Yes you read the title right. There is a cryptocurrency that can be mined with the arduino. This cryptocurrency is called Duino Coin or DUCO. Its a somewhat new cryptocurrency that operates on the ERC-20 chain. Its very easy to mine and I will tell you how to do that.
A Little Info
The cryptocurrency duino coin was designed so that there would be low electricity costs and be eco friendly. Its very simple and easy to use. All you have to do is go to the website https://duinocoin.com and click web wallet or get started make a wallet and then follow the next steps.
Mining Duino Coin
If you want to mine duino coin you should not mine it with high end hardware. You want to mine it with low end hardware such as the arduino uno or raspberry pi pico. The reason for this is duino coin aims to be a eco-friendly cryptocurrency so they reward you with less crypto than you would get mining with a 5 dollar computer so that you dont use as much energy mining with a expensive pc. This is truly a great thing to do and you should give duino coin a look. The steps to mining duino coin are fairly simple. Download their repo which you can do right here. Then install arduino which I will have a article on my site for and setup your arduino with the program. Once your arduino has the mining program installed launch the avr miner program and watch yourself mine duino coin on a small board that uses pretty much no electricity. And if you want to take this even further you can setup a standalone mining rig which can be found in their getting started page.
Mining on a raspberry pi? The setup is simple. Use the following command and it will install everything for you.
cd
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Grantrocks/duino-coin/master/Tools/duco-install-rpi.sh
sudo chmod a+x duco-install-rpi.sh
Let me know how this script worked for you because I am trying to add it to the official duino coin repository for everyone to use too.
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Top comments (6)
I'd suggest that you should remove the autopopup with advertising (multiple windows opening off-screen) from your site.
yeah i know. IM just seeing different ways to monetize. Right now i just use the gather thing.
Most Arduino boards are standalone microcontrollers without network connectivity, so I don’t understand how this could contribute back to the chain?
Well if you had an esp module that you could use that as a host and the arduino to mine. But the program that you flash to the arduino communicates with the python program that you run from your computer making the computer act as a communicator with the blockchain.
OK, but that reduces the low power/cost element of this idea. I’ll have to do some research into how this works, I think (I have a lot of ESP boards right now, as I’m working on a blog series on MicroPython!)
Nice. If you have a raspberry pi could you install the program using my script. Im trying to add it to the main official repo so everyone can easily install it on your pi. Also if you gonna mine with esp i would mine at 160mhz if you can.