As part of our drive to introduce Ethereum to the farthest corners of the world, not to mention demonstrating the potential of embedded blockchain technology (even without light nodes), I am pleased to announce the launch of our “eπ” Ethereum-program on Raspberry. Pi.
As part of our program, we are offering a complete kit to put a full Ethereum node on the Internet for communities around the world. The kit includes a Raspberry Pi (version 2), a power connector, and an SD card preloaded with all the software needed to run an Ethereum Frontier node. The only thing that the applicant must supply is energy and internet. Before you ask, no, they won’t be good miners (aside from anything else, they don’t have enough GPU RAM). However, they will act as file nodes, verify and broadcast blocks and transactions, and generally add to the party atmosphere.
We have quite a few of these to give away so please use our online form. Everyone is welcome to apply, but we are especially looking for schools, universities, and communities at the far reaches of the world that are often forgotten.
If you can’t get into the program, but feel like setting up a low-cost node anyway (these devices are around $50 each), then Christoph has provided a howto get you on your way.
In other news, Olympic is buzzing and there is still plenty of Ether to be earned by people willing to mine or code some scripts to hammer the network with transactions. I’ve set up an Ether Faucet at Olympic (named that in the Ethereum naming registry), so go ahead and grab some free Ether!
