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1) Click on EC2, and then click on Spot Requests under Instances on left sidebar.

2) Click Request Spot Instances blue button near top, and then click Community AMIs and search for XMRminer. Select XMRminer2.

3) For Instance Type, select GPU instances g2.2xlarge, click next and set your maximum price (kind of expensive now, need to do like
$0.09 per hour, used to be more like $0.06).

4) Click Review and Launch and then click Launch. At this point you need to setup your ssh keys. I did this a while ago, so I don't remember exact details, but it should be pretty straightforward. Here is a link to Amazon's official tutorial on key pair creation:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-key-pairs.html
Let me know if you have issues.

5) Make yourself a cup of tea and wait 30-120 seconds while your instance is prepared.

6) You'll need to ssh into your instance. On Linux you just put your ssh keys in ~/.ssh and set permissions for 400 (I think), and if you ssh from that folder, that's all you need to do. I think on Windows, using Putty, you need to maybe convert the key to putty's format using an extra putty tool. Let me know if you need additional help with this. Here are Amazon's official links on how to connect if you're having trouble:
ssh/Linux - http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AccessingInstancesLinux.html
Putty/Windows - http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/putty.html
More Putty - http://docs.aws.amazon.com/gettingstarted/latest/wah-linux/getting-started-deploy-app-connect.html

7) Click on Instances in the left sidebar, and you should see a g2.2xlarge instance with green circle that says running. Click that and then click Connect at the top, and it should give you your IP address to connect to with some instructions.

8 ) On Linux your ssh command should look like:
Use ubuntu as user not root.

9) Maybe it's more like 180-300 seconds. Drink some tea while waiting.

10) When it prompts you to permanently add key, click "yes".

11) Now, you need to edit cpustart.sh and gpustart.sh in your home directory using either vi or nano, unless you want to mine to my XMR address ;) It looks like if you want to mine directly to exchange, just replace my XMR address in both files with YourExchangeXMRAddress.YourExchangePaymentID.

12) You need to run two commands, one to make gpuminer work, and other to make cpuminer much faster:

13) I just made another script called start.sh to launch both miners at once, and it seems to work. So do:
then vi or nano start.sh and add:
then:
and then launch with:
You need the screen so that when you disconnect your ssh session, the miners keep mining.

That's it. You can disconnect and both miners should be hashing away. You can ssh back in and run
and you should see minerd and ccminer listed in the processes somewhere near the bottom.

If you want to launch a shitload of instances, then obviously you want to automate this process and not do it manually every time. In this case, you need to make sure you edit the files so that they have your XMR address and not mine, and create the start.sh script in home directory, then edit the rc.local file by doing:
and add the following lines:
This way, as soon as the instance boots up, it should autolaunch the miners. I haven't tried this final automation part (as I don't normally launch a shitload of instances), but I think this should work, and I'm gonna verify it now.

Now, go back to your EC2 console, right-click on the g2.2xlarge instance in your Instances window, and select Create Image. This will sever your connection and cause a reboot, but you will now have your own image/AMI that you can launch 10s or 100s or 1000s of, just by entering however many instances you want when filling out your spot request form.

I just tried the rc.local thing, and it seems to auto-launch ccminer and minerd :)

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LOL nifty boy ... apparently u aren't aware of the fact that BCX himself owns and operates one of the largest pools of all around

~CfA~

Of XMR  ::)

uh no.  fail.

LOL nifty boy ... apparently u aren't aware of the fact that BCX himself owns and operates one of the largest pools of all around

~CfA~

I'm so tired of Monero topics, when will the mess stop?

And do NOT MINE on the three largest pools.
BCX could bribe one of the largest pools and it would make financial sense for any one of them to sell for 100 btc which would give him control of the hash (saw someone else mention this).  It's fear mongering - but from an economic perspective it would probably be cheaper for him than AWS.

No way he could bride me. Fuck this *beeeeep*.

ROFL
~CfA~

Marry me please.

1+

+ Infinity

It appears as though I have a couple of instances mining into somebody else's wallet.  Sigh.

You're welcome, whoever you are!

11) Now, you need to edit cpustart.sh and gpustart.sh in your home directory using either vi or nano, unless you want to mine to my XMR address ;) It looks like if you want to mine directly to exchange, just replace my XMR address in both files with YourExchangeXMRAddress.YourExchangePaymentID.

Maybe you missed step 11 -


There's also a totally automated AMI now that mines straight to the developer's donation address called XMRminerToDevFund, see here for more info:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=653467.msg8931252#msg8931252

Maybe you missed step 11 -

I am actually so bad at this that I wasn't mining into anybody's wallet because I started it incorrectly.  Damn vi...switched to nano, though, and now I'm good.  Running two instances, and will set up some more tonight.

Just a question first, though...I believe that when I did ps -A I saw minerd but not ccminer.  Is something still screwed up?

sudo ldconfig /usr/local/cuda-5.5/lib64

pgrep ccminer

Why such hatred, i don't understand. Instead of clicking ignore on the obvious trolls, you build up this hatred for monero and anyone that holds/develops/likes/believes in the project. I've really never seen anything like it  

Do you solo mine ?

Because if so, i doubt poloniex will be able to give you your coins.

The poloniex address is a global wallet address. what distinguish user who make deposit is the payement ID.

Some pools accept to transfer miner xmr to poloniex as soon as you provide them with address+payment ID.

Else you should mine to using your own wallet address. Its safer and better !

Second wallet operation are suspended at Poloniex, which means deposit and withdrawal.

The only things is that the deposit transaction are in the blockchain but they wont integrate them to your poloniex account to avoid any trick/cheat during the freeze.

So basically your deposit transactions are not lost, just not displayed on your xmr balance on poloniex.

Yeah, I'm puzzled myself. Haven't been visiting the XMR community a lot lately but it seems it's mostly Stealthcoin shills fudding. No idea why though..

THIS

Does anyone have a step-by-step guide to setting up jwinterm's AMI to solo-mine? I have it pool-mining, but solo-mining using the above link is a bit over my head.

You gotta have some serious hash if you want to solo mine, pa, or be willing to keep your AMI instance running for a long time. Optimistically, you will get 650 h/s per instance on Amazon. Current difficulty is 1.14e9, so you would need on average 1.14e9 hashes / 650 h/s = 1.75e6 seconds = 20 days or so, and with variance that could be well over a month, and also difficulty may increase significantly in the next month as well.

Unless you plan on running the instance(s) for several weeks at least, or you're going to run 20-30 instances, I wouldn't even worry about trying to solo mine. I would just recommend using a pool with less than 100 kh/s. You can find a list of smaller pools with here: http://minexmr.com/pools.html
scroll down to see smaller pools.

I found this good summary of the situation:

http://bullbearanalytics.com/2014/09/23/whats-going-monero/