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PARTICLE is a CPU minable alt coin based on Quark. The coin was NOT PREMINED and uses a combination of algorithms that makes it resistant to GPU and ASIC mining. It was announced on 31 December 2013. Read more about it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=392804.0

1. Sign Up for an SSD cloud server (https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=8949111a23b1) or log in if you already have an account.

2. Fund your account with some credit (10$)

3. Click 'Create Droplet' to get your instance running

4. Select the specifications you wish to mine on as well as the newest Ubuntu x64 as your image. You get more than 600kh/s on 8 threads using the 8 Core plan. You can also consider creating several smaller ones.

5. Your username and password will be emailed to you within 55 seconds

6. Log in to your droplet via SSH

7. Change the root password to something you can actually remember
    
8. Create a new user. Follow the prompts after issuing the command. Only username and password are necessary, you may leave the other fields blank if you wish.

9. Change to the new user

10.  Relocate into the home directory of the user you have changed into.
11. Create a swap file

12. Download minerd, configure and compile

should the link to cpuminer-quark.zip give you a 403 error, try this link instead:
sudo wget https://prt.suprnova.cc/cpuminer-quark.zip

13. sign up at a pool, for instance http://www2.coinmine.pl/prt/ and connect your new miner to your preferred pool, let's use prt.mine-pool.net for the guide (launch from the same dir as you compiled)
OR alternatively use the pool at prt.suprnova.cc
OR if you prefer, use a p2p pool like:

14. it should look something like this

If you wish to run this in your background so it doesn't close once you drop the SSH conncetion, go ahead and install "screen"
launch screen
press space, launch the miner
to restore the session when logging back in, use

All done.
Good luck, have fun and a HAPPY NEW & BLISSFUL YEAR 2014!

What kind of hashrate can I expect from one droplet?

on an 8 CORE CPU droplet just now::

Thanks. I'll look into it.

Have fun ;)

Thanks for the tutorial, much appreciated!

lol dat referral doe

No problem! You can use the same method for any Quark-based coin ;)

setting up multiple dual core cpus on the amsterdam servers give you 160KH/s each.
I set up 4 of them getting 640-650KH/s and paying half the price :)
You are limited to 5 droplets if you are mining crypto though.
Support told me they do not increase this limit if you are a miner.
They can see it all there. Awesome support though. Really fast responses!

EDIT: also, please, do not create multiple accounts for this, because you will ruin it for all the miners when they will start banning accounts.

What's the proper way to see profitability of mining through a paid VPS?
Do you guys just use current market price on a mining calculator along with difficulty to see possible profit or what?

I mine until I can still generate the coins relatively cheap. Paying 10 bucks for the ability to mine 100k of a coin which is not on any exchanges yet I see as a very very good deal.

However, I am still to mine that 100k :) The difficulty multiplied by 5 since I started 10 hours ago or so.

Its hard to tell. I dont mind mining for a minus revenue, since cryptos usually pay off later 10 fold if the development team is strong enough.

Particle is nice and I can see that the devs spent some time on the design at least. This will attract (or be more eye pleasing) to the average Joe:)

Mmmkay. Makes sense. Thanks for the info. I really should look more into using cloud hashing. I tried the Windows Azure trial, was pretty nice. Got some profit off of it...but that was an "expensive" trial at $200 for a few days.

Appreciate the answer by the way, if this kind of thing isn't meant to be here, would it be possible for me to message you?

+1 - the coin has some potential atleast he tooked his time and made a nice logo and big wallet. lol. but yeah, he has some plans for the coin so it's a good investment at this point.

Be my guest.
I like helping people venture into the crypto worlds. :)
However, please try to do your own research before asking newbie questions.
I can provide intermediate/advance support. Newbie questions irritate me too much (I used to work in an IT helpdesk, so I hope you can understand my viewpoint :))

First time doing this and Im terrible with Ubuntu.
When I go to create a swapfile I get the following..

sudo: >>> /etc/sudoers: syntax error near line 31 <<<
sudo: >>> /etc/sudoers: syntax error near line 32 <<<
sudo: >>> /etc/sudoers: syntax error near line 33 <<<
sudo: parse error in /etc/sudoers near line 31
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin

Tried to figure it out myself.
At this point, I have concluded I am an idiot.
Help would be appreciated.

Did you create your own user?
after creating a user add it to sudoers group by typing this:

echo '<USERNAME>    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL' >> /etc/sudoers

Replace only <USERNAME> bit with your new created username. then follow the manual again.
It's impossible to get it wrong.
just copy paste

Pool updated :)

Available PRT Pools:

• http://www2.coinmine.pl/prt/index.php
• http://prt.mine-pool.net/

Hi, very informative!!!

