I will looking at the bill to see if it really cost lest than 150$
If possible please add some options to the script : wokername and email to notify.
Thank you for the script.
Topic: Azure Free Credits for Mining Monero or CN-Heavy:Super Easy and Super Profitable - page 11. (Read 24046 times)
May 14, 2018, 12:43:34 PM
After delete all old ResoureGroups and do it again, thing done well now !
I will looking at the bill to see if it really cost lest than 150$
If possible please add some options to the script : wokername and email to notify.
Thank you for the script.
I will looking at the bill to see if it really cost lest than 150$
If possible please add some options to the script : wokername and email to notify.
Thank you for the script.
May 14, 2018, 12:23:21 PM
After try to SSH to one node and run "top" I could see the miner running, but nothing on pool side.
If you connect to the VM through ssh, you can use the command Code:
nano /mnt/batch/tasks/startup/stdout.txt
to have a look at the file /mnt/batch/tasks/startup/stdout.txt (you'll have to scroll down quite a bit to get to the interesting part). If the miner is actually doing something, then you should see the periodic hashrate-report. Otherwise there should be some error-message visible there.Please post here again if that does not fix the problem.
And the low price is really true! With the batch-service 20 low-priority cores will cost you just a little less than 150$!
May 14, 2018, 12:06:51 PM
My keep IDLE status all the time.
I guess that you mean to say that in the azure-portal you can see that all nodes are in the state "IDLE". This is normal. The idea of the batch-service is that the users have tasks that get passed on to the nodes. "IDLE" means that the nodes have booted up and are ready to accept such a task. However, we are using the batch-service a little different. For mining, all we have is the startup-task, which will do the actual mining and will run indefinitely.So instead of checking the node-state you should check your pool's dashboard. If you can see in the dashboard that your miners are active and submitting shares then everything is OK.
After try to SSH to one node and run "top" I could see the miner running, but nothing on pool side.
Need to investigate more tmr.
I have many of Azure account which running NH with NV6 VM now, how could 10 nodes with 20 cores total just use 150$ for a month ? Very interesting ...
May 14, 2018, 09:54:32 AM
My keep IDLE status all the time.
I guess that you mean to say that in the azure-portal you can see that all nodes are in the state "IDLE". This is normal. The idea of the batch-service is that the users have tasks that get passed on to the nodes. "IDLE" means that the nodes have booted up and are ready to accept such a task. However, we are using the batch-service a little different. For mining, all we have is the startup-task, which will do the actual mining and will run indefinitely.So instead of checking the node-state you should check your pool's dashboard. If you can see in the dashboard that your miners are active and submitting shares then everything is OK.
May 14, 2018, 09:41:23 AM
My keep IDLE status all the time.
Follow all the step.
Not sure anything wrong ...
Follow all the step.
Not sure anything wrong ...
May 14, 2018, 02:30:49 AM
I bet running xmr-stak throws up a huge red flag.
Yeah, if they really wanted they could have some spyware running in each VM to detect blacklisted processes. However, as a customer i would find this a bit invasive (even if i don't intend to run any of the blacklisted programs). So i am not really convinced that their detection works like that. Azure could also do some checks along the lines of "IF the cpu-load is 100% AND there are tcp-connections to known mining-pools THEN assume that the VM is used for mining". For this kind of detection no internal access to the VM would be necessary (and changing the miner-binary would not help at all). Do you have experience with changing the binary in such a case? Did it actually help?
May 14, 2018, 01:57:09 AM
I can only mine for several days and got my subscription disabled, both on my free trial account and pay as you go
Hi VaynardW,
that's strange. I've been running my VMs without break for several months now, and so far there was no problem. I have also signed up for a free trial account (independent from the azure-account linked to my MSDN-subscription) and i could use up the 200$ free credits without any problem.
You write you "got your subscription disabled". Are you talking about a MSDN-subscription or about the azure-account? And what do you mean by "disabled"? Is your account gone completely (i.e. you can't login anymore) or did MS just stop all running VMs?
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May 13, 2018, 11:15:44 PM
I can only mine for several days and got my subscription disabled, both on my free trial account and pay as you go
salt and recompile XMR-stak. Change it enough, they won't have a detection vector.I bet running xmr-stak throws up a huge red flag.
