bitcoin. This is optional and only my preference. I started downloading blockchain about 2 weeks ago.