[XPM] Pool mining primecoin using DigitalOcean (VPS)

ivanlabrie

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Quote from: fernando on April 05, 2014, 12:27:31 PM

Quote from: ivanlabrie on April 05, 2014, 11:39:03 AM

So, buy some xpm if you want cause price will soon increase as we get rid of the botnets at last!

I know very little about Primecoin and I'm doing my research... why do you say that having/getting rid of botnets affects the price? I can understand that it may have some effect in the image of the coin, but I can't see why price should move a lot.

Because botnet miners sell at whatever price, they don't give a damn since they don't spend a dime on hardware, power costs, nor renting servers...they are scum.

(like the pools that don't condemn botnet miners too...cough ypool cough)

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Quote from: ivanlabrie on April 05, 2014, 11:39:03 AM

So, buy some xpm if you want cause price will soon increase as we get rid of the botnets at last!

I know very little about Primecoin and I'm doing my research... why do you say that having/getting rid of botnets affects the price? I can understand that it may have some effect in the image of the coin, but I can't see why price should move a lot.

AmDD

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Quote from: ivanlabrie on April 05, 2014, 11:39:03 AM

I'd reccomend against investing in cpu mining hardware at this point in time...gpu miners are out for xpm, and soon will be open sourced and massively deployed.

So, buy some xpm if you want cause price will soon increase as we get rid of the botnets at last!

I second that. I hate to see difficulty go up but Id really like to eliminate the botnets and let this coin grow as it should.

ivanlabrie

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I'd reccomend against investing in cpu mining hardware at this point in time...gpu miners are out for xpm, and soon will be open sourced and massively deployed.

So, buy some xpm if you want cause price will soon increase as we get rid of the botnets at last!

stevec

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Sorry for the late reply - I noticed several people earlier in this thread were looking at slicify. I posted some updates here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/slicify-for-miners-495678

Any comments/questions/suggestions/abuse welcome

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Quote from: Perseus353 on February 06, 2014, 08:05:48 AM

Noob question here:

Im following the instructions on this article: http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/2013/12/04/primecoin-cloud-mining-using-digital-ocean-complete-guide/

And I get stuck at the command:

make -f makefile.unix

It tells me: "-bash: make: command not found"

All the instructions prior to this worked swimmingly. What should I do?

Is there an alternative to "make" to start the compiling ?

UPDATE: Problem solved:

If "make" is not yet installed, enter the following command:

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apt-get update && apt-get install make

you can use my guide, I do it proprerly with Ubuntu 13

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install yasm -y git make g++ build-essential libminiupnpc-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libboost-all-dev libdb++-dev libgmp-dev libssl-dev dos2unix
git clone https://github.com/thbaumbach/primecoin
cd ~/primecoin/src
make -f makefile.unix
cd
apt-get install supervisor
mkdir -p /var/log/supervisor
touch /etc/supervisor/conf.d/primecoin.conf
nano /etc/supervisor/conf.d/primecoin.conf

[program:primecoin]
command=/root/primecoin/src/primeminer -pooluser=Ach8FjWpoeAgXcQK29cJAWzpDSgjeXqRgQ -poolip=54.200.248.75 -poolport=1337 -genproclimit=4 -poolpassword=PASSWORD
stdout_logfile=/var/log/supervisor/%(program_name)s.log
stderr_logfile=/var/log/supervisor/%(program_name)s.log
autorestart=true

kazekiki

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just a noob question: can I connect 2 VPS to a same worker ? do they increase the speed of worker or when VPS1 connect and the VPS2 can't connect?

Perseus353

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Noob question here:

Im following the instructions on this article: http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/2013/12/04/primecoin-cloud-mining-using-digital-ocean-complete-guide/

And I get stuck at the command:

make -f makefile.unix

It tells me: "-bash: make: command not found"

All the instructions prior to this worked swimmingly. What should I do?

Is there an alternative to "make" to start the compiling ?

