Topic: [XMR] Monero Mining - page 37. (Read 264922 times)

You probably want to make your own image, anyway, so I guess you would need to start an instance in Oregon, save it as your own, and then you can launch from any region. I'm not entirely sure tbh, as I've only ever used Oregon region.

How do we set up on different regions? I only see the XMRminer AMIs in USA/Oregon.

Well it won't take a bad address, so if you type it in wrong, you would get an error. And it won't mine without an address.

So if you type show_hr and it shows a hash rate, then you're good (you can use hide_hr to get rid of the scrolling numbers)

Soon we want to have a tool to look up transactions to View Keys, which we have published for the donation address, but unfortunately that tool still doesn't exist.

But if your node is successfully mining and you find a block it will be sent. You can also look for "block found" in the bitmonerod.log file, but of course one node doesn't find a block that often.

Thanks for your effort on this!

There are instructions for setting it up to launch automatically using rc.local toward the end of the guide. I agree it would be cool to have XRMdev images/AMIs that you just launch and they autostart mining for dev donation address. If I get a chance this week I will set that up.

I have tried it with the same AMI. It won't launch the GPU miner but all else works fine.

If you set it up for GPU mining you will probably have some some problems launching it on a non-GPU instance.

But probably two different AMIs would cover all the types.

You could also configure it for the script to start automatically at system startup. This way you would only have to launch the instance or instances and you'd be mining.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12973777/how-to-run-a-shell-script-at-startup

And maybe create an AMI with this with the DEV fund address and anyone who would want to just had to launch the instances without having access them to configure stuff. Thus lowering the barrier to entry.

The instructions would be cut in half to get an account and launch your instances.

I'll only be able to do this this evening (and don't even know if people would trust my AMI), so if some trusted member of the community could set it up earlier it would certainly help.

I would also advise to spread the instances over the various regions so that we do not compete with each other for the low prices.
Also if we rely only in spot instances there may be none available if someone (for example an attacker) were to instantiate 1000s of instances for the full price.

There's a whole host of different instances that could be used. Don't look only at g2.2xlarge and c3.8xlarge. If we could spread it also to other instances it could prevent some of the problems above (the AMI would work fine with any of them although with a lower hashrate. And it would be good also for people who can't afford the higher end ones)

And don't forget the free tier (about 8h/s but free).

Thanks for the answers

My point isn't so much efficiency, it's just that I do note my mac being less responsive, so if it doesn't really do much and it's a bit of a nuisance, I'd rather only do the mining via ec2 alone.

Another question: since I don't control the dev's address, and I have no way of seeing what is inside, is there any way to make sure I do actually transfer mining income into their control, i.e. I didn't fuck something up in the setup?

just don't expect it to pay the electricity it consumes, not even if you sell at 3x the current price ;-)

Use either wolf miner: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/wolfs-xmrbcndsh-cpuminer-2x-speed-compared-to-lucasjones-new-06202014-632724
open source

Or use yam miner: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/yam-m7v-support-xmrqcnbcnfcn-660758
closed source

need help please... i am mining xmr in my gpu can i mine in cpu also at the same time?
if possible how can i set it up thanks in advance...

It's not much. You might want to be especially careful with a macbook. I don't have any first hand knowledge, but I've read on the internet (it must be true!), that mac's tend to be particularly prone to damage caused by overheating, due to either apple's thin form factor that leads to poor heat dissipation, or they just limit the fans so the laptop can't get as noisy.

With that being said, I have an i5 hp lappie that I mostly leave at school (free power), that has been mining monero and other stuff on four threads for the past year or so with no problems at all.

It could be worse.

If you don't mind it being on, you could let it hash for at least a few days.

Complete mining newbie reporting in, with some questions.

Decided to dabble in xmr mining a bit, to support the network, and put any hypothetical earnings into the dev address, as per smooth's suggestion. Getting started on Amazon's EC2 as well, but also wanted to see if I can put my Macbook to use... here's the result:





I might as well turn it off, right? I'm adding about 40 H/s, which is for all practical purposes negligible, correct?

Just go and pick some Xeon's off of the tree in your backyard, or Opteron's in the front.

Or GPU's from down on the farm.

 

You haven't factored in the price of the hardware at all.

In general though, it is not the most efficient way to mine long term, but a good way to get more capacity on short notice without an up front hardware investment, setup, etc.

If we assume the electricity price is $0.075 per kWh, that is equivalent to 1000W for 650h/s. For AMD GPU, that is about 500h/s per 130W, or 3800h/s per 1000W. AWS is not so efficient.

I am getting 350 h/s from CPU and ~300 h/s from GPU so combined it is about 650 h/s.

GPU hashrate is not as consistent as the CPU, so delivered hashrate varies a bit.

Not bad for ~7.5 cents an hour, but "profitable" is a relative term, depending on what pool you mine on, luck, & when you sell the Monero, eh?

You will probably lose a little at current prices. The reason to do this is to secure the network with honest miners, or if you want to get more XMR while paying in fiat (credit card). If you want to make a profit mining you need to use your own gear (or hope the price goes up).

What is the hash rate of this setup? I just want to know if it is possible to make profit from AWS etc. It seems the hash rate of XMR is too high considering the price is so low.