Just my chip in on the earnings during the database downtime.
I actually thought i wouldn't get anything. Was mining on an ec2 voucher (*i've another ($100) which i'd take offers on (one per account)(apologies for the shameless plug)*) and it ran out mid-down time. Of course when slush said he'd pay out based on performance as soon as things are up... and i knew i wouldnt be mining...
So I was extremely happy to log in and see I had been credited. I want to thank slush for his dedication and getting things back up so fast!
On a side note theres a newbie who's about 10% under though from my maths. Might be worth looking into
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/slush-pool-outage-187689Was it profitable? What kinds of spec did the instance have?
Nowhere Near! I made 0.01587451 BTC from it mining at least 30 hours ($63). But it was more of an experiment/learning process, I had no other use for the voucher.
I would only buy the other one from me if you have use for AWS services other than mining. Its Valid on -
Amazon Route 53, VPC, EC2, Elastic MapReduce, SES, CloudSearch, ElastiCache, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, SQS, AWS Data Transfer, SNS, Simple EDI, DynamoDB, CloudFront, RDS, Simple Notification Service, S3, and SimpleDB
And I think it needs to all be used by the first of September. Open to any offers from 0.35BTC up. To a reputable member here you get the code, then pay when you know it worked. If not, payment upfront.
The spec was -
Cluster GPU Quadruple Extra Large 22 GiB memory, 33.5 EC2 Compute Units, 2 x NVIDIA Tesla “Fermi” M2050 GPUs, 1690 GB of local instance storage, 64-bit platform, 10 Gigabit Ethernet
Running Poclbm on both GPU's and cpuminer.
*Edit* For those that don't know amazon also have a free tier. Its pretty pathetic but to leave it going a year would probably be worth the time setting it up.
