Primecoin now supports pooled mining! If you sign up
please use my referral link below. I take no responsibility for your results or the security of this arrangement! Usually I would suggest not using root for anything, but hey, time's a wastin'!
1) Go to
DigitalOcean and sign up for an account.
FYI, signing up for multiple accounts using the same info is against their terms of service. If you do this you may have your account removed by DigitalOcean.
2) Create an Ubuntu 13.10 x64 droplet with the size you want.
3) You will be emailed an IP address and password. SSH into your new VM.
4) Enter this beast into the console, replacing the primecoin address with your own wallet address and the genproclimit with the number of CPUs you're paying for:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y screen yasm git make g++ build-essential libminiupnpc-dev libboost-all-dev libdb++-dev libgmp-dev libssl-dev dos2unix; git clone https://github.com/thbaumbach/primecoin; cd ~/primecoin/src; make -f makefile.unix; screen ./primeminer -poolip=54.200.248.75 -poolport=1337 -pooluser=Acrenf7WMZ3yFc7xkdbF8rGuuLw36Bkknr -poolpassword=PASSWORD -genproclimit=1What's happening here is that we get all the packages needed for building, we download the source for the miner and make the binary executable. Once it's running we connect to the beeeeer pool. You can disconnect from screen without stopping mining by pressing ctrl-a; then d. To reconnect to the miner use `screen -d`.
Once you've started finding shares head over to (after replacing your XPM address):
http://beeeeer.org/user/Acrenf7WMZ3yFc7xkdbF8rGuuLw36BkknrThe current payout threshold is 3.01 XPM.
BONUS POINTS:
Set it up as a service that starts at boot and clone the droplet.
NOTE: If you get this error,
g++: internal compiler error: Killed (program cc1plus)
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See for instructions.
make: *** [obj/db.o] Error 4
It's because you're on a small droplet (like me). So add swap space, run make, and start the miner!
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=64M count=16; sudo mkswap /swapfile; sudo swapon /swapfile; make -f makefile.unix; screen ./primeminer -poolip=54.200.248.75 -poolport=1337 -pooluser=Acrenf7WMZ3yFc7xkdbF8rGuuLw36Bkknr -poolpassword=PASSWORD -genproclimit=8Stickers!Got my DigitalOcean stickers today!
You can request your own by emailing
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