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RE: Compile SolarCoin-Qt 2.1.8. on Raspberry Pi or other SBC
@scalextrix - can you give us an overview of what you're doing here for the non-blockchain types? It looks spectacular - but I'm not sure what it is!
So its a SolarCoin community aim for some time was to make SolarCoin wallets run on ultra-low energy (both vested and in operation) devices like Single Board Computers commonly called Raspberry PIs. The point is that we want the SolarCoin blockchain to operate with minimal energy resources, to maximise the benefit of the solar energy production that SolarCoin wants to incentivise.
Until now we only had a command-line version of a SolarCoin wallet working on a Raspberry Pi, its very difficult for a non-technical person to use.
The above are instructions to install a graphical version of the SolarCoin wallet on a Raspberry Pi (just like you would use on any PC/Mac) opening up the possibility of non-technical users operating SolarCoin on low energy devices. Becasue an SBC can be left operating 24/7/365 at almost no energy cost, this also can strengthen the peer2peer network.
We could even start selling fully operational SolarCoin boxes, with the potential for blockchain energy logging and other features built into a £30 package.
We hope the next evolution will be to get this working on the even smaller Raspberry PI Zero, that is only £5 and uses even less energy, but that is a technical stretch right now and may not be possible.