Hopefully yes. For a vault (farming), the communications is likely to be the limit not CPU. A client (user) will have more CPU load because it is doing encryption and decryption.
You should be able to test this soon, maybe this week or next - watch for the weekly “Dev Update” post which usually goes up late on Tuesday’s. Can’t guarantee Pi (ARM) support will be in there, but fingers crossed.
There won’t be a Safecoin wallet until the network leaves testing, but in the meantime MaidSafecoin (a proxy token) can be bought on exchanges such as Poloniex and stored in the Omniwallet (at any bitcoin address for which you hold the private key), pending transfer to SAFEnetwork and conversion to Safecoin.
I heard some Devs talk about providing chunks as being a race. The first Vault that responds get’s to deliver the chunk. I don’t know if that’s still the case. But it would make the network faster. External HDD’s are a bit tricky than??
The $5 Raspberry Pi Zero it’s new, more powerful than the first Pi, and tiny!
CPU: Broadcom BCM2835, which can run at up to 1GHz.
RAM: 512MB
Power: 5V, supplied via micro USB connector, drawing 160mA (even when connected to an HD display).
Dimensions: 65mm x 30mm x 5mm
Video & Audio: 1080P HD video output. Audio output via mini-HDMI connector.
Storage: MicroSD card.
Operating System: Linux, installed via NOOBS.
Note: to farm you need a network connection so you would have to buy a USB to Ethernet or Wi-Fi adapter and connect it to the micro USB data port.
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The Pi processor is ARM11 microarchitecture and includes ARMv6 processor core (I’m just copying Wikipedia here ). This seems to be the same for the Pi Zero, so is this something you will be able to target @Ross?
Just went down to try and buy one with the magazine but couldn’t get a hold of one, hopefully pick one up over the weekend - looks very interesting though.
Its similar to - same processor but a bit faster - the Pi 1 (A, A+, B, B+) and same 512MB RAM as Pi 1 (B, B+) so it if works on any of those I’m pretty sure the Pi Zero would be fine. Can you target Pi 1?
These are all ARMv6 rather than ARMv7 (Pi 2 / Odroid). All run Raspbian Linux so again, if ok on one, probably all good for the Pi Zero.
Comparable, if not better, and still available for February 2016 delivery is the $9 C.H.I.P. computer from Next Thing. Already mentioned on the forum a while ago (link below), but I add it here as I can’t find it in this thread.
The $9 C.H.I.P. computer uses a 1GHz Allwinner R8 Cortex CPU (ARMv7) has 512MB / 4GB pre-installed Debian, on board Wi-Fi & Bluetooth plus various add on “shields”. You can even get a version that has built in display and qwerty keyboard (Sinclair ZX80 style) but shipping a few months later.
You wait ages and then… (via @dallyshalla) we have the Pine 64 for $19 1.2GHz 64bit quad core Cortex-A53 (ARMv8) 1GB RAM, Ethernet, Micro SD (to 256GB) 2x USB, HDMI etc
In case anyone was interested in the pre-sale of CHIP 9$ computers for 8$ each, it is starting in 10 minutes
7am EST now says 2 hours time. Something odd there
EDIT: Now working, shipping is a bit strange, if you add too many of some items it says it does not ship to your country. I had to do mine in two orders to get the 5 CHIPs and 2 other parts. Shipping cost was reasonable, even when it was in two orders.
EDIT: They are closing pre-orders at the end of the day it seems [quote]Cyber Monday means C.H.I.P. pre-orders are open! Until 12 am PST,[/quote]
Here’s the pine64 kickstarter link. Fully funded, lots of options (some already gone) deliveries start in Feb 2016 (larger memory all gone until March):
Thanks and I appreciate the heads-up. No one is more disgusted by the ever-expanding surveillance state than me. I plan to use this device only as a dedicated farming rig. There will be nothing there for the man to steal. On a related note, a month ago I purchased a Think Penguin laptop for personal use. It came preloaded with Trisquel (I rejected the ubuntu option). This OS is 100% freeware and contains no h/w that can facilitate spying. Visit the Free Sofware Foundation at fsf.org for a listing of all free s/w.
). This seems to be the same for the Pi Zero, so is this something you will be able to target 
And thabks to