diff --git a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html
index 38d1c931a314a819d3c5216bf6f069468bf716b2..cd38db0ae4160ef0cf49d1c73119866221288354 100644
--- a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html
+++ b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
<div class="Background">
<div class="Content"> You are reading the quickstart-instructions. Click <a
href="Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html">here</a>
- to go to the detailed instructions.
+ to go to the detailed instructions (basic mining-knowledge is required).
<hr>
<h1>How to Turn Your Azure Free Credits into Cryptocurrency</h1>
<p>The rate can fluctuate between 1:1 and 1:4, i.e. in the best case
@@ -42,11 +42,11 @@
<li><strong>Start mining with the Azure-Batch-Service using the
scripts provided here</strong></li>
</ul>
- With the instructions provided here you will be mining Monero. <strong>Monero
- is one of the top-altcoins and better than bitcoin in virtually every
- aspect</strong> (i guess bitcoin beats Monero only in popularity). If
- you are interested in a different cryptocurrency you can read my
- detailed instructions <a href="Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html">here</a>.<br>
+ With the instructions provided here you will be mining Monero. <strong><a
+ href="https://getmonero.org/">Monero</a> is one of the top-altcoins
+ and better than bitcoin in virtually every aspect</strong> (i guess
+ bitcoin beats Monero only in popularity). If you are interested in a
+ different cryptocurrency you can read my detailed instructions <a href="Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html">here</a>.<br>
<ul>
</ul>
<h1>Setup Azure with Free Credit</h1>
@@ -66,15 +66,17 @@
operating on a razor-thin margin!</p>
<h1>Get a Monero-Wallet</h1>
<p>There are many ways how to create a Monero-wallet. The easiest is to
- setup a web-wallet with MyMonero.com. </p>
+ setup a web-wallet with <a href="https://mymonero.com/">MyMonero.com</a>.
+ </p>
<p>Cryptocurrencies are notorious for being targets of spectacular
hacks. A web-wallet like MyMonero.com is a good way to get started.<strong>
However, once you have accumulated a non-trivial amount of Monero
you should educate yourself about the possible alternatives!</strong></p>
- <p>By the way: <strong>if you don't already have a password-safe like
- keepass you should definitely start using one to store your
- wallet-details</strong> (and of course all other passwords you are
- using). Trust me, you'll regret it if you don't start now.<strong><br>
+ <p>By the way: <strong>if you don't already have a password-safe like <a
+ href="https://www.keepassx.org/"> keepass</a> you should
+ definitely start using one to store your wallet-details</strong>
+ (and of course all other passwords you are using). Trust me, you'll
+ regret it if you don't start now.<strong><br>
</strong></p>
<h1>Setup the Azure Batch-Service </h1>
<p>After signing up for your azure-account you can click on the
@@ -92,7 +94,7 @@
<li><strong>Click on 'Create' at the bottom to create the
batch-account</strong></li>
</ul>
- <p> Once you get the notification that your batch-accout has been
+ <p> Once you get the notification that your batch-account has been
created (it will take a few seconds), go to your batch-account and <strong>create
a new pool</strong>: select <strong>'Pools'</strong> and then click
<strong>'Add'</strong>. Fill the form with the following information:<br>
@@ -127,8 +129,8 @@
execute a custom script which will download the mining-executable and
start mining. <strong>Enter your Monero-wallet here and click on the
button to generate your personalized startup-script</strong> (it
- should look similar to
-46ZRy92vZy2RefigQ8BRKJZN7sj4KgfHc2D8yHXF9xHHbhxye3uD9VANn6etLbowZDNGHrwkWhtw3gFtxMeTyXgP3U1zP5C):</p>
+ should look similar to </p>
+ <p>4999aeniCU9Ug67vs7yvyJTSkxVUZRirUYUerT66fqzoYMhiShFLBqZHmFxmPD6oABafM5cVKc77yj3Fypvi9CDRTYEvDPL):</p>
<input name="wallet_id" size="100" id="wallet1" type="text"><button name="Generate script!"
value="Generate script!" type="button" onclick="assemblescript()">Generate
script!</button><br>
@@ -189,19 +191,20 @@
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
- <p>If azure is setup to use your local currency instead of USD the
- numbers might look slightly different.. if you run out of free credit
- before the end of the month, just reduce the number of nodes by one
- and try again. </p>
+ <p>If azure is using your local currency instead of USD the numbers
+ might look slightly different. If you run out of free credit before
+ the end of the month, just reduce the number of nodes by one and try
+ again. </p>
<p><strong>Now go back to 'Overview' and click on 'Scale'. Enter the
number from the table above in the field 'Low priority nodes' (e.g.
