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Topic: [XPM] Pool mining primecoin using DigitalOcean (VPS) - page 31. (Read 88579 times)

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I had a rebate prepaid american express card with $7 left on it so I figured I would try this out. I configured them for LTC tho. I have 21 drops running all 8 core. I'm getting about 550kh/s total.

Idk if anyone realized but you can keep creating new accounts with the same debit card. The promo code works on them all too, $10 each account.

Also you have to type the code in to make it work, copy/paste doesn't activate the code oddly.

Also, if you do what I did use the ones out of amsterdam, for some reason I was getting bugged ones in the US, it wouldnt give me an IP and just sit there saying its new but not activated. The amsterdam ones worked every time.

Would you share your PPS on the 8-core? Thanks.

According to SunnyKing, the PPS is not indicative of mining performance.  But I guess it's all we have..
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I tried this method on AWS but I couldn't get any PPS to show at all. It stayed at 0. I tried on multiple different systems as well. Suggestions?
I already have an account with AWS so I figured I'd go there. Shouldn't matter where I do this should it?

I had the same problem a few hours ago. It resolved itself. It just need some time to update. I think it took around 1 hour.

Which AWS instance are you using? I tried a few different ones and have had better results at DO. Even tried adding entropy... never got above 5.



I am using CC2 8XL. Thought I'd go big. Bad idea?
Im also a linux noob. What is entropy and why should I use it?

In order to generate random numbers or cryptographic keys the program uses random seeds. On bare metal /dev/random is overflowing with noise from device drivers, sources of entropy. In a VM a program may have to wait during execution for the randomness pool to refill. There are a few different approaches to this, the one I've tried is haveged.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-setup-additional-entropy-for-cloud-servers-using-haveged

EDIT: And please do share what you find!
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I tried this method on AWS but I couldn't get any PPS to show at all. It stayed at 0. I tried on multiple different systems as well. Suggestions?
I already have an account with AWS so I figured I'd go there. Shouldn't matter where I do this should it?

I had the same problem a few hours ago. It resolved itself. It just need some time to update. I think it took around 1 hour.

Which AWS instance are you using? I tried a few different ones and have had better results at DO. Even tried adding entropy... never got above 5.



I am using CC2 8XL. Thought I'd go big. Bad idea?
Im also a linux noob. What is entropy and why should I use it?
sr. member
Activity: 378
Merit: 255
I had a rebate prepaid american express card with $7 left on it so I figured I would try this out. I configured them for LTC tho. I have 21 drops running all 8 core. I'm getting about 550kh/s total.

Idk if anyone realized but you can keep creating new accounts with the same debit card. The promo code works on them all too, $10 each account.

Also you have to type the code in to make it work, copy/paste doesn't activate the code oddly.

Also, if you do what I did use the ones out of amsterdam, for some reason I was getting bugged ones in the US, it wouldnt give me an IP and just sit there saying its new but not activated. The amsterdam ones worked every time.

Would you share your PPS on the 8-core? Thanks.
sr. member
Activity: 378
Merit: 255
I tried this method on AWS but I couldn't get any PPS to show at all. It stayed at 0. I tried on multiple different systems as well. Suggestions?
I already have an account with AWS so I figured I'd go there. Shouldn't matter where I do this should it?

I had the same problem a few hours ago. It resolved itself. It just need some time to update. I think it took around 1 hour.

Which AWS instance are you using? I tried a few different ones and have had better results at DO. Even tried adding entropy... never got above 5.

I have 4 instances that currently has
a pps of: 49 - 36 - 17 - 18

they're fluctuating a lot though.

My experience is that "New York 1" server region has the best performance.

Thanks added to OP.
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^
Alright. Giving it another go.
Thanks
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I tried this method on AWS but I couldn't get any PPS to show at all. It stayed at 0. I tried on multiple different systems as well. Suggestions?
I already have an account with AWS so I figured I'd go there. Shouldn't matter where I do this should it?

I had the same problem a few hours ago. It resolved itself. It just need some time to update. I think it took around 1 hour.
sr. member
Activity: 441
Merit: 250
I tried this method on AWS but I couldn't get any PPS to show at all. It stayed at 0. I tried on multiple different systems as well. Suggestions?
I already have an account with AWS so I figured I'd go there. Shouldn't matter where I do this should it?
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You dont have to add a credit card - just enter the promo code - then you get credited the $10. You just cannot add a droplet without paying at least $5 via Paypal or entering credit card data afterwards.

