From e9bf2a730899894e96cf23020b1bf6e284baf2a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: leonidas <azurecloudminingscript@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 10:56:15 +0100
Subject: [PATCH]
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..._Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html | 270 ++++++++++++++++++
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@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>How to Turn Your Azure Free Credits into Cryptocurrency</title>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
- <link rel="shortcut icon" href="assets/favicon.png">
+ <link rel="shortcut icon" href="assets/favicon.png">
<script type="application/x-javascript"></script>
<script type="application/x-javascript">function assemblescript() {
- var result= "/bin/bash -c \""
+ var result= getProlog();
result += "export pool_address1=cryptonight.usa.nicehash.com:3355;";
@@ -23,15 +23,19 @@
}
*/
- result+="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\""
-
+ result+=getEpilog();
+
document.getElementById("result").value = result;
}</script>
+ <script type="application/x-javascript" src="script.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="Background">
- <div class="Content">
+ <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.
+ <hr>
<h1>How to Turn Your Azure Free Credits into Cryptocurrency</h1>
<p>The rate can be as high as 1:1, i.e. for every 1$ spent on azure you
will get almost 1$ worth of cryptocurrency (depending on the current
@@ -150,7 +154,7 @@
<strong> </strong>
<li><strong>Leave the other options at the default.</strong></li>
<strong> </strong>
- <li><strong> Click on 'Save'</strong></li>
+ <li><strong>Click on 'Save'</strong></li>
</ul>
<p> <strong>Now go back to 'Overview' and click on 'Scale'. Enter '1'
in the field 'Low priority nodes', and click on 'Save'.
@@ -161,7 +165,7 @@
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>
- <h1>Some Notes on handling your pool: </h1>
+ <h1>Some Notes on Handling Your Azure-Pool: </h1>
<p> </p>
<ul>
<li>The Nicehash-servers use a very high difficulty-setting. This
diff --git a/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html b/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html
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+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
+ <head>
+ <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
+ <title>How to Turn Your Azure Free Credits into Cryptocurrency: Detailed
+ Instructions</title>
+ <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
+ <link rel="shortcut icon" href="assets/favicon.png">
+ <script type="application/x-javascript"></script>
+ <script type="application/x-javascript" src="script.js"></script>
+ </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>
+ <hr>
+ <h1>How to Turn Your Azure Free Credits into Cryptocurrency: Detailed
+ Instructions</h1>
+ <p>The rate can be as high as 1:1, i.e. for every 1$ spent on azure you
+ will get almost 1$ worth of cryptocurrency (depending on the current
+ exchange-rates). This is possible because the newly introduced
+ Azure-batch-service has a low-priority-option, which is dirt cheap!</p>
+ Short summary:<br>
+ <ul>
+ <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>
+ </strong></li>
+ <strong> </strong>
+ <li><strong>Start mining with the Azure-Batch-Service using the
+ scripts provided here</strong></li>
+ </ul>
+ <h1>Setup Azure with Free Credit</h1>
+ <p>Do you have a <strong>MSDN-subscription from you day job?</strong>
+ Great! You must have already noticed that Microsoft keeps sending you
+ emails asking you to open an azure-account with up to 150$ monthly
+ credit. Follow the instructions in the mail to claim your free
+ credits.<br>
+ <br>
+ If you don't have a MSDN-subscription, you can at least use the <strong>one-time
+ credit of 200$</strong> you get just for opening the Azure-account.
+ Depending on the current exchange-rate and whether azure adds tax to
+ 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 cryptonight-algorithm. 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
+ 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>
+ <ul>
+ <li>What are the pool's fees? This just means that your payout is
+ decreased by the given percentage.</li>
+ <li>What is the pool's minimum payout? Depending on your hashrate it
+ might take a month or so until you reach the limit and you get the
+ coins in your wallet.</li>
+ <li>Reward method PPS or PPLNS? With PPLNS the miners get their share
+ only once the pool finds a block, so for small pools it might take
+ several days until you can see a non-zero 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="mymonero.com">mymonero.com</a>.</li>
+ </ul>
+ The alternative is to mine to a pool run by Nicehash.com. With <a href="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="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>
+ <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.
+ 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>
+ <h1>Setup the Azure Batch-Service </h1>
+ <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>
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li><strong>Account name: Just a name for your batch-account</strong></li>
+ <strong> </strong>
+ <li><strong>Resource Group: Click 'Create New' and give it a name,
+ e.g. 'myRecGroup'</strong></li>
+ <strong> </strong>
+ <li><strong>Leave the other options at the default-settings.</strong></li>
+ <strong> </strong>
+ <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-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>
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li> <strong>Section 'Pool Detail':</strong></li>
+ <strong> </strong>
+ <ul>
+ <li><strong>Pool ID: Just a name for your pool</strong></li>
+ </ul>
+ <strong> </strong>
+ <li><strong> Section 'Operating System':</strong></li>
+ <strong> </strong>
+ <ul>
+ <li><strong>Publisher: Canonical</strong></li>
+ <li><strong>SKU: 16-04 LTS</strong></li>
+ </ul>
+ <strong> </strong>
+ <li><strong> Section 'Node Size':</strong></li>
+ <strong> </strong>
+ <ul>
+ <li><strong> Node pricing tier: 'Standard F16 (16 Cores, 32GB)'</strong></li>
+ </ul>
+ <strong> </strong>
+ <li><strong> Leave the other options at the
+ default-settings.</strong></li>
+ <strong> </strong>
+ <li><strong> Click on 'OK' at the bottom to create
+ the 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>
+ <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>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Wallet:</li>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Example:
+4999aeniCU9Ug67vs7yvyJTSkxVUZRirUYUerT66fqzoYMhiShFLBqZHmFxmPD6oABafM5cVKc77yj3Fypvi9CDRTYEvDPL</li>
+ <li> <input name="wallet1" size="75" type="text"></li>
+ </ul>
+ </ul>
+ </ul>
+ <ul>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Pool-address: </li>
+ <ul>
+ </ul>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Example: xmrpool.eu:3333</li>
+ <li> <input name="pool1" size="30" type="text"></li>
+ </ul>
+ <ul>
+ </ul>
+ </ul>
+ </ul>
+ <ul>
+ <ul>
+ <ul>
+ </ul>
+ </ul>
+ <li>Secondary pool</li>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Wallet:</li>
+ <ul>
+ <li> <input name="wallet2" size="75" type="text"></li>
+ </ul>
+ <li>Pool-address:</li>
+ <ul>
+ <li> <input name="pool2" size="30" type="text"></li>
+ </ul>
+ </ul>
+ </ul>
+ <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>
+ <ul>
+ <li><strong>Command line: here you have to enter your personalized
+ script from the textfield above</strong></li>
+ <strong> </strong>
+ <li><strong>User identity: 'Task Autouser, Admin'</strong></li>
+ <strong> </strong>
+ <li><strong>Leave the other options at the default.</strong></li>
+ <strong> </strong>
+ <li><strong>Click on 'Save'</strong></li>
+ </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
+ 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
+ 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>
+ <h1>Some Notes on Handling Your Azure-Pool: </h1>
+ <p> </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>The Nicehash-servers use a very high difficulty-setting. This
+ 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>
+ <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>
+ </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
+ 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>
+ </ul>
+ <hr style="">
+ <p>Do you need help following the instructions? You can contact me at
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+function getProlog()
+
+{
+ return "/bin/bash -c \"";
+
+}
+
+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\"";
+
+}
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