3 if you have MSDN Professional), and click on 'Save'.
Congratulations! The azure cloud is now mining Monero for you!</strong></p>
<h1>Watching your Mining-Progress</h1>
- <p>The script is using xmrpool.eu as a mining-pool (don't mixup the
- terms 'mining-pool' and 'azure-pool' - they describe two totally
- different concepts). To see your mining-status go to xmrpool.eu and
- enter your wallet. </p>
+ <p>The script is using <a href="https://web.xmrpool.eu/">xmrpool.eu</a>
+ as a mining-pool (don't mixup the terms 'mining-pool' and 'azure-pool'
+ - they describe two totally different concepts). To see your
+ mining-status, go to <a href="https://web.xmrpool.eu/">xmrpool.eu</a>,
+ scroll down to the bottom of the page and enter your wallet. </p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Approximately 5 minutes after starting your azure-pool you
should be able to see the number of submitted hashes slowly
diff --git a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html
index 1b3fe30fb950a1303effcfe6d319bf1d4ba07d06..20449757c6451bb008e446a71bd1a2a2ac96313b 100644
--- a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html
+++ b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html
@@ -50,9 +50,9 @@
</head>
<body>
<div class="Background">
- <div class="Content">You are reading the detailed instructions. Click <a
- href="Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html">here</a>
- to go to the quickstart-instructions.<br>
+ <div class="Content">You are reading the detailed instructions (basic
+ mining-knowledge is assumed). Click <a href="Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html">here</a>
+ to go to the simplified quickstart-instructions.<br>
<hr>
<h1>How to Turn Your Azure Free Credits into Cryptocurrency: Detailed
Instructions</h1>
@@ -66,8 +66,7 @@
<li><strong>You'll need a azure-account with free-credit, e.g. from a
MSDN-subscription</strong></li>
<strong> </strong>
- <li><strong>Get a Nicehash.com-account (or mine directly to a
- cryptonight-pool)<br>
+ <li><strong>Chose a cryptonight-pool (or get a Nicehash.com-account)<br>
</strong></li>
<strong> </strong>
<li><strong>Start mining with the Azure-Batch-Service using the
@@ -88,18 +87,17 @@
you bill or not it might even be profitable to keep running your
azure-account on your credit-card - but note that you'll be operating
on a razor-thin margin!</p>
- <h1>Setup Nicehash.com account (or choose other cryptonight-pool)</h1>
- <p>With the scripts provided on this site you can setup your
- azure-servers to mine with the <strong>cryptonight-algorithm</strong>.
- The cryptonight-algorithm can be efficiently run on standard server
- hardware, special ASICs or GPUs are not required (the algorithm was
+ <h1>Chose Cryptonight-Pool (or Setup Nicehash.com account)</h1>
+ <p>With the scripts provided on this site you can mine with the <strong>cryptonight-algorithm</strong>.
+ The cryptonight-algorithm can be efficiently run on standard hardware,
+ special ASICs or GPUs are not required (the algorithm was
intentionally designed that way). The cryptocurrency <a href="https://getmonero.org/">Monero</a>
is based on this algorithm, and it is better than bitcoin in virtually
- every aspect (i guess bitcoin beats Monero only in popularity...). You
- could mine directly to a <a href="https://moneropools.com/">Monero-pool</a>,
- but there are several other cryptocurrencies based on cryptonight
- available as well. When choosing a pool, pay attention to the pool's
- rules:</p>
+ every aspect (i guess bitcoin beats Monero only in popularity...). <strong>You
+ could mine directly to a <a href="https://moneropools.com/">Monero-pool</a>,
+ but there are several other cryptocurrencies based on cryptonight
+ available as well.</strong> When choosing a pool, pay attention to
+ the pool's rules:</p>
<ul>
<li>What are the pool's fees? This just means that your payout is
decreased by the given percentage.</li>
@@ -113,21 +111,23 @@
<li>You'll need to setup a wallet first. For Monero probably the
easiest way to get started is <a href="https://mymonero.com/#/">mymonero.com</a>.</li>
</ul>
- The alternative is to mine to a pool run by Nicehash.com (i recommend
- mining with Nicehash only if you have MSDN Enterprise). With <a href="https://www.nicehash.com/">Nicehash.com</a>
- you are basically always mining the most profitable altcoin and you get
- paid in bitcoin (read their <a href="https://www.nicehash.com/help/how-does-nicehash-work">documentation</a>
+ <strong>The alternative is to mine to a pool run by Nicehash.com</strong>
+ (i recommend mining with Nicehash only if you have MSDN Enterprise).
