In the previous article we saw how to use the BPow Client on Raspberry Pi4, but we can also use https://bananominer.com/ to earn extra $BAN.

What is Banano Miner?

With Banano Miner, instead of running arbitrary calculations to "mine" a cryptocurrency, your computer runs protein fold simulations through Folding@Home to help scientists around the world fight diseases such as Alzheimers, Cancer, Parkinson's. As a result of your contribution, you get rewarded in Banano.

What is Banano?

BANANO is an instant, feeless, rich in potassium cryptocurrency. It has had an ongoing free and fair distribution since April 1st, 2018.

Running Folding@Home client on RaspberryPi4

Requirements

- Raspberry Pi4
- Ubuntu 20.4
- Banano Address (Most common are https://kalium.banano.cc/ or https://vault.banano.cc/) 

Download & Install F@H

You can find the latest versions for Ubuntu https://download.foldingathome.org/releases/public/release/fahclient/debian-stable-arm64/

We'll use the latest.deb

Create a folder in your home: ~/FoldingBananos/
mkdir ~/FoldingBananos/
cd ~/FoldingBananos/

Download latest.deb

wget https://download.foldingathome.org/releases/public/release/fahclient/debian-stable-arm64/v7.6/latest.deb

Install F@H

sudo dpkg -i --force-depends latest.deb


Configure

UserID: get from https://bananominer.com/ (f.e. o2gtmta8gvw4)

TeamID: get from https://bananominer.com/ (f.e. 234980)

Passkey: (you can request it here)

The configurations will be saved here: /etc/fahclient/config.xml 

<config>
    <!-- Folding Slot Configuration -->
    <cause v='CANCER'/>
    <gpu v='false'/>

    <!-- Slot Control -->
    <power v='FULL'/>

    <!-- User Information -->
    <team v='234980'/>
    <user v='o2gtmta8gvw4'/>

    <!-- Folding Slots -->
    <slot id='0' type='CPU'/>

</config>


Service - Start/Stop/Status

sudo /etc/init.d/FAHClient stop
sudo /etc/init.d/FAHClient status
sudo /etc/init.d/FAHClient start

Send Commands to FAHClient

FAHClient --configure

FAHClient --send-command "simulation-info 0"

FAHClient --send-command ppd

FAHClient --send-command pause

FAHClient --send-command unpause

Access WebView from other computers

Add to the configuration the IP addresses you want to reach the server from:

    <!-- HTTP Server -->

    <allow v='192.168.0.1/24'/>
    <web-allow v='192.168.0.1/24'/>

After that you should be allowed to reach the WebView

http://raspi-address:7396/

That's it!

Your webview should look something like this:

You can see how your results via API calls:

https://bananominer.com/user_name/o2gtmta8gvw4 

https://stats.foldingathome.org/api/donor/o2gtmta8gvw4 

https://stats.foldingathome.org/donor/o2gtmta8gvw4 

The current formula to get $BAN from folding:

2.2 * ( PPD / 2) ^ 0.44

My Banano Address: ban_3b3bqj9m89a5qoxkmjbmom3rhp171irr39tcbd1opwn7rm5g5jk3e5n9sd44 , feel free to add me to your contact list :)