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Unfortunately, it hasn't been possible to mine Bitcoins on a regular computer (even a powerful one) for many years. If your laptop joined a mining pool in 2014, you would have earned around $0.20 USD per week, and you would spend much more than that on electricity. It's some tiny fraction of a cent now.

Bitcoin is usually mined through mid-to-high end graphics cards. People running a pool of 6-7 of these cards per machine are seeing diminishing returns, so using a Pi wouldn't cover the electricity needed to keep it running.

Bitcoin is mined using ASICs, and not GPUs.

But, it’s true that mining using a raspberry pi would not be very useful.

Beyond the novelty of doing it? No, completely not worth it.