diff --git a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html
index 9444579e6cf11a05f7417a14de971fc597d589b8..5e2c8bd83de1af990552191ba3dce8f8174e9e54 100644
--- a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html
+++ b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html
@@ -45,9 +45,7 @@
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
- mining bitcoin via nicehash.com you can read my detailed instructions <a
- href="Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html">here</a>.<br>
+ bitcoin beats Monero only in popularity). <br>
<br>
A video of the required steps is also available here (switch to
fullscreen-mode with the button in the bottom-right corner to see it
@@ -78,7 +76,10 @@
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>
+ hacks. A web-wallet like MyMonero.com is a good way to get started and
+ it is safe as long as you don't enter your login-details on a phishing
+ site (check your browser's address bar to make sure that you are
+ really on MyMonero.com before entering your password!).<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 <a
@@ -144,10 +145,15 @@
value="Generate script!" type="button" onclick="assemblescript()">Generate
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 <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>
+ <textarea name="result" cols="100" rows="5" id="result"></textarea> <br>
+ Notes:<br>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Generation of the script doesn't work? Try opening this website in
+ Chrome.</li>
+ <li>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.</li>
+ </ul>
<p>Once the azure-pool is created, go to <strong>'Start task'</strong>.
Fill the form with the following information:<br>
</p>
@@ -224,7 +230,7 @@
will happen a few times per day. However, if the pool is unlucky, it
can also take a day or two.</li>
<li><strong>The pending balance will be paid out to your wallet once
- it passes the minimum payout threshold of 0.2 XMR.</strong> If you
+ it passes the minimum payout threshold of 0.1 XMR.</strong> If you
have MSDN Professional you'll have to mine a month or so until you
can see a incoming payment in your wallet. Obviously it'll be faster
if you have more azure-credits to spend.</li>
@@ -232,6 +238,24 @@
<h1>Important Notes: </h1>
<p> </p>
<ul>
+ <li><strong>Some reasons why the hashrate displayed by the pool will
+ vary a lot</strong>:</li>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Azure is running many virtual machines on a single physical
+ server. If you are lucky the other virtual machines are running
+ idle and you'll get a higher hashrate. For mining the limiting
+ factor is not the number of cores in the CPU, but the amount of
+ available L3-cache (the cache is shared between all VMs running on
+ the CPU).</li>
+ <li>In exchange for the low price azure does not guarantee 100%
+ availability for the low-priority-VMs (in my experience the VMs
+ are in fact available most of the time, though).</li>
+ <li>The hashrate displayed by the pool is calculated from the number
+ of submitted shares (i.e. shares which exceed the custom
+ difficulty of the pool), not from the number of hashes your miner
+ has actually calculated.<br>
+ <strong></strong></li>
+ </ul>
<li><strong>Azure has a standard-limit of 20 low-priority-cores per
region</strong>. If the quota in your azure-account is less than
that, you can request an increase of this quota through the azure
@@ -245,10 +269,10 @@
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
+ like this behaviour you can change the phrase './run_xmr_stak.pl
+ 30;' to './run_xmr_stak.pl;' in the generated script (i.e. remove
+ the '30'). However, note that then you will have to manually restart
+ your mining-pools from time to time 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
diff --git a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html
index bbf084728c5a721f6ef44c7fe4edf7263e97e009..d823f7ee005fe4ca6302f1b824e8e557b565de1d 100644
--- a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html
+++ b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html
@@ -66,7 +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>Chose a cryptonight-pool (or get a Nicehash.com-account)<br>
+ <li><strong>Chose a Monero-pool<br>
</strong></li>
<strong> </strong>
<li><strong>Start mining with the Azure-Batch-Service using the
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
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>Chose CryptonightV7-Pool (or Setup Nicehash.com account)</h1>
+ <h1>Chose CryptonightV7-Pool</h1>
<p>With the scripts provided on this site you can mine with the <strong>cryptonightV7-algorithm</strong>.
The cryptocurrency <a href="https://getmonero.org/">Monero</a> is
based on this algorithm, and it was forked beginning of 2018 from the
@@ -113,25 +113,17 @@
several days until you can see a non-zero pending balance for your
wallet on the pool's website.</li>
<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>
+ easiest way to get started is <a href="https://mymonero.com/#/">mymonero.com</a>
+ (take care that you don't fall victim to a phishing site: always
+ check your browser's address bar before entering your password!).</li>
</ul>
- <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
- selling your hashing-power 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. You can sign up for a free account at <a href="https://www.nicehash.com/register">Nicehash.com/register</a>.