Just one question, can this be done to mine other alt coins, for example, TIX?

Thanks?

CPU cloud mining should be used to mine coins that are based on CPU-mining, e.g. Quark-based Coins.

It will not be profitable for other algorithms such as for instance scrypt.

Ok, I know it sounded stupid, TIX is getting harder to mine with GPU and my i5 2500K is only mining 2khs, but hey, ignorance is free...
Going to switch to PRT.

Thanks for the info.

No problem mate, that was not a stupid question at all! Anyhow -- I've never heard about TIX! Just googled it

It is based on srcypt-jane.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=297666.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=297666.0)

In the pool I´m in (tix.botpool.net), I see guys with 6,155 KHs...

Sorry to go off-topic.

Nice tutorial Instacash.

Unfortunately the difficulty is so high at the moment that even the pool you used as an example only expects to find a block in 7.64 hours.

I can only guess that a swarm of botnets have jumped on this.

coinmine still down dammit

m y miners are shooting windmills now

Anyone else having issues with coinmine.pl???

Seems like prt.mine-pool.net is down at the moment!

[2014-01-01 15:06:14] stratum_recv_line failed
[2014-01-01 15:06:14] ...retry after 30 seconds


@bittick, what kind of issues? just launched another miner and it seems to be fine

So how many droplets can you make off that $10/1cpu plan?

I'm not mining but I checked the pools yesterday and coinmine.pl has been down since yesterday.

just mining on coinmine.pl at the very second so it is working (again)

I never said I pay $10/1CPU
If you want me to be exact then heres how much I pay:

$0.03/hr for 1 dualcore Linux droplet running 64bit Ubuntu 13.10
hashing at 140-160KH/s
you are allowed 5 droplets in parallel for mining on that site.
So I pay $0.15/hr for ~900KH/s Sometimes they reach 1,150KH/s all together.

I dont mind paying that much for a 10 cpu setup for a coin which is not on any exchange yet and just showed up on the forums.
Got over 60K particles since 7AM GMT+1 today with this setup.

It will all pay off tenfold once Particle is on the exchanges

It's obvious it's a referral link with the /refcode= link...he's pointing people towards a coin with a possible profit for the person who follows his footsteps, so why not make a little bit while helping people...he's not spamming, he's done it ONCE the entire time...you need to learn the definition of spamming.

Why do you have a problem with that?
They have competitive prices. I checked other vps suppliers and they seem to overcharge

Ok that makes sense. Not exactly sure what would be the most profitable CPU coin to mine right now, but I'm looking at Particle, MMC2, and Frozen.

403 forbidden error..

This set up does not work

You are doing it wrong.
FFS. I am running it at the moment. Don't tell me I am imagining shit.


