From b01daa9090cedc4b0b5937bc22971477fe7be2ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: leonidas <azurecloudminingscript@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 12:19:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH]
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...zure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html | 40 +++----
..._Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html | 102 ++++++++++--------
2 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html
index 3f30f4d..b84fe67 100644
--- a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html
+++ b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
operating on a razor-thin margin!</p>
<h1>Setup Nicehash.com account</h1>
<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=960&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 profit when mining with 16 cores (app.
+ you can see the estimated daily income when mining with 16 cores (app.
yield: 960H/s) in the azure cloud → look at the
"Nicehash-CryptoNight"-entry. It might not sound like much at first,
but once you set it up it's free money :-)<br>
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
<li> <strong>Section 'Pool Detail':</strong></li>
<strong> </strong>
<ul>
- <li><strong>Pool ID: Just a name for your pool</strong></li>
+ <li><strong>Pool ID: Just a name for your azure-pool</strong></li>
</ul>
<strong> </strong>
<li><strong> Section 'Operating System':</strong></li>
@@ -126,9 +126,9 @@
default-settings.</strong></li>
<strong> </strong>
<li><strong> Click on 'OK' at the bottom to create
- the pool</strong>.</li>
+ the azure-pool</strong>.</li>
</ul>
- <p> Whenever the computers in your pool get started up, they will
+ <p> Whenever the computers in your azure-pool get started up, they will
execute a custom script which will download the mining-executable and
start mining. <strong>Enter your Nicehash.com mining address here and
click on the button to generate your personalized startup-script</strong>
@@ -140,11 +140,11 @@
script!</button><br>
<p>This is your personalized script:</p>
<textarea name="result" cols="100" rows="5" id="result"></textarea>
- <p>(Note that the scripts and the miner-executable are hosted on
- github.com - you can check out the code yourself if you have any
- doubts about the function of the script)</p>
- <p>Once the pool is created, go to <strong>'Start task'</strong>. Fill
- the form with the following information:<br>
+ <p>(Note that the scripts and the miner-executable are hosted on <a href="https://github.com/azurecloudminingscript/azure-cloud-mining-script">github.com</a>
+ - you can check out the code yourself if you have any doubts about the
+ function of the script)</p>
+ <p>Once the azure-pool is created, go to <strong>'Start task'</strong>.
+ Fill the form with the following information:<br>
</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Command line: here you have to enter your personalized
@@ -159,12 +159,12 @@
<p> <strong>Now go back to 'Overview' and click on 'Scale'. Enter '1'
in the field 'Low priority nodes', and click on 'Save'.
Congratulations! The azure cloud is now mining bitcoin for you!</strong></p>
- <p>To stop your pool, go to the overview-page of the pool, select
- 'Scale' and enter '0' as the number of 'Low priority nodes'. Then
- click 'Save'. <strong>Note that by default your pool will
+ <p>To stop your azure-pool, go to the overview-page of the azure-pool,
+ select 'Scale' and enter '0' as the number of 'Low priority nodes'.
+ Then click 'Save'. <strong>Note that by default your azure-pool will
automatically stop when your free credits are exhausted</strong>.
- You can simply restart your pool in the next month once your free
- credits have been refilled. </p>
+ You can simply restart your azure-pool in the next month once your
+ free credits have been refilled. </p>
<h1>Some Notes on Handling Your Azure-Pool: </h1>
<p> </p>
<ul>
@@ -172,9 +172,9 @@
means:</li>
<ul>
<li>While your miner will be visible a few minutes after starting up
- the pool, it will show up with a hash-rate of 0. <strong>You have
- to let your pool run for one hour or so to get meaningful
- statistics on the Nicehash.com website.</strong></li>
+ the azure-pool, it will show up with a hash-rate of 0. <strong>You
+ have to let your azure-pool run for one hour or so to get
+ meaningful statistics on the Nicehash.com website.</strong></li>
<li>I do not recommend mining to Nicehash.com with nodes which have
less than 16 cores. Otherwise the hashrate per node might get so
low that Nicehash is banning individual nodes.</li>
@@ -185,9 +185,9 @@
support. I recommend not asking for more than 20 cores. We are
operating in some kind of gray area here, you don't want to cause a
big stir...<strong> If you want to mine with more than 20 cores i
- recommend setting up more pools in other regions</strong> (the
- quota limits only the number of cores per region, nothings stops you
- from setting up more pools in other regions).</li>
+ 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>
</ul>
<hr>
<p>Do you need help following the instructions? You can contact me at
diff --git a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html
index f64801a..4ec6d34 100644
--- a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html
+++ b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html
@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@
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 cryptonight-algorithm. The
- cryptonight-algorithm can be efficiently run on standard server
+ 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
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
@@ -78,19 +78,24 @@
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="nicehash.com/register">Nicehash.com/register</a>.</strong>
<p>It's good practice to setup a secondary pool, in case the primary
- pool is offline. Personally i use Nicehash as a primary pool and <a href="https://web.xmrpool.eu/">xmrpool.eu</a>
- as a secondary pool. </p>
+ 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=960&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 profit when mining with 16 cores (app.