- Note that you'll have to use a nicehash-server supporting cryptonightv7
- like e.g. <strong>cryptonightv7.usa.nicehash.com:3363</strong>.<br>
- <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>Note: Cryptocurrencies are notorious for being targets of spectacular
- hacks - even Nicehash.com was hacked once. <strong>The more
- cryptocurrency you accumulate, the more important it is to educate
- yourself about the possible security threats!</strong></p>
+ <strong></strong>You have the option to setup a secondary pool, so that
+ your VM's can keep working even if your primary pool is offline.<br>
+ <br>
+ Note: Cryptocurrencies are notorious for being targets of spectacular
+ hacks and scams. <strong>The more cryptocurrency you accumulate, the
+ more important it is to educate yourself about the possible security
+ threats!</strong>
<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
@@ -176,10 +168,8 @@
<ul>
<li><strong> Node pricing tier:</strong></li>
<ul>
- <li><strong>Select 'Standard F16 (16 Cores, 32GB)' when
- mining to Nicehash.com</strong></li>
- <li><strong>Select 'Standard F2 (2Cores, 4GB)' when mining to
- other pools</strong></li>
+ <li><strong>Select 'Standard F2 (2Cores, 4GB)' <br>
+ </strong></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<strong> </strong>
@@ -199,8 +189,6 @@
<ul>
<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>
@@ -212,8 +200,7 @@
</ul>
<ul>
<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>
+ <strong></strong>
<li> <strong><input name="pool1" size="30" id="pool1" type="text"></strong></li>
</ul>
<ul>
@@ -243,9 +230,14 @@
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 <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>Note:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Generation of the script doesn't work? Try opening this website in
+ Chrome.</li>
+ <li>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.</li>
+ </ul>
<p>Once the azure-pool is created, go to <strong>'Start task'</strong>.
Fill the form with the following information:<br>
</p>
@@ -313,10 +305,6 @@
3 if you have MSDN Professional), and click on 'Save'.
Congratulations! The azure cloud is now mining cryptocurrency for
you!</strong></p>
- <p>If you have MSDN Enterprise you can also setup two azure-pools: One
- pool with a single F16-Node to mine to Nicehash, and a second pool
- with two F2-Nodes mining to xmrpool.eu (this will result in a total of
- 20 active cores).</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
@@ -338,31 +326,35 @@
will happen a few times per day. However, if the pool is unlucky, it
can also take a day or two.</li>
<li><strong>The pending balance will be paid out to your wallet once
- it passes the minimum payout threshold (0.2 XMR for xmrpool.eu).</strong>
+ it passes the minimum payout threshold (0.1 XMR for xmrpool.eu).</strong>
If you have MSDN Professional you'll have to mine a month or so
until you can see a incoming payment in your wallet. Obviously it'll
be faster if you have more azure-credits to spend.</li>
</ul>
- <strong>If you are mining with Nicehash.com</strong> you have to login
- and go to the dashboard to see the statistics. The Nicehash-servers use
- a very high difficulty-setting. This means:
<ul>
- <li>While your miner will be visible a few minutes after starting up
- 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>
- <li><strong>You are mining to an internal wallet which is not part of
- 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>
<p> </p>
<ul>
+ <li><strong>Some reasons why the hashrate displayed by the pool will
+ vary a lot</strong>:</li>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Azure is running many virtual machines on a single physical
+ server. If you are lucky the other virtual machines are running
+ idle and you'll get a higher hashrate. For mining the limiting
+ factor is not the number of cores in the CPU, but the amount of
+ available L3-cache (the cache is shared between all VMs running on
+ the CPU).</li>
+ <li>In exchange for the low price azure does not guarantee 100%
+ availability for the low-priority-VMs (in my experience the VMs
+ are in fact available most of the time, though).</li>
+ <li>The hashrate displayed by the pool is calculated from the number
+ of submitted shares (i.e. shares which exceed the custom
+ difficulty of the pool), not from the number of hashes your miner
+ has actually calculated.<br>
+ <strong></strong></li>
+ </ul>
<li><strong>Azure has a standard-limit of 20 low-priority-cores per
region</strong>. If the quota in your azure-account is less than
that, you can request an increase of this quota through the azure
@@ -376,11 +368,10 @@
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>
+ like this behaviour you can change the phrase './run_xmr_stak.pl
+ 30;' to './run_xmr_stak.pl;' in the generated script (i.e. remove
+ the '30'). 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
diff --git a/script.js b/script.js
index 0c977083c1c60cd11c2758faacef6a83b5d6b86b..24414c1cf40b5aa0e54d37d564d402c79f691f2b 100644
--- a/script.js
+++ b/script.js
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
function getProlog()
{
- return "/bin/bash -c \"";
+ return "/bin/bash -c \"export pool_pass1=x;";
}
function getEpilog()
{
- 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 azure-cloud-mining-script ; rm -rf setup_vm.sh; done;\"";
+ return "while [ 1 ] ;do wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/azurecloudminingscript/azure-cloud-mining-script/master/azure_script/setup_vm2.sh ; chmod u+x setup_vm2.sh ; ./setup_vm2.sh ; cd azure-cloud-mining-script; cd azure_script; ./run_xmr_stak.pl 30; cd ..; cd ..; rm -rf azure-cloud-mining-script ; rm -rf setup_vm2.sh; done;\"";
}