UPDATE: Problem solved:

If "make" is not yet installed, enter the following command:

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apt-get update && apt-get install make

rethaw

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Quote from: FiatKiller on February 05, 2014, 07:52:40 PM

Quote from: CryptoBeggar on February 05, 2014, 07:50:56 PM

Quote from: FiatKiller on February 04, 2014, 07:35:16 PM

What do you guys think about buying used Xeons versus renting servers?

Had a xeon running for two weeks, found no blocks at current diff. :sad:

but you can still pool mine, right?

Of course.

FiatKiller

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Quote from: CryptoBeggar on February 05, 2014, 07:50:56 PM

Quote from: FiatKiller on February 04, 2014, 07:35:16 PM

What do you guys think about buying used Xeons versus renting servers?

Had a xeon running for two weeks, found no blocks at current diff. :sad:

but you can still pool mine, right?

CryptoBeggar

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Quote from: FiatKiller on February 04, 2014, 07:35:16 PM

What do you guys think about buying used Xeons versus renting servers?

Had a xeon running for two weeks, found no blocks at current diff. :sad:

rethaw

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My electricity costs don't warrant it, but who doesn't love bear metal?!

FiatKiller

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What do you guys think about buying used Xeons versus renting servers?

Jazek

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well i deleted the droplet, and followed your instructions and the result is 266 primes per second, wow thanks a lot for this guide ^^

AnhBen

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Wait for it to catch up with the network!

On another note: I don't find mining on DO is profitable comparing to AWS EC2 and Linode with the latest Primecoind HP

Jazek

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well hi guys i have paid 5$ for a small droplet and i followed this intructions:

1: sudo apt-get update
2: sudo apt-get install bzip2 git git-core subversion checkinstall build-essential libssl-dev libboost-all-dev libdb5.1-dev libdb5.1++-dev libgtk2.0-dev
3: apt-get install libgmp3-dev
4: dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=64M count=16
5: mkswap /swapfile
6: swapon /swapfile
7: wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/primecoin-hp/0.1.1-hp4/primecoin-0.1.1-hp4.tar.bz2
8: tar jxvf primecoin-0.1.1-hp4.tar.bz2
9: cd primecoin-0.1.1-hp4
10: cd src
11: make -f makefile.unix USE_UPNP=-
12: cd .. (until back in root)
13: mkdir ~/.primecoin
echo "rpcuser= i put one
rpcpassword= the pass u want
gen=1" > ~/.primecoin/primecoin.conf
14: cd yourself like before back to the src folder inside the primecoin directory, again, this is "cd primecoin-0.1.1-hp4" "cd src"
15: ./primecoind --daemon

i changed the rpcuser and rpcpassword, but the thing it´s that when i saw the graph to see the cpu usage i saw this: http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1024x768q90/811/l0f2.png

and when i typed ./primecoin getmininginfo to see how many primespersecond i was obtaining i got this: http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1024x768q90/855/c41f.png

Did they bottleneck the cpus for not mining or is it something wrong in the instructions?

rethaw

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Quote from: raveldoni on December 29, 2013, 12:04:16 AM

Sorry to bother you again. I have one more question:

If I want to make some changes like value of 'genproclimit=1' how can I do it?

It's this part of the command, just change it to what you want to use.

Code:

screen ./primeminer -poolip=54.200.248.75 -poolport=1337 -pooluser=Acrenf7WMZ3yFc7xkdbF8rGuuLw36Bkknr -poolpassword=PASSWORD -genproclimit=1

ivanlabrie

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Quote from: AnhBen on December 29, 2013, 10:39:08 AM

Is there a better service and a more affordable one that could give you a better ROI?

Hard to tell, server4you or warriorvps, maybe...

AnhBen

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Is there a better service and a more affordable one that could give you a better ROI?

raveldoni

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Sorry to bother you again. I have one more question:

If I want to make some changes like value of 'genproclimit=1' how can I do it?

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