May 13, 2018, 09:32:20 PM
I can only mine for several days and got my subscription disabled, both on my free trial account and pay as you go
May 12, 2018, 08:59:51 AM
Hi everybody,
github tells me that 4 people have forked my github repository with the mining scripts... wow, i've never felt so popular
But seriously people: if you feel you really need to set the donation-level to 0%, at least have the decency to make your one-off donation to the authors of xmr-stak. Their donation-wallet is at the bottom of their github-page: https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak
github tells me that 4 people have forked my github repository with the mining scripts... wow, i've never felt so popular
But seriously people: if you feel you really need to set the donation-level to 0%, at least have the decency to make your one-off donation to the authors of xmr-stak. Their donation-wallet is at the bottom of their github-page: https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak
May 10, 2018, 06:30:43 AM
One person asked me about using nicehash by email, so i thought i'll share the information here.
The good news is that mining to a nicehash-pool is as easy as pasting your nicehash-wallet and the nicehash-server cryptonightv7.usa.nicehash.com:3363 into the advanced script-generator at https://azurecloudminingscript.github.io/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html and then following the rest of the guide as normal. Nicehash will pay you in bitcoin, which might be an advantage if that's the cryptocurrency you're interested in. (Technical information: the script-generator will detect if you enter a nicehash-server and it will then automatically set the nicehash-flag in XMR-Stak's configuration).
The bad news is the high difficulty of the nicehash-servers. Unless you configure a node-size of 8 or even 16 cores, you won't be able to consistently submit a new share before nicehash bans you for being inactive. Unfortunately, using bigger nodes will net you a much smaller hashrate (compared to setting up a bigger number of small nodes. Running a single 16-core-VM has almost the same price as running 16 VMs with one core each). So in the end i think it is more profitable to just mine Monero and then exchange the mined coins to bitcoin on cryptopia.
The good news is that mining to a nicehash-pool is as easy as pasting your nicehash-wallet and the nicehash-server cryptonightv7.usa.nicehash.com:3363 into the advanced script-generator at https://azurecloudminingscript.github.io/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html and then following the rest of the guide as normal. Nicehash will pay you in bitcoin, which might be an advantage if that's the cryptocurrency you're interested in. (Technical information: the script-generator will detect if you enter a nicehash-server and it will then automatically set the nicehash-flag in XMR-Stak's configuration).
The bad news is the high difficulty of the nicehash-servers. Unless you configure a node-size of 8 or even 16 cores, you won't be able to consistently submit a new share before nicehash bans you for being inactive. Unfortunately, using bigger nodes will net you a much smaller hashrate (compared to setting up a bigger number of small nodes. Running a single 16-core-VM has almost the same price as running 16 VMs with one core each). So in the end i think it is more profitable to just mine Monero and then exchange the mined coins to bitcoin on cryptopia.
May 09, 2018, 10:46:02 AM
Update: I have updated the script and the script-generator to support Sumokoin (SUMO) as well. The additional option is available on the website intended for advanced users:
https://azurecloudminingscript.github.io/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html
(My other site https://azurecloudminingscript.github.io/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html has the quickstart-instructions, but has set Monero as default-currency.)
Other currencies based on Cryptonight-V7 or Cryptonight-Heavy should also work. jdoi made a nice overview:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/cryptonight-cryptonote-on-gpus-and-asics-and-profitability-3129218. I have personally only tested Sumokoin, though. I'm getting around 55H/s per Core for Cryptonight-Heavy. This would result in 1100 H/s if one would use the free credits from an MSDN-Enterprise-subscription to mine Sumokoin.
I did not bother making an option for the original cryptonight-algo because the profitability is a joke since the asics are available.
If you have any problems getting it to work feel free to PM me or write a reply in this thread.
https://azurecloudminingscript.github.io/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html
(My other site https://azurecloudminingscript.github.io/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html has the quickstart-instructions, but has set Monero as default-currency.)
Other currencies based on Cryptonight-V7 or Cryptonight-Heavy should also work. jdoi made a nice overview:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/cryptonight-cryptonote-on-gpus-and-asics-and-profitability-3129218. I have personally only tested Sumokoin, though. I'm getting around 55H/s per Core for Cryptonight-Heavy. This would result in 1100 H/s if one would use the free credits from an MSDN-Enterprise-subscription to mine Sumokoin.