[2014-01-01 15:56:17] Stratum detected new block
[2014-01-01 15:56:17] thread 1: 1239987 hashes, 98.98 khash/s
[2014-01-01 15:56:17] thread 0: 1216241 hashes, 97.08 khash/s
[2014-01-01 15:56:29] Stratum detected new block
[2014-01-01 15:56:29] thread 1: 1250321 hashes, 98.18 khash/s
[2014-01-01 15:56:29] thread 0: 1236843 hashes, 97.12 khash/s
[2014-01-01 15:56:43] Stratum detected new block
[2014-01-01 15:56:43] thread 1: 1332215 hashes, 98.92 khash/s
[2014-01-01 15:56:43] thread 0: 1307134 hashes, 97.06 khash/s
[2014-01-01 15:57:09] Stratum detected new block
[2014-01-01 15:57:09] thread 1: 2584187 hashes, 97.94 khash/s
[2014-01-01 15:57:09] thread 0: 2450084 hashes, 92.85 khash/s
[2014-01-01 15:57:56] Stratum detected new block
[2014-01-01 15:57:56] thread 1: 4516042 hashes, 96.19 khash/s
[2014-01-01 15:57:56] thread 0: 4470394 hashes, 95.22 khash/s
[2014-01-01 15:58:47] Stratum detected new block
[2014-01-01 15:58:47] thread 1: 5014353 hashes, 98.11 khash/s
[2014-01-01 15:58:47] thread 0: 4858043 hashes, 95.05 khash/s
[2014-01-01 15:59:38] Stratum detected new block
[2014-01-01 15:59:38] thread 1: 4872031 hashes, 95.95 khash/s
[2014-01-01 15:59:38] thread 0: 4835286 hashes, 95.23 khash/s
[2014-01-01 16:00:32] Stratum detected new block
[2014-01-01 16:00:32] thread 1: 5124016 hashes, 94.86 khash/s
[2014-01-01 16:00:32] thread 0: 5233683 hashes, 96.89 khash/s
[2014-01-01 16:01:02] Stratum detected new block
[2014-01-01 16:01:02] thread 1: 2955339 hashes, 98.56 khash/s
[2014-01-01 16:01:02] thread 0: 2782314 hashes, 92.79 khash/s
[2014-01-01 16:01:17] Stratum detected new block
[2014-01-01 16:01:17] thread 1: 1406305 hashes, 95.11 khash/s
[2014-01-01 16:01:17] thread 0: 1447170 hashes, 97.87 khash/s
[2014-01-01 16:01:46] Stratum detected new block
[2014-01-01 16:01:46] thread 1: 2858290 hashes, 97.44 khash/s
[2014-01-01 16:01:46] thread 0: 2847044 hashes, 97.05 khash/s
[2014-01-01 16:01:50] Stratum detected new block
[2014-01-01 16:01:50] thread 1: 378780 hashes, 97.93 khash/s
[2014-01-01 16:01:50] thread 0: 376182 hashes, 97.26 khash/s
[2014-01-01 16:02:07] Stratum detected new block
[2014-01-01 16:02:07] thread 1: 1570631 hashes, 91.53 khash/s
[2014-01-01 16:02:07] thread 0: 1698541 hashes, 98.99 khash/s
[2014-01-01 16:02:14] Stratum detected new block
[2014-01-01 16:02:14] thread 1: 669218 hashes, 96.99 khash/s
[2014-01-01 16:02:14] thread 0: 678893 hashes, 98.39 khash/s
[2014-01-01 16:02:43] Stratum detected new block
[2014-01-01 16:02:43] thread 1: 2652160 hashes, 92.23 khash/s
[2014-01-01 16:02:43] thread 0: 2685392 hashes, 93.38 khash/s
[2014-01-01 16:03:40] thread 0: 5603082 hashes, 98.80 khash/s
[2014-01-01 16:03:42] thread 1: 5533773 hashes, 93.84 khash/s
[2014-01-01 16:04:12] Stratum detected new block
[2014-01-01 16:04:12] thread 1: 2984891 hashes, 99.01 khash/s
[2014-01-01 16:04:12] thread 0: 3102935 hashes, 95.76 khash/s
[2014-01-01 16:05:08] Stratum detected new block
[2014-01-01 16:05:08] thread 1: 5491095 hashes, 98.10 khash/s
[2014-01-01 16:05:08] thread 0: 5227403 hashes, 93.39 khash/s
[2014-01-01 16:06:07] thread 0: 5603265 hashes, 95.63 khash/s

Mining IMAGINECOINS?!?

Why be so rude? You say it works and I say it does not. If you say it works then at least try to post something useful to help me getting it working, otherwise kindly keep your opinions to yourself.

@1BTCexperiment, what's your issue? this is a guide and it refers to DO, why you don't want me to add a ref to the guide is beyond me

@CheekyChappy, guide works perfectly fine, if you get errors you did something wrong (all you have to do is copy and paste my steps, actually...). If you are looking for help, where are you stuck?

@bittick, keep up the mining operations bro ;)

Thanks instacash. I will re-try again :)

Just let me know where you are stuck and I will try to help you out!

https://i.imgur.com/LJgCX3k.png)

sudo wget http://stonefoz.myfastmail.com/cpuminer-quark.zip

When I enter the above line, I get a 403 Forbidden error

Good that you're mentioning it! Apparently the link that hosts the file cpuminer-quark.zip is down. It hasn't been earlier today.

Please wait a second, I'll post a working link and update the guide

edit: here you go, this will fix the issue. ;)

Thank you very much. I appreciate that.. will try now and update you in a few minutes

+1

Ok I am mining, I see the threads in the droplet... thank you so much.

The strange thing is the worker is still not active... by now it should be active but still has the 'x' next to it showing inactive.

Sounds good mate -- the worker should be showing activity shortly

Happy mining!

Thanks Bro... still not showing as active but will wait and see what happens.

Thanks for your guide and patience. My worker still shows inactive yet I have been mining several minutes!

No problem at all, glad to help! Are you using correct worker login and password details in your client? for example


Also, do you see credit coming up under "Transactions"?

I entered the correct info:

./minerd -a quark -o stratum+tcp://prt.coinmine.pl:6080 -u mylogin.myworker -p myworkerlogin

nothing in transactions either

Finally active :)

Thanks for your help and patience instacash

Sure thing! Have a good one

When I enter the code to create the swap file..

