As a part of our drive to introduce Ethereum to the far corners of the world, to not point out reveal the potential for embedded blockchain know-how (even with out light-nodes) I am completely satisfied to announce the roll-out of our “eπ” Ethereum-on-Raspberry Pi programme.
As a part of our programme, we’re providing a full-kit for putting a full Ethereum node on the web to communities world wide. Included within the package is a Raspberry Pi (model 2), energy connector and SD card preloaded with all software program required to run an Ethereum Frontier node. The one factor that have to be provided by the applicant is energy and web. Earlier than you ask, no they will not make a very good miner (apart from the rest, they do not have practically sufficient GPU RAM). Nevertheless, they’re going to act as archive nodes, confirm and transmit blocks and transactions and customarily add to the celebration ambiance.
We have now fairly just a few of those to offer away so please use our online form. Everyone seems to be welcome to use however we’re particularly in search of colleges, universities and communities within the oft-forgotten far reaches of the world.
In case you do not make it in to the programme, however fancy organising a low-cost node anyway (these gadgets are round $50 every) then Christoph has helpfully offered a howto, to get you in your method.
In different information, Olympic is whirring away and there nonetheless loads of Ether to be received by folks keen to mine or code just a few scripts to hammer the community with transactions. I’ve arrange an Ether Faucet on Olympic (named as such within the Ethereum title registry), so go forward and bag your self a little bit of free Ether!