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Setting Up Chia Farming with a Raspberry Pi

Crypto Basics intermediate 5 min read $0.01 Updated 2026-07-31

How to run a Chia farmer on a Raspberry Pi 4: why Chia's Proof of Space and Time lets a low-power Pi farm (while plotting stays on a stronger machine), installing the software, creating a wallet, optimizing the Pi, pointing the farmer at plot directories, and monitoring with 'chia farm summary'.

Chia is farmed with storage space, not GPU power — which makes a Raspberry Pi 4 a capable full-time farmer. This guide covers what you need, why plotting happens on a separate machine, and the steps to get a Pi farming plots and checking status.

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