Mining with Windows Azure Cloud Service - 20 cores free for 100 hours

jtraverso

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Today I registered with http://www.softlayer.com/ they are offering
USD$500 to try the service using the code "500BUILD", for that money you can put to work 12-16 cores for a month Wink

depending on your configuration.

I selected an linux-ubuntu machine and installed CPUMINER.

The following is an example of the steps needed to mine MAGI (XGM), you can mine others coins just by changing the .git for the right one for your coin:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install git screen automake build-essential libboost-all-dev libdb5.1-dev libdb5.1++-dev libminiupnpc-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libgmp-dev

git clone https://github.com/wolf9466/wolf-m7m-cpuminer.git

cd wolf-m7magi-cpuminer-v2
./autogen.sh
CFLAGS="-O3" ./configure
make
sudo cp minerd /usr/local/bin

then you can put a background process by calling:
nohup minerd -a m7mhash -s 4 -o stratum+tcp://mining.m-hash.com:3334 -u yourusername.yourworker -p yourpassword &

BTC: 1LfaTRQL15ZN5KgPHJqE62H4A7bHobKY4m
DOGE: DJwHJkE8MfM7nJ71h2abL3T9HabJYbbJpA
XGM: 9SHmHBGtmfwv8bJruSZ8VWMY37MUh24V58

CryptKeeper

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Quote from: 5w00p on November 24, 2014, 03:06:50 PM

Quote from: CryptKeeper on November 24, 2014, 02:26:11 AM

Have anyone tried slicify.com?

Seems to be the cheapest around, but everytime I try to sign up, it fails.

Yeah I just tried and it also failed.

Maybe Beta is optimistic. Seems they are in the Alpha stage.

Thank you, now I don't feel so alone anymore! Grin

5w00p

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Quote from: CryptKeeper on November 24, 2014, 02:26:11 AM

Have anyone tried slicify.com?

Seems to be the cheapest around, but everytime I try to sign up, it fails.

Yeah I just tried and it also failed.

Maybe Beta is optimistic. Seems they are in the Alpha stage.

CryptKeeper

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Have anyone tried slicify.com?

Seems to be the cheapest around, but everytime I try to sign up, it fails.

5w00p

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Quote from: ashik4u on November 24, 2014, 01:52:24 AM

How much Bitcoin can be earned in 100 hours?

Alternative coins that are not mineable by ASICs are mined by people with computers, not bitcoin.

ashik4u

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How much Bitcoin can be earned in 100 hours?

larue05

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another update.

I got back on my first 2 azure accounts and they are back up and activated. All my VMs still there and cpuminer still installed on them all. have 40cores all mining again now. So I have no clue what was happening last night with them being rejected.

Account 3 is still rejecting the CC used from the first 2 however.

larue05

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Quote from: maardein on January 15, 2014, 10:32:50 AM

Quote from: soulmann on January 07, 2014, 03:52:21 PM

Quote from: maardein on January 07, 2014, 03:19:18 PM

I tried it, but you can't sign up more than two times with the same creditcard. Ip didn't matter (tried through tor/proxy as well).

Oh, and you need to verify your account with a text message, and they will call you to ask whether you need assistance Grin

And what message do you see with the third time?

Got something like "This payment method is not available at the moment".

That's the same message I got while trying to setup a 3rd account. And shortly after that the first 2 accounts free trials were canceled and they said, "You have already used your free trial or are ineligible"

maardein

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Quote from: soulmann on January 07, 2014, 03:52:21 PM

Quote from: maardein on January 07, 2014, 03:19:18 PM

I tried it, but you can't sign up more than two times with the same creditcard. Ip didn't matter (tried through tor/proxy as well).

Oh, and you need to verify your account with a text message, and they will call you to ask whether you need assistance Grin

And what message do you see with the third time?

Got something like "This payment method is not available at the moment".

U1TRA_L0RD

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CAUTION: Angry Man with Attitude.

Im doing the same, but currently mining Protoshares PTS.

I have to VM's which I access via RDP

I will be making another free trial account soon on another site.

larue05

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FYI,
I finally got around to trying this out. I setup my first 20cores and let em run for about 5 hours. I then came back and setup my second account and the next 20 cores. Using the same CC for both accounts. I got them all online and running. 30min Later I created a 3rd account and got to the payment screen and entered in the CC info. This time it said it was unable to process the card.

Which didn't surprise me as someone else here mentioned they could only get 2 accounts running.

Well low and behold this flagged the card and the first 2 accounts related to it. In no less than 3minutes the first 2 accounts were completely wiped out and the $200 free trials were instantly revoked. All the VMs were removed and the first two accounts both now say that "your free trial has already been used"

Kinda wondering if I'm IP blocked as well. Tomorrow I'm going to try brand new email accounts with a brand new CC card.

For what it's worth the 8core 7GB VMs runs just the same as the 8core 64GB VMs as far as k/hash is concerned. The 8core 7GB VM according to their pricing calculator would get you hashing for 8 days straight before exhausting the $200 trial ammount.

soulmann

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Quote from: maardein on January 07, 2014, 03:19:18 PM

I tried it, but you can't sign up more than two times with the same creditcard. Ip didn't matter (tried through tor/proxy as well).

Oh, and you need to verify your account with a text message, and they will call you to ask whether you need assistance Grin

And what message do you see with the third time?

maardein

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I tried it, but you can't sign up more than two times with the same creditcard. Ip didn't matter (tried through tor/proxy as well).

Oh, and you need to verify your account with a text message, and they will call you to ask whether you need assistance Grin

soulmann

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Quote from: r0bd0b on January 02, 2014, 09:57:21 PM

Your mileage may vary, but I ran two separate Azure trial accounts like this, and a friend ran eight (160 cores!). Neither of us ran into any problems from Microsoft, even though we each used a single credit card for all our trials.

And your friend?

varunsin

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dont forget to try gogrid.com and rackspace.com

cozk

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all this for only 80kh/s for 100 hours ??

wow.....

sonicsmith

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I mined Primecoin with this free trial.

$260 free I think. I used it up in 3 days, and make about 1 XPM!

jdndndndx

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What were you mining? Just curious.

r0bd0b

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Yeah, a different email for each account. Again, YMMV and they may wise up to this and stop allowing multiple accounts with the same card, but I was mining Quark with this method a couple weeks ago without any issues.

larue05

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Quote from: r0bd0b on January 02, 2014, 09:57:21 PM

Your mileage may vary, but I ran two separate Azure trial accounts like this, and a friend ran eight (160 cores!). Neither of us ran into any problems from Microsoft, even though we each used a single credit card for all our trials.

Wow, that's an idea I hadn't considered. I have that $h1tty paypal CC, I think I'll attempt it with that one.

Im guessing you're gonna need 8+ new emails to register right?

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