+ With <a href="https://www.nicehash.com/">Nicehash.com</a> you are
+ basically always mining the most profitable altcoin and you get paid in
+ bitcoin (read their <a href="https://www.nicehash.com/help/how-does-nicehash-work">documentation</a>
to learn how it works internally). If you are using Nicehash.com you'll
get a special internal wallet, which you can only use with Nicehash.com
- pools. <strong>You can sign up for a free account at <a href="https://www.nicehash.com/register">Nicehash.com/register</a>.</strong>
+ pools. You can sign up for a free account at <a href="https://www.nicehash.com/register">Nicehash.com/register</a>.
<p>It's good practice to setup a secondary pool, in case the primary
pool is offline. Personally i use Nicehash as a primary mining-pool
and the Monero mining-pool <a href="https://web.xmrpool.eu/">xmrpool.eu</a>
as a secondary mining-pool. </p>
- <p>On <a href="https://whattomine.com/coins?utf8=%E2%9C%93&adapt_q_280x=0&adapt_q_380=0&adapt_q_fury=0&adapt_q_470=0&adapt_q_480=3&adapt_q_570=0&adapt_q_580=0&adapt_q_vega56=0&adapt_q_vega64=0&adapt_q_750Ti=0&adapt_q_1050Ti=0&adapt_q_10606=0&adapt_q_1070=0&adapt_q_1070Ti=0&adapt_q_1080=0&adapt_q_1080Ti=0&factor%5Beth_hr%5D=100.0&factor%5Beth_p%5D=405.0&factor%5Bgro_hr%5D=63.9&factor%5Bgro_p%5D=450.0&factor%5Bx11g_hr%5D=20.1&factor%5Bx11g_p%5D=420.0&cn=true&factor%5Bcn_hr%5D=700.0&factor%5Bcn_p%5D=330.0&factor%5Beq_hr%5D=870.0&factor%5Beq_p%5D=360.0&factor%5Blrev2_hr%5D=14700.0&factor%5Blrev2_p%5D=390.0&factor%5Bns_hr%5D=1950.0&factor%5Bns_p%5D=450.0&factor%5Blbry_hr%5D=315.0&factor%5Blbry_p%5D=525.0&factor%5Bbk2b_hr%5D=3450.0&factor%5Bbk2b_p%5D=630.0&factor%5Bbk14_hr%5D=5910.0&factor%5Bbk14_p%5D=570.0&factor%5Bpas_hr%5D=2100.0&factor%5Bpas_p%5D=405.0&factor%5Bskh_hr%5D=54.0&factor%5Bskh_p%5D=345.0&factor%5Bn5_hr%5D=57.0&factor%5Bn5_p%5D=345.0&factor%5Bl2z_hr%5D=420.0&factor%5Bl2z_p%5D=300.0&factor%5Bcost%5D=0.0&sort=Profitability24&volume=0&revenue=24h&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=abucoins&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=bitfinex&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=bittrex&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=cryptopia&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=hitbtc&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=poloniex&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=yobit&dataset=Main&commit=Calculate">whattomine.com</a>
- you can see the estimated daily income when mining with 16 cores (app.
- yield: 700H/s) in the azure cloud. In my experience Nicehash always
- had the best or second-best profitability → look at the
+ <p><strong>On <a href="https://whattomine.com/coins?utf8=%E2%9C%93&adapt_q_280x=0&adapt_q_380=0&adapt_q_fury=0&adapt_q_470=0&adapt_q_480=3&adapt_q_570=0&adapt_q_580=0&adapt_q_vega56=0&adapt_q_vega64=0&adapt_q_750Ti=0&adapt_q_1050Ti=0&adapt_q_10606=0&adapt_q_1070=0&adapt_q_1070Ti=0&adapt_q_1080=0&adapt_q_1080Ti=0&factor%5Beth_hr%5D=100.0&factor%5Beth_p%5D=405.0&factor%5Bgro_hr%5D=63.9&factor%5Bgro_p%5D=450.0&factor%5Bx11g_hr%5D=20.1&factor%5Bx11g_p%5D=420.0&cn=true&factor%5Bcn_hr%5D=700.0&factor%5Bcn_p%5D=330.0&factor%5Beq_hr%5D=870.0&factor%5Beq_p%5D=360.0&factor%5Blrev2_hr%5D=14700.0&factor%5Blrev2_p%5D=390.0&factor%5Bns_hr%5D=1950.0&factor%5Bns_p%5D=450.0&factor%5Blbry_hr%5D=315.0&factor%5Blbry_p%5D=525.0&factor%5Bbk2b_hr%5D=3450.0&factor%5Bbk2b_p%5D=630.0&factor%5Bbk14_hr%5D=5910.0&factor%5Bbk14_p%5D=570.0&factor%5Bpas_hr%5D=2100.0&factor%5Bpas_p%5D=405.0&factor%5Bskh_hr%5D=54.0&factor%5Bskh_p%5D=345.0&factor%5Bn5_hr%5D=57.0&factor%5Bn5_p%5D=345.0&factor%5Bl2z_hr%5D=420.0&factor%5Bl2z_p%5D=300.0&factor%5Bcost%5D=0.0&sort=Profitability24&volume=0&revenue=24h&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=abucoins&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=bitfinex&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=bittrex&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=cryptopia&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=hitbtc&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=poloniex&factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=yobit&dataset=Main&commit=Calculate">whattomine.com</a>