+ you can see the estimated daily income when mining with 16 cores (app.
yield: 960H/s) 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
- hacks - even Nicehash.com was hacked once. The more cryptocurrency you
- accumulate, the more important it gets to educate yourself about the
- possible security threats!</p>
+ hacks - even Nicehash.com was hacked once. <strong>The more
+ cryptocurrency you accumulate, the more important it gets to educate
+ yourself about the possible security threats!</strong></p>
<h1>Setup the Azure Batch-Service </h1>
+ <p>Note: Azure calls a group of virtual machines within the
+ batch-service a 'Pool'. This has nothing to do with the term
+ 'mining-pool' (operated by e.g. xmrpool.eu). Don't confuse the two
+ terms.</p>
<p>After signing up for your azure-account you can click on the
following link to create a <strong>new batch-account</strong>: <a href="https://portal.azure.com/#create/Microsoft.BatchAccount">https://portal.azure.com/#create/Microsoft.BatchAccount</a>
Fill the form with following information:<br>
@@ -115,7 +120,7 @@
<li> <strong>Section 'Pool Detail':</strong></li>
<strong> </strong>
<ul>
- <li><strong>Pool ID: Just a name for your pool</strong></li>
+ <li><strong>Pool ID: Just a name for your azure-pool</strong></li>
</ul>
<strong> </strong>
<li><strong> Section 'Operating System':</strong></li>
@@ -135,43 +140,44 @@
default-settings.</strong></li>
<strong> </strong>
<li><strong> Click on 'OK' at the bottom to create
- the pool</strong>.</li>
+ the azure-pool</strong>.</li>
</ul>
<p>For mining you generally want to use the 'F'-Type of virtual machines
because they are optimized for computing and most profitable for
mining. If you are mining to a Nicehash-pool i recommend leaving the
node-size at 16 cores (see also my notes on the Nicehash-difficulty at
- the end of this page). If you are mining to a different pool you can
- also choose e.g. F4 and set the number of nodes to 5 to get a total of
- 20 cores (the default maximum quota for the number of low-priority
- cores). Note that by default azure will disable your account for the
- rest of the month once you have consumed your free credits. So you
- could also use the F1-node-size and adjust the number of nodes so that
- the monthly cost stays just under your monthly free credits. This way
- the cryptocurrency will just keep flowing indefinitely without you
- needing to log into your azure account ever again!</p>
+ the end of this page). If you are mining to a different mining-pool
+ you can also choose e.g. F4 and set the number of nodes to 5 to get a
+ total of 20 cores (the default maximum quota for the number of
+ low-priority cores). Note that by default azure will disable your
+ account for the rest of the month once you have consumed your free
+ credits. So you could also use the F1-node-size and adjust the number
+ of nodes so that the monthly cost stays just under your monthly free
+ credits. This way the cryptocurrency will just keep flowing
+ indefinitely without you needing to log into your azure account ever
+ again!</p>
<p>In order to make the nodes actually do something, you'll need a
startup script which downloads the mining-executable and starts
mining. You can create your personalized script here by filling out
the fields:</p>
<ul>
- <li>Primary pool</li>
+ <li>Primary mining-pool.</li>
<ul>
<li>Wallet:</li>
<ul>
- <li>Example:
-4999aeniCU9Ug67vs7yvyJTSkxVUZRirUYUerT66fqzoYMhiShFLBqZHmFxmPD6oABafM5cVKc77yj3Fypvi9CDRTYEvDPL</li>
+ <li>e.g. your personal Nicehash-wallet, it should look like this:
+ <strong>3FZd4cJi7E75haNcUM5ASx6x1k1DRWWjBZ</strong></li>
<li> <input name="wallet1" size="75" type="text"></li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<ul>
- <li>Pool-address: </li>
+ <li>Mining-pool-address: </li>
<ul>
</ul>
<ul>
- <li>Example: xmrpool.eu:3333</li>
+ <li>e.g. the nicehash pool-server: <strong>cryptonight.eu.nicehash.com:3355</strong></li>
<li> <input name="pool1" size="30" type="text"></li>
</ul>
<ul>
@@ -183,13 +189,21 @@
<ul>
</ul>
</ul>
- <li>Secondary pool</li>
+ <li>Secondary mining-pool. This pool will only be used if the primary