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=64M count=16
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile
 
I get the following:

 c----@----:~$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=64M count=16
sudo: >>> /etc/sudoers: syntax error near line 31 <<<
sudo: >>> /etc/sudoers: syntax error near line 32 <<<
sudo: >>> /etc/sudoers: syntax error near line 33 <<<
sudo: parse error in /etc/sudoers near line 31
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin
c----@----:~$ sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo: >>> /etc/sudoers: syntax error near line 31 <<<
sudo: >>> /etc/sudoers: syntax error near line 32 <<<
sudo: >>> /etc/sudoers: syntax error near line 33 <<<
sudo: parse error in /etc/sudoers near line 31
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
sudo: unable to initialize policy plugin


I made a second user. If that is the issue, how can I remedy it?
Ill tip.

You're right, it seems like your sudoers file is indeed broken.

Please scrub your droplet, start from scratch and try it again exactly like this.


Cheers! If it still doesn't work just post and I'll be glad to help.

Hmm... with 8 core plan, I am only getting ~400kh/s.

What's up with that?

Instacash,

Thanks for the quick reply.
Thats actually what I did right before checking back here.
Everything is working as expected.
To tha moon!

Cheers bro, any time!



Hi there Meebo, you might want to destroy that particular droplet and create another one. On which location are you, New York 2? NY2 works best for me.

In my experience not all droplets are the same, sometimes there can be one that performs less well. You should average about ~ 650 kh/s on the 8 Core.

Hmm... Yes. I did with default settings: NY2, Ubuntu 12.04.3 x64 and "16GB / 8 CPUs 160GB SSD Disk 6TB Transfer".

Destroy it and create another one, see how it performs. I have several ones (both 4 CPU and 8 CPU) and I noticed that some perform better than others, so I use to destroy the bad ones and create new ones instead which I keep.

By the way, after creating the first cpuminer droplet I made an image of it, so whenever I want to launch another cpuminer droplet I just select the image to create a new one and can start to mining right away without having to set it up. Like this, it's easy to set up a new mining instance for any CPU coin in an instant. To create the image you have to temporarily shut down the server.

My best performing one at the moment:

HI,

Thanks for your guide, it took me a while but I finally got it up and running.

Question regarding screen, I input the code while the miner is running and nothing seems to happen, how do I go about making this work?


Thanks again

EDIT:  Nevermind figured it out just stopped the miner and ran the command, making a snapshot now too with all this done!

If I get several 16GB 8CPU droplets and start mining this again, is it still worth my while?

What sort of coins are you generating daily on 5x 8CPU droplets?

Thanks

This also works perfect with https://prt.suprnova.cc

(https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=396992.0)

We've added a mirror for the cpuminer there too:

https://prt.suprnova.cc/cpuminer-quark.zip

Which CPU is the best for this coin? Are there any comparisons between AMD/Intel chips?

I'm currently getting around 680kh/s from my i5 2500k running at 4.5Ghz

Thanks ;)

Thank you, ocminer. Thread updated!

Is this still worth doing with particle coin or is the difficulty high enough that I'd be better off buying directly rather than mining? Thanks!

Does anyone know what to chose, when I want to use aws amazon cloud hosting http://aws.amazon.com/free/

Just want to say thanks for the great post, very helpful, I set a similar system up a few years back on Amazon AWS but this was very helpful in refreshing my memory. Cheers

cloud mining profitable for this or any coin?

Sure, mate! No problem.


It is very profitable to mine CPU coins with this method while the coin's difficulty is low. After the difficulty has risen to new heights you should calculate how many coins you can mine with e.g. $10 credits and what those mined coins are worth if exchanged.

So with VPS mining...If you never see the "Yay!!" do you get paid still?

Also when my VPS miners are online, i see:

[2014-01-22 20:45:09] thread 0: 148588 hashes, 84.34 khash/s
[2014-01-22 20:45:15] Stratum detected new block
[2014-01-22 20:45:15] thread 0: 441931 hashes, 85.47 khash/s
[2014-01-22 20:45:22] Stratum detected new block
[2014-01-22 20:45:22] thread 0: 585206 hashes, 81.85 khash/s
[2014-01-22 20:45:23] Stratum detected new block
[2014-01-22 20:45:23] thread 0: 136403 hashes, 85.67 khash/s
[2014-01-22 20:45:29] thread 0: 504868 hashes, 92.58 khash/s


No errors or anything, but the pools seem to show that i'm not mining at all and my share count is at 0 all the time? makes no sense. Tried multiple pools. new servers and everything.

bump - anyone?

very strange. Try change worker, pool.

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When I use the 'screen' command i get a 'Cannot open your terminal '/dev/pts/0'' error. Can somebody help me with that?

. Help

Found it out myself. You have to SSH into the Droplet via the username you created and not as root in oder to work with screen.

up

somebody help me. already tried all the options. ubuntu users respond. All installed packages. the problem persists

solved the problem of using:sudo auto-apt update && auto-apt -y run ./configure