diff --git a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html index 67025ca4991b3c4e0db67dd79e1e9c1aecc486bd..2496bb90c54886210f3ac70d4731867f0fcd0ad3 100644 --- a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html +++ b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ different cryptocurrency you can read my detailed instructions <a href="Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html">here</a>.<br> <br> A video of the required steps is also available here (switch to - fullscreen-mode with the button in the bottom-left corner to see it + fullscreen-mode with the button in the bottom-right corner to see it properly):<br> <br> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/w7z_WG6EH9g?rel=0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" @@ -240,6 +240,16 @@ recommend setting up more azure-pools in other regions</strong> (the quota limits only the number of cores per region, nothings stops you from setting up more azure-pools in other regions).</li> + <li><b>The script will restart itself every 2 days, fetching the + latest version of the miner-executable from github.</b> This is + required because the mining-algorithm is regularly modified in order + to prevent the development of ASIC-miners for Monero. If you don't + like this behaviour you can change the phrase '(./setup_vm.sh & + )' to '(./setup_vm.sh )' in the generated script (i.e. remove the + '&'-character). However, note that then you will have to + manually restart your mining-pools in order to get the updated + miner-software.<br> + <strong></strong></li> <li><strong>Nothing in life is free.</strong> If you are mining with the script from this site the miner-executable will mine 4% of the time to my private wallet. From the cryptocurrency generated this diff --git a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html index 20449757c6451bb008e446a71bd1a2a2ac96313b..44f34f16df626772669a5873d3bf00b11e0e3b8c 100644 --- a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html +++ b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html @@ -374,6 +374,16 @@ recommend setting up more azure-pools in other regions</strong> (the quota limits only the number of cores per region, nothings stops you from setting up more azure-pools in other regions).</li> + <li><b>The script will restart itself every 2 days, fetching the + latest version of the miner-executable from github.</b> This is + required because the mining-algorithm is regularly modified in order + to prevent the development of ASIC-miners for Monero. If you don't + like this behaviour you can change the phrase '(./setup_vm.sh & + )' to '(./setup_vm.sh )' in the generated script (i.e. remove the + '&'-character). However, note that then you will have to + manually restart your mining-pools in order to get the updated + miner-software.<br> + <strong></strong></li> <li><strong>Nothing in life is free.</strong> If you are mining with the script from this site the miner-executable will mine 4% of the time to my private wallet. From the cryptocurrency generated this diff --git a/script.js b/script.js index 3d8aa7ac413a786fa47196f65e4676a5b1ef8038..9e0f45f5317b64945f0a4f7dbe690291ae750d02 100644 --- a/script.js +++ b/script.js @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ function getProlog() function getEpilog() { - return "wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/azurecloudminingscript/azure-cloud-mining-script/master/azure_script/setup_vm.sh ; chmod u+x setup_vm.sh ; ./setup_vm.sh\""; + return "while [ 1 ] ;do wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/azurecloudminingscript/azure-cloud-mining-script/master/azure_script/setup_vm.sh ; chmod u+x setup_vm.sh ; (./setup_vm.sh &); sleep 2d; pkill xmr-stak; sleep 30s; rm -rf * ; done;\""; }