+ mining-pool is offline. Leave the fields empty if you don't want to
+ use a secondary mining-pool.</li>
<ul>
<li>Wallet:</li>
+ <ul>
+ <li>e.g. your personal Monero-wallet, it should look like this: <strong>4999aeniCU9Ug67vs7yvyJTSkxVUZRirUYUerT66fqzoYMhiShFLBqZHmFxmPD6oABafM5cVKc77yj3Fypvi9CDRTYEvDPL</strong></li>
+ </ul>
<ul>
<li> <input name="wallet2" size="75" type="text"></li>
</ul>
- <li>Pool-address:</li>
+ <li>Mining-pool-address:</li>
+ <ul>
+ <li>e.g. a Monero mining-pool: <strong>xmrpool.eu:3333</strong></li>
+ </ul>
<ul>
<li> <input name="pool2" size="30" type="text"></li>
</ul>
@@ -198,11 +212,11 @@
<input name="Generate script!" value="Generate script!" type="button">
<p>This is your personalized script:</p>
<textarea name="result" cols="100" rows="5" id="result"></textarea>
- <p>(Note that the scripts and the miner-executable are hosted on
- github.com - you can check out the code yourself if you have any
- doubts about the function of the script)</p>
- <p>Once the pool is created, go to <strong>'Start task'</strong>. Fill
- the form with the following information:<br>
+ <p>(Note that the scripts and the miner-executable are hosted on <a href="https://github.com/azurecloudminingscript/azure-cloud-mining-script">github.com</a>
+ - you can check out the code yourself if you have any doubts about the
+ function of the script)</p>
+ <p>Once the azure-pool is created, go to <strong>'Start task'</strong>.
+ Fill the form with the following information:<br>
</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Command line: here you have to enter your personalized
@@ -216,15 +230,15 @@
</ul>
<p> <strong>Now go back to 'Overview' and click on 'Scale'. Enter '1'
in the field 'Low priority nodes', and click on 'Save'. </strong>This
- will start one node in your pool. You can also start a higher number
- of nodes, just note that by default you have a limit of 20
+ will start one node in your azure-pool. You can also start a higher
+ number of nodes, just note that by default you have a limit of 20
low-priority-cores per region.</p>
- <p>To stop your pool, go to the overview-page of the pool, select
- 'Scale' and enter '0' as the number of 'Low priority nodes'. Then
- click 'Save'. <strong>Note that by default your pool will
+ <p>To stop your azure-pool, go to the overview-page of the azure-pool,
+ select 'Scale' and enter '0' as the number of 'Low priority nodes'.
+ Then click 'Save'. <strong>Note that by default your azure-pool will
automatically stop when your free credits are exhausted</strong>.
- You can simply restart your pool in the next month once your free
- credits have been refilled. </p>
+ You can simply restart your azure-pool in the next month once your
+ free credits have been refilled. </p>
<h1>Some Notes on Handling Your Azure-Pool: </h1>
<p> </p>
<ul>
@@ -232,9 +246,9 @@
means:</li>
<ul>
<li>While your miner will be visible a few minutes after starting up
- the pool, it will show up with a hash-rate of 0. <strong>You have
- to let your pool run for one hour or so to get meaningful
- statistics on the Nicehash.com website.</strong></li>
+ the azure-pool, it will show up with a hash-rate of 0. <strong>You
+ have to let your azure-pool run for one hour or so to get
+ meaningful statistics on the Nicehash.com website.</strong></li>
<li>I do not recommend mining to Nicehash.com with nodes which have
less than 16 cores. Otherwise the hashrate per node might get so
low that Nicehash is banning individual nodes.</li>
@@ -245,9 +259,9 @@
support. I recommend not asking for more than 20 cores. We are
operating in some kind of gray area here, you don't want to cause a
big stir...<strong> If you want to mine with more than 20 cores i
- recommend setting up more pools in other regions</strong> (the
- quota limits only the number of cores per region, nothings stops you
- from setting up more pools in other regions).</li>
+ 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>
</ul>
<hr style="">
<p>Do you need help following the instructions? You can contact me at
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