Raspberry Pi Mining

Hey, I'm running my node on a Raspberry Pi. Just wondering, can I mine solo with it? I get that it's not really profitable, but I just wanna give it a shot to see how everything works.

Is that a fully synced node? I don't know if you can still directly mine solo in your node, but usually the solution is to host a pool because miner units prefer to use stratum connection to mine. Check this self-hosted solo mining pool, free and open-source

I used [Guide] Solo mine testnet bitcoins with bfgminer, Bitcoin Core, and a CPU/GPU few years ago with success. But i don't know whether you can compile and run bfgminer on raspberry pi (which use ARM based CPU). If you use Bitcoin Core CLI, there's argument to mine Bitcoin[1]. But last time i tried it (few years ago), it only works on regtest node. [1] https://developer.bitcoin.org/reference/rpc/generate.html

Can you explain it bit more??

There are two ways to interpret your question. "Is it possible to use the Pi as a miner? Use it to mine bitcoin? Just to try and see how solo mining using a Raspberry Pi is?" - The answer is yes, but the Pi has a very weak CPU and it might damage it if you leave it using it all for a lot of time. However, you can install mining software such as cpuminer-opt and use that to mine to solo.ckpool.org."Is it possible to use the Pi as a mining pool, wherein I'll point some hashrate, and test to see how the full node and the mining pool software combine?" - The answer is yes, but please don't try to solo-mine using real hashrate to your Raspberry Pi pool, because Bitcoin Core's getblocktemplate runs slowly on junk hardware, and you need to call it as quickly as possible. Consider either using better hardware, or point the hashrate to solo.ckpool.org.

What do you need to know exactly? How to setup the software or what you need to be able to run a Pi for a reasonable amount of time to mine? The latter really does depend on your environment. However, there's plenty of tutorials online including Youtube which would likely be a better way of explaining this process. Especially, if you're new. However, if you have any trouble specifically when trying to set it up ask here and we can probably figure it out. However, I will say; I know you know its not profitable, but its also probably more expensive to get it stable than just outright buying a small at home miner like a bitaxe or something like that. Since the Pi isn't designed for this in mind, whereas those bitaxe's or mini avalons are. You'd probably spend more on upgrading the Pi with fans etc.