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Topic: [No Coding!] Guide To Mining Protoshare With Windows Azure: Make $50 For Free! (Read 10827 times)

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Sad Sad I'm afraid microsoft azure doesn't cover my country. (Greece)

Yes it does, I'm already running a VM for the last few days.
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 Sad Sad I'm afraid microsoft azure doesn't cover my country. (Greece)
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I have 0.6 PTS and it's not even through half of the trial credit. PTS price has increased 4x since the start of this thread. If I reach the minimum withdrawl level of 1.0 PTS on ypool then I'll consider this a success.  Cheesy

Have been running the Ubuntu VMs with the script mentioned in the last post. Run it as follows to ensure continuous operation.

Code:
nohup ./mine.sh &

You can close your SSH terminal and the VMs will work their magic in the background.

I don't know if I did something wrong but I never reachedthe withdraw limit with the trial...
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I have 0.6 PTS and it's not even through half of the trial credit. PTS price has increased 4x since the start of this thread. If I reach the minimum withdrawl level of 1.0 PTS on ypool then I'll consider this a success.  Cheesy

Have been running the Ubuntu VMs with the script mentioned in the last post. Run it as follows to ensure continuous operation.

Code:
nohup ./mine.sh &

You can close your SSH terminal and the VMs will work their magic in the background.
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Edit: Set my thread to 8 and it got back to 100++ c/min.

Mine is settling around 105 coll/min with Ubuntu 12.04 after warmup period. It doesn't mean much though because none of my shares are being accepted.  Undecided

Every so often it says 'connection to server lost - reconnect in 45 seconds'. Then, it connects again and the shares are actually accepted for a while. Eventually, the shares stop getting accepted and the whole process repeats. Anyone else seeing similar behavior?

I'm going to let it run overnight and see how it goes.

I gave up on it.

Windows machines and Linux machines both drop the connection to ypool.  I couldn't seem to keep it connected or shares being accepted.
Yes they do. Use a script like this:
Code:
while true; do
./jhprotominer -o ypool.net:8081 -u user.worker -p x -t 8 &
sleep 380
killall jhprotominer
sleep 3
done
Save it as mine.sh and run
Code:
chmod +x mine.sh
./mine.sh &
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One correction. Make 50% more coins.

If you want to make 50% more coins use Ubuntu machines instead of Windows machines. Azure Windows machines are much more expensive for the same hardware. This is what I do myself.

If you found this helpful you can send part of your donations to PkJZUGQYxASg8h7hQ8gGAqs4Q4avTyg7q2



MS Azure is own by MS and offer Windows Server free. No performance difference between Linux or Windows, just the licensing cost.
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I can't seem to connect to http://ptsweb.beeeeer.org/, am I doing it right? The username goes in place of '____'

./ptsminer http://ptsweb.beeeeer.org/user/____ 8


I let it run on ypool overnight and had 91 / 239 shares accepted (only 38%).
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It doesn't mean much though because none of my shares are being accepted.  Undecided
I gave up on it.
Windows machines and Linux machines both drop the connection to ypool.  I couldn't seem to keep it connected or shares being accepted.

Maybe you guys should try beer pool instead? Link here: http://ptsweb.beeeeer.org/
I used Ypool for awhile and get disconnected automatically. That's why I switched to beer pool and so far it's working great.
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Edit: Set my thread to 8 and it got back to 100++ c/min.

Mine is settling around 105 coll/min with Ubuntu 12.04 after warmup period. It doesn't mean much though because none of my shares are being accepted.  Undecided

Every so often it says 'connection to server lost - reconnect in 45 seconds'. Then, it connects again and the shares are actually accepted for a while. Eventually, the shares stop getting accepted and the whole process repeats. Anyone else seeing similar behavior?

I'm going to let it run overnight and see how it goes.

I gave up on it.

Windows machines and Linux machines both drop the connection to ypool.  I couldn't seem to keep it connected or shares being accepted.
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Activity: 362
Merit: 250
Edit: Set my thread to 8 and it got back to 100++ c/min.

Mine is settling around 105 coll/min with Ubuntu 12.04 after warmup period. It doesn't mean much though because none of my shares are being accepted.  Undecided

Every so often it says 'connection to server lost - reconnect in 45 seconds'. Then, it connects again and the shares are actually accepted for a while. Eventually, the shares stop getting accepted and the whole process repeats. Anyone else seeing similar behavior?

I'm going to let it run overnight and see how it goes.
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Can anyone else confirm that you actually make ~$50? And can you remove your credit card from the account?

+1, I wonder how to remove my credit card info from the acc also.


for the A4 Linux machines, which protominer build should I select from the mega.nz collection?

I setup an A7 linux package and found the CPU to be an Opteron 4171 HE [Hex-core – Lisbon (4162-4184)]. This didn't match to any of the architecture types in the Mega download, so I chose generic (testing with the '512' version right now, but maybe I can use the '2048').

To find your CPU info in Linux use
Code:
cat /proc/cpuinfo
It lists information about each core (usually all identical, so it repeated the same thing 8 times in my case).

I'm getting 105 collisions/min. What's everyone else getting?

THANKS BitshireHashaway  Grin


Edit: The VM has 58 GB of RAM so I'll definitely try the 2048 build. With the 512 build protominer is taking up 7.3GB.

This is the speed with the '2048' build, by the way. It was not faster than the 512.

Code:
collisions/min: 101.5179, warmup; Shares found: 0, submitted 0, accepted 0
collisions/min: 101.8421, warmup; Shares found: 0, submitted 0, accepted 0
Share found!
collisions/min: 101.6379, warmup; Shares found: 1, submitted 1, accepted 0

I'm only getting avg 90 collisions/min. How you get 105?? o.O

Edit: Set my thread to 8 and it got back to 100++ c/min.
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for the A4 Linux machines, which protominer build should I select from the mega.nz collection?

I setup an A7 linux package and found the CPU to be an Opteron 4171 HE [Hex-core – Lisbon (4162-4184)]. This didn't match to any of the architecture types in the Mega download, so I chose generic (testing with the '512' version right now, but maybe I can use the '2048').

To find your CPU info in Linux use
Code:
cat /proc/cpuinfo
It lists information about each core (usually all identical, so it repeated the same thing 8 times in my case).

I'm getting 105 collisions/min. What's everyone else getting?

THANKS BitshireHashaway  Grin


Edit: The VM has 58 GB of RAM so I'll definitely try the 2048 build. With the 512 build protominer is taking up 7.3GB.

This is the speed with the '2048' build, by the way. It was not faster than the 512.

Code:
collisions/min: 101.5179, warmup; Shares found: 0, submitted 0, accepted 0
collisions/min: 101.8421, warmup; Shares found: 0, submitted 0, accepted 0
Share found!
collisions/min: 101.6379, warmup; Shares found: 1, submitted 1, accepted 0
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Thanks for the guide! I don't see why everyones complaining about free cryptocoins haha.
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for the A4 Linux machines, which protominer build should I select from the mega.nz collection?
Choose either "generic" or "barcelona".
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Can anyone else confirm that you actually make ~$50? And can you remove your credit card from the account?
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If you have to have a Credit Card on file then you can't make multiple accounts with anonymous names, which makes this completely worthless. Not worth my time to POSSIBLY profit ~$50.

It takes maybe 30 minutes from start to finish. Then you just let it run.
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If you have to have a Credit Card on file then you can't make multiple accounts with anonymous names, which makes this completely worthless. Not worth my time to POSSIBLY profit ~$50.
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onore dikeido
da** why everything require credit card, i hate bankster  Grin
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for the A4 Linux machines, which protominer build should I select from the mega.nz collection?
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