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<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
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<strong> </strong>
<li><strong>Leave the other options at the default.</strong></li>
<strong> </strong>
<li><strong>&nbsp;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'.
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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
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<title>How to Turn Your Azure Free Credits into Cryptocurrency: Detailed
Instructions</title>
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<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&amp;adapt_q_280x=0&amp;adapt_q_380=0&amp;adapt_q_fury=0&amp;adapt_q_470=0&amp;adapt_q_480=3&amp;adapt_q_570=0&amp;adapt_q_580=0&amp;adapt_q_vega56=0&amp;adapt_q_vega64=0&amp;adapt_q_750Ti=0&amp;adapt_q_1050Ti=0&amp;adapt_q_10606=0&amp;adapt_q_1070=0&amp;adapt_q_1070Ti=0&amp;adapt_q_1080=0&amp;adapt_q_1080Ti=0&amp;factor%5Beth_hr%5D=100.0&amp;factor%5Beth_p%5D=405.0&amp;factor%5Bgro_hr%5D=63.9&amp;factor%5Bgro_p%5D=450.0&amp;factor%5Bx11g_hr%5D=20.1&amp;factor%5Bx11g_p%5D=420.0&amp;cn=true&amp;factor%5Bcn_hr%5D=960&amp;factor%5Bcn_p%5D=330.0&amp;factor%5Beq_hr%5D=870.0&amp;factor%5Beq_p%5D=360.0&amp;factor%5Blrev2_hr%5D=14700.0&amp;factor%5Blrev2_p%5D=390.0&amp;factor%5Bns_hr%5D=1950.0&amp;factor%5Bns_p%5D=450.0&amp;factor%5Blbry_hr%5D=315.0&amp;factor%5Blbry_p%5D=525.0&amp;factor%5Bbk2b_hr%5D=3450.0&amp;factor%5Bbk2b_p%5D=630.0&amp;factor%5Bbk14_hr%5D=5910.0&amp;factor%5Bbk14_p%5D=570.0&amp;factor%5Bpas_hr%5D=2100.0&amp;factor%5Bpas_p%5D=405.0&amp;factor%5Bskh_hr%5D=54.0&amp;factor%5Bskh_p%5D=345.0&amp;factor%5Bn5_hr%5D=57.0&amp;factor%5Bn5_p%5D=345.0&amp;factor%5Bl2z_hr%5D=420.0&amp;factor%5Bl2z_p%5D=300.0&amp;factor%5Bcost%5D=0.0&amp;sort=Profitability24&amp;volume=0&amp;revenue=24h&amp;factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=&amp;factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=abucoins&amp;factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=bitfinex&amp;factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=bittrex&amp;factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=cryptopia&amp;factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=hitbtc&amp;factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=poloniex&amp;factor%5Bexchanges%5D%5B%5D=yobit&amp;dataset=Main&amp;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&nbsp; → 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> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <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> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Section 'Node Size':</strong></li>
<strong> </strong>
<ul>
<li><strong>&nbsp;Node pricing tier: 'Standard F16 (16 Cores, 32GB)'</strong></li>
</ul>
<strong> </strong>
<li><strong> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Leave the other options at the
default-settings.</strong></li>
<strong> </strong>
<li><strong> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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>&nbsp;<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>&nbsp;<input name="wallet2" size="75" type="text"></li>
</ul>
<li>Pool-address:</li>
<ul>
<li>&nbsp;<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&nbsp; - 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>
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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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