Well I've been playing around with mining crypto currencies for a few days now, did some research going in, and as I wrote in yesterdays post stumbled upon Protoshares, developed by http://invictus-innovations.com/ their approach is rather ingenious from my perspective. After setting up a cpl dual core laptops to mine, I know the warnings. I was actually being able to see shares being credited to my account with http://ptsweb.beeeeer.org/ the pool I chose. It suddenly clicked and boy did I feel stupid when it did, people are not using their own machines to mine this. So I started to look at the virtual machines, cloud based computing for those of not up on the jargon. The idea is you rent processor power, memory, the whole nine from a one of the many cloud hosting companies. Once you set up your machine through their interface, and log into it, you can run the mining software remotely. As long as you are making more then the cost of hosting it's profitable. For testing, and learning I am using http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/ there are lower cost solutions, but Microsoft offers a $200 credit for a trial, and pay as you go programs so it's a safe test bed for a newbie like myself.
Setting up the server was a breeze as long as you choose an image from the library and go through the guided set up. I chose the newest linux, 4 cores, 7gigs. once it's deployed and running it's time to log in.
Logging in is simple, you need a terminal client, I downloaded http://www.putty.org/. From the management page copy the ssh details, and paste them into the putty. If all is well your on a terminal for your VM. Log in, this where I had to dig the memory banks a bit. It has been a long time since I was in front of a terminal needing to know command line functions. Even though I've been doing freelance low level tech work for years, very few people knowledgeable enough to use Linux need my help. Thanks to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=345386.0 to the folks on this forum for having the pieces there even if they were a bit scattered. I pieced together the commands to get the miner up and running.
Here is the list of commands I used,
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y git make g++ build-essential libminiupnpc-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libboost-all-dev libdb++-dev libgmp-dev libssl-dev dos2unix
sudo apt-get install build-essential libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-thread-dev zlib1g-dev yasm
git clone https://github.com/thbaumbach/ptsminer
cd ~/ptsminer/src
make -f makefile.unix
./ptsminer <your PTS number> <number of cores>
other then setting up the pts wallet to make sure you have a place for them to go that was it.
if this was of use to you consider a small gift
PTS# Pd7xb3Q4idGiGa1iMawVuAYx42WZch1KdG
or for BTC
Note it seems this works for intel based. so it will work on the the intel based clouds. I got one up on amd through another pool, will post the steps for that soon.
Thanks much
Jack
aka
PanseyBard
Setting up the server was a breeze as long as you choose an image from the library and go through the guided set up. I chose the newest linux, 4 cores, 7gigs. once it's deployed and running it's time to log in.
Logging in is simple, you need a terminal client, I downloaded http://www.putty.org/. From the management page copy the ssh details, and paste them into the putty. If all is well your on a terminal for your VM. Log in, this where I had to dig the memory banks a bit. It has been a long time since I was in front of a terminal needing to know command line functions. Even though I've been doing freelance low level tech work for years, very few people knowledgeable enough to use Linux need my help. Thanks to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=345386.0 to the folks on this forum for having the pieces there even if they were a bit scattered. I pieced together the commands to get the miner up and running.
Here is the list of commands I used,
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y git make g++ build-essential libminiupnpc-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libboost-all-dev libdb++-dev libgmp-dev libssl-dev dos2unix
sudo apt-get install build-essential libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-thread-dev zlib1g-dev yasm
git clone https://github.com/thbaumbach/ptsminer
cd ~/ptsminer/src
make -f makefile.unix
./ptsminer <your PTS number> <number of cores>
other then setting up the pts wallet to make sure you have a place for them to go that was it.
if this was of use to you consider a small gift
PTS# Pd7xb3Q4idGiGa1iMawVuAYx42WZch1KdG
or for BTC
Note it seems this works for intel based. so it will work on the the intel based clouds. I got one up on amd through another pool, will post the steps for that soon.
Thanks much
Jack
aka
PanseyBard
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