Is it possible to run an Ethereum 2.0 validator on a Raspberry Pi?
6 min readDec 5, 2020
UPDATE 28 August 2022: Get your supplemental guide for how to prepare your Raspberry Pi validator for The Merge right here.
Update 26 March 2024: You can still run GETH on a Pi 4 without issue. To run Lighthouse post version 5.0, you’ll need a Pi 5. To answer a FAQ, the sole performance issue with my Pi 4 setup from Genesis to upgrading to a Pi 5 yesterday was when the rig was selected for sync committee. 64% effectiveness. But that’s a once-in-a-blue-moon occurrence, and not enough to budge me from my minimalist…