+ you can see the estimated daily income when mining with 16 cores</strong>
+ (app. yield: 700H/s; the number of cores you can use depends on your
+ MSDN-subscription) in the azure cloud. In my experience Nicehash
+ always had the best or second-best profitability → look at the
"Nicehash-CryptoNight"-entry. It might not sound like much at first,
but once you set it up it's free money :-)</p>
<p>Note: Cryptocurrencies are notorious for being targets of spectacular
@@ -199,8 +199,10 @@
<ul>
<li>Wallet for primary mining-pool:</li>
<ul>
- <li>e.g. your personal Monero-wallet, it should look somewhat
- similar to this: <strong>4999aeniCU9Ug67vs7yvyJTSkxVUZRirUYUerT66fqzoYMhiShFLBqZHmFxmPD6oABafM5cVKc77yj3Fypvi9CDRTYEvDPL</strong></li>
+ <li>Your personal Monero-wallet. A random string of characters
+ similar to: <strong>4999aeniCU9Ug67vs7yvyJTSkxVUZRirUYUerT66fqzoYMhiShFLBqZHmFxmPD6oABafM5cVKc77yj3Fypvi9CDRTYEvDPL</strong></li>
+ <li>The nicehash-wallet is also a random string of characters, but
+ is a lot shorter</li>
<li> <input name="wallet1" size="75" id="wallet1" type="text"></li>
</ul>
</ul>
@@ -211,8 +213,10 @@
<ul>
</ul>
<ul>
- <li>e.g. a Monero mining-pool: <strong>xmrpool.eu:3333</strong><strong></strong></li>
- <li> <input name="pool1" size="30" id="pool1" type="text"></li>
+ <li>e.g. a Monero mining-pool: <strong>xmrpool.eu:3333</strong></li>
+ <li>For nicehash you can use: <strong>cryptonight.usa.nicehash.com:3355</strong></li>
+ <strong> </strong>
+ <li> <strong><input name="pool1" size="30" id="pool1" type="text"></strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
</ul>
@@ -302,10 +306,10 @@
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
- <p>If azure is setup to use your local currency instead of USD the
- numbers might look slightly different.. if you run out of free credit
- before the end of the month, just reduce the number of nodes by one
- and try again. </p>
+ <p>If azure is using your local currency instead of USD the numbers
+ might look slightly different. If you run out of free credit before
+ the end of the month, just reduce the number of nodes by one and try
+ again. </p>
<p><strong>Now go back to 'Overview' and click on 'Scale'. Enter the
number from the table above in the field 'Low priority nodes' (e.g.
3 if you have MSDN Professional), and click on 'Save'.
@@ -322,9 +326,10 @@
can simply restart your azure-pool in the next month once your free
credits have been refilled.
<h1>Watching your Mining-Progress</h1>
- <p><strong>If you are using a mining-pool like xmrpool.eu</strong> you
- can see your mining-status if you go to the pool's homepage (e.g.
- xmrpool.eu) and enter your wallet.</p>
+ <p><strong>If you are using xmrpool.eu</strong> you can see your
+ mining-status if you go to the pool's homepage (e.g. <a href="https://web.xmrpool.eu/">xmrpool.eu</a>),
+ scroll down to the bottom of the page and enter your wallet (other
+ mining-pools probably work similarly).</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Approximately 5 minutes after starting your azure-pool you
should be able to see the number of submitted hashes slowly
@@ -352,9 +357,9 @@
less than 16 cores. Otherwise the hashrate per node might get so low
that Nicehash is banning individual nodes.</li>
<li><strong>You are mining to an internal wallet which is not part of
- the bitcoin-blockchain</strong>. Read the documentation to see the
- different options and fees to transfer your balance to a real
- bitcoin wallet. </li>
+ the bitcoin-blockchain</strong>. Read the <a href="https://www.nicehash.com/help/sellers">documentation</a>
+ to see the different options and fees to transfer your balance to a
+ real bitcoin wallet. </li>
</ul>
<strong></strong>
<h1>Important Notes: </h1>