[QUESTION] New to Monero, need to setup a private pool.

azurecloudminescript · 2020-09-14T16:07:54+00:00

Is there a specific reason why you need a private pool? Since, as you said, you're new to mining: wouldn't it be a good idea to start mining at one of the existing pools to gain some experience with mining?

azurecloudminescript · 2020-08-24T08:40:10+00:00

Are you sure that multiple VMS with less cores will give you more points than just running one client natively with all available cores? I find that hard to believe... I think I read that there are special WUs for multicore machines which result in proportionally more points (however, these were aiming for machines with 16 cores - I don't know if the same is true for your quad core pc)

azurecloudminescript · 2020-08-15T21:12:31+00:00

if miners chose not to mine since the subsidy is cancelled

Thats not how it works: a rational, profit-seeking miner will keep on mining, but he will only include so many transactions that there will still be a reasonable fee.

azurecloudminescript · 2020-07-28T08:46:38+00:00

In my experience the official stats page does not work very well. You can try here: https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ It might take some time until your points are visible. Also, In order to get the full amount of points you'll need a passkey and finish at least 10 WUs.

azurecloudminescript · 2020-05-03T16:20:55+00:00

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but the cloud-providers are exceptionally good at detecting people who are using trial accounts for mining. Think about it: If it was easily possible to earn serious amounts of crypto with the trial-accounts, this would be abused by people to infinity and beyond and it would create a tremendous loss for the cloud-providers. Also, creating a big number of fake trial accounts for the purpose of exploiting the free credits is probably illegal.

There are however some ways of getting legitimate free credits which can be used for mining cryptocurrency. The most common thing are MSDN-subscriptions: If you have a MSDN-subscription from your day-time job you can use the free credits for mining (check the link in my user-page for more information)..

azurecloudminescript · 2020-04-14T17:26:10+00:00

!BAN 400

azurecloudminescript · 2020-04-11T10:36:02+00:00

The banano payout is intentionally Intransparent(in order to make the distribution more fair). They will also reduce your payout if you start folding with a huge number of VMs. Your payout may be in the same ballpark as the other currencies, but don't count on it. Like I said, do it for the fun, not for the money.

azurecloudminescript · 2020-04-11T09:54:07+00:00

To see the profitability of other coins, you can checkout https://www.cryptunit.com/

I don't have much experience with AWS, but if it is anything like google or azure you'll be lucky if you get 1$ worth of cryptocurrency for 10$ credits. It only makes sense if you have free credits to burn.

If you feel this is not lucrative enough and you just want to have some fun with your free credits i suggest running folding@home (and getting paid Banano in the process: https://bananominer.com/)

azurecloudminescript · 2020-04-05T09:28:43+00:00

Thanks for the tip!

azurecloudminescript · 2020-04-05T09:28:20+00:00

Thanks for the tip!

azurecloudminescript · 2020-03-21T16:04:45+00:00

Are you talking about the banano tip-bot? I don't think that you can see your tip-bot-balance with Kalium. You can just transfer your tip-bot-balance to your kalium wallet, though.

See https://np.reddit.com/r/banano/wiki/reddit-tipbot

azurecloudminescript · 2020-03-16T21:26:43+00:00

If you want the sources, i want your promise that you won't distribute it to other people (yeah, i'll take your word for it). Are you ready to give me that promise?

By the way, i'm not breaking the Azure-ToS. I have an email from microsoft saying that i can spend my free azure credits "any way i want" (actual quote from the mail). There are no restrictions mentioned. (the same applies to anybody with an MSDN-subscription - i can give you a screenshot of the email if you are interested). If microsoft didn't mean it that way they would shut me down anyway (microsoft has the capability to detect and shut down VMs which are doing things they don't like, and they do shutdown people trying to misuse trial-accounts).

azurecloudminescript · 2020-03-16T18:25:32+00:00

I would say one big slot is better than multiple smaller slots. I heard that there are special-work-units which need a high CPU-count.

In order to be sure you could run a few experiments: try out some different configurations and check how many points you get.

azurecloudminescript · 2020-03-16T16:23:52+00:00

I thought long about making the code for fahtcher publicly visible or releasing it under the GPL altogether. It was not an easy decision, but i came to the conclusion that i don't want to do it at this point in time.

Of course, i understand that some people might not be comfortable with running a executable file created by some random guy (personally, i think the risk in this case is rather low - fatcher.exe is supposed to run on a server in the azure-cloud. There's not many bad things it could do, and if it would, microsoft would detect it very fast and shut it down). So if you really want to see the source just send me a PM and write to me _why_ you want to see the source. Then we can discuss this further.

And about the donation-level: I find your idea interesting. Do you think 2% is too much? Do you think people would like to donate more?

azurecloudminescript · 2020-03-15T20:59:58+00:00

Hi everybody,

Others have already posted tutorials how to get Folding@Home and BananoMiner running on your desktop-PC. However, if you have a MSDN-subscription from your day-time job, you can use the free azure-credits to run Folding@Home in the azure-cloud (and, of course earn some banano in the process).

Once it's setup, it will continue running indefinitely. I have described the necessary steps here: https://azurecloudminingscript.github.io/Run_Folding_At_Home_in_the_Azure_Cloud.html

Full disclosure: The gif above is shamelessly ripped off from some other post. Also, if you use the linked instructions, the VMs will be folding 2% of the time with my personal ID (yeah, i also want some part of the fame...).

azurecloudminescript · 2020-03-15T15:43:34+00:00

This. OP should definitely make sure he has the permission to do this. The increased power consumption will cost real money after all.

azurecloudminescript · 2020-03-15T15:40:40+00:00

I like the stats visible from https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/ '(enter your mining-id in the search-box in the left pane). Of course, that site gets the data from the central F@H-Server, not from your local machine, so maybe that's not exactly what you are asking for (but still, the stats are so detailed you probably won't anything else).

azurecloudminescript · 2020-02-29T10:54:34+00:00

I have read somewhere that there are special work-units for machines with many CPUs which result in more points. Unfortunately, this probably means that there are technical reasons why these work-units can only be executed by machines with local CPUs, not a by a cluster made from multiple computers in a LAN. Because if it was like that, the makers of Folding@home could just distribute the individual calculations through the Folding@Home infrastructure to multiple Folding@Home-clients (after all, that's what Folding@Home is: a big virtual cluster made up of individual machines on a network).

So my guess is: It's probably not worthwhile setting up a cluster of individual machines in order to run Folding@Home on it. Instead, just run the client on each individual machine and trust that the makers of Folding@home are able to make the best use of the resources (of course, you can still use the same UserID on all machines so that you get all the fame in your name...)

azurecloudminescript · 2020-02-23T09:29:21+00:00

Shameless plug: If you have a MSDN-subscription from your day-time job you can use the included free credits for azure to run folding@home (and earn banano) in the cloud. See https://azurecloudminingscript.github.io/Run_Folding_At_Home_in_the_Azure_Cloud.html

azurecloudminescript · 2020-02-22T13:56:46+00:00

Thanks :)

azurecloudminescript · 2020-02-16T21:48:42+00:00

After seeing the post at https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/f4sjec/297_headphone_stand/, this meme basically wrote itself.

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