Yeah, that too...I'd rather add my credit card and not use the service anymore unless it works for me.
$5 is cheep anyway Smiley
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You dont have to add a credit card - just enter the promo code - then you get credited the $10. You just cannot add a droplet without paying at least $5 via Paypal or entering credit card data afterwards.
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PXC Research Team
You have to add a credit card to be able to add the promo code $.

OK so it means I have no chance. Thanks
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You have to add a credit card to be able to add the promo code $.
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PXC Research Team
Hello guys it never asked me to put in the code. It is just asking about the payment methods and the only options are paypal and credit. Huh
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Idk if anyone realized but you can keep creating new accounts with the same debit card. The promo code works on them all too, $10 each account.

Check the ToS, pretty sure I read last night this was against the rules and likely to get your accounts flagged as "suspicious".
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I have 4 instances that currently has
a pps of: 49 - 36 - 17 - 18

they're fluctuating a lot though.

My experience is that "New York 1" server region has the best performance.
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Have opened two droplets atm.

Highest PPS i've seen until now was 9 - so for these two droplets its 0-9 PPS
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https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2692552

Did you follow all steps in guide posted above?
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Hey,

 I can't seem to get my wallet out, could anyone give me some instructions.

when i type in primecoind dumpprivkey $address


i get

error: {"code":-1,"message":"dumpprivkey \nReveals the private key corresponding to ."}


Thanks/
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Just wanted to thank whomever it was that sent me a tip!


    "address" : "ANgVru19oYJU86NdGYTSVJSY8Y1MiCPkze",
    "category" : "receive",
    "amount" : 5.00000000,
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Can I get detailed instructions on how to transfer coins from the droplets to my wallet?
Thanks. Smiley

There are a few ways, once its matured.

primecoind sendtoaddress yourhomeaddress amount

Before its matured:

from vps:

primecoind listtransactions # to get the receiving address
primecoind dumpprivkey $receiving_address

from home:

primecoind importprivkey $privkey_from_vps

I then remove the wallet.dat from the vps to get all new keys, though its not necessary.

Yeah, thanks for helping people who are too lazy to use Google get all the blocks.

You don't know me moron...OP is doing a great service here, don't let your greed make you troll random folk.

I don't need to know you to see that you need to beg on a forum for information that you could easily get from Google. OP is helping along people who have done no research into cryptos and just want to make some "magic internet money". By the way, you're the one using VPS services to mine, while I'm mining on machines I own. You call me greedy?

Or, conversely, they are people who truly believe in cryptocurrency and want to support an idea they believe in, and primecoin sure seems to have garnered the love of the community by utilizing novel algorithms.

How long have you been here again? I have been hashing away since BTC was $2. I am no moron when it comes to computers, but I am a biologist...my coding knowledge caps out with systat and excel statistical packages. I wouldn't have been able to piece this together without this thread. Is me mining on the primecoin network with additional resources somehow a bad thing? Is having a secure network bad? Is a solid and fair (READ: IT'S FUCKING FREE) distribution of hashing power detrimental to the survival and proliferation of XPM?

Your statement is wholly influenced by selfishness, profit, and greed, and you look like a giant asshole. You're really taking the moral high horse because you are too, I don't know...arrogant/stupid/proud to utilize free VPS service? Seriously, dude...go to bed. You're getting cranky.

So, you've been hashing for that long, and you still don't know how to use a *coind? I find that really hard to believe. No, you mining is not a bad thing, but refusing to do your own research and wasting other people's time to make money IS a bad thing.

And using VPS services is just trying to get more than your fair share.

Seriously, guy. How is utilizing resources available to me trying to get more than my "fair share"? The fact that you use the term fair share shows how delusionally entitled you are. Let me guess...early 20s, US, white, upper middle class. So let me ask you this...is someone who is driving a benz next to my shitty truck somehow getting more than their fare share? If anything, I would have to say that you are just failing to allocate your "fair share" by failing to use the tools at hand.

Furthermore, you understand that SOMEONE wrote everything on the internet, right? Sure, I could sit down and become a world class programmer...lucky for me, I don't have to bother learning a bunch shit I couldn't give a flying fuck about. I can rely on the culture of specialization that has emerged since the renaissance and let a programming specialist either carry out the task or teach me. Concurrently, you can rely on me to establish and implement regulation to preserve the world's oceans, or you can approach me and I will more than happily tell you everything I know. Teamwork, son. It's the way the world goes round for 99.99% of humanity.

Out of curiousity, did you make a single item of clothes you wear? Did you assemble your car from a mound of Taconite, rubber and silicone? How about your PC? Did you design your CPU and then build a fab shop by hand to make it for you? Sounds like you are just some lowlife, trying to get more than your fair share.
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