I did not bother making an option for the original cryptonight-algo because the profitability is a joke since the asics are available.
If you have any problems getting it to work feel free to PM me or write a reply in this thread.
Great update thanks!
May 09, 2018, 10:12:32 AM
Update: I have updated the script and the script-generator to support Sumokoin (SUMO) as well. The additional option is available on the website intended for advanced users:
https://azurecloudminingscript.github.io/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html
(My other site https://azurecloudminingscript.github.io/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html has the quickstart-instructions, but has set Monero as default-currency.)
Other currencies based on Cryptonight-V7 or Cryptonight-Heavy should also work. jdoi made a nice overview:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/cryptonight-cryptonote-on-gpus-and-asics-and-profitability-3129218. I have personally only tested Sumokoin, though. I'm getting around 55H/s per Core for Cryptonight-Heavy. This would result in 1100 H/s if one would use the free credits from an MSDN-Enterprise-subscription to mine Sumokoin.
I did not bother making an option for the original cryptonight-algo because the profitability is a joke since the asics are available.
If you have any problems getting it to work feel free to PM me or write a reply in this thread.
https://azurecloudminingscript.github.io/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html
(My other site https://azurecloudminingscript.github.io/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html has the quickstart-instructions, but has set Monero as default-currency.)
Other currencies based on Cryptonight-V7 or Cryptonight-Heavy should also work. jdoi made a nice overview:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/cryptonight-cryptonote-on-gpus-and-asics-and-profitability-3129218. I have personally only tested Sumokoin, though. I'm getting around 55H/s per Core for Cryptonight-Heavy. This would result in 1100 H/s if one would use the free credits from an MSDN-Enterprise-subscription to mine Sumokoin.
I did not bother making an option for the original cryptonight-algo because the profitability is a joke since the asics are available.
If you have any problems getting it to work feel free to PM me or write a reply in this thread.
May 06, 2018, 10:09:19 AM
Just a hint if one of you is having trouble setting up the VMs in the azure-portal: apparently the azure-portal does not like firefox and will give strange errors when setting up the pools. I recommend using chrome for logging in to the azure-portal.
May 04, 2018, 03:21:39 PM
I think it would be great if you add support for other Cryptonight coins.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll make a post here when i add the feature. May 04, 2018, 12:10:45 PM
i used up my azure trial and do not have the free monthly credits... can this be done on aws or any other free cloud services?
I have seen that many people are selling MSDN-accounts with free credits very cheap (50$ or even less) right here in this forum (see Bitcoin Forum > Economy > Marketplace > Goods > Digital goods. Search for "MSDN invite"). If it works out then you'll earn back the 50$ after just one month (i have no experience with azure-accounts acquired this way - there is always a chance that you get scammed or that azure will shut you down).
Otherwise the script should work on any Ubuntu 16.04-Server (later versions will probably work as well). If there's no option to pass a startup-script to the VM while you are creating it you would need to connect to the server through ssh and start the script this way (of course that's a bit cumbersome if you want to run multiple servers).
However, from what i have heard AWS and other providers are very quick to shut down the servers once they detect that they are used for mining.
May 04, 2018, 11:55:33 AM
i used up my azure trial and do not have the free monthly credits... can this be done on aws or any other free cloud services?
May 04, 2018, 09:27:31 AM
I think it would be great if you add support for other Cryptonight coins.
May 04, 2018, 02:39:27 AM
Hi Everybody,
I'm thinking of adding support for Sumokoin to my script-generator (https://azurecloudminingscript.github.io/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html).
I'm interested in Sumokoin because it has good privacy features like Monero, but due to the current low price the chances of a huge speculative gain seem to be much higher than with Monero (this is my personal opinion and not a investment advice).
What do you think? Is anybody here interested in mining Sumokoin with my scripts?
I'm thinking of adding support for Sumokoin to my script-generator (https://azurecloudminingscript.github.io/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html).
I'm interested in Sumokoin because it has good privacy features like Monero, but due to the current low price the chances of a huge speculative gain seem to be much higher than with Monero (this is my personal opinion and not a investment advice).
What do you think? Is anybody here interested in mining Sumokoin with my scripts?
May 01, 2018, 08:55:55 AM
1 Hour Avg. Hash Rate = 1.66 KH/s
Thanks for taking the time to try it out. I'm happy to hear that it's working for you. Jump to: