THIS IS A VERY OLD GUIDE. DONT USE IT.
Diff has skyrocketed but fortunately pools have been developed! Pools still are not fully tested and sometimes payout must be sent manually. There are not stats for miners except their hash/s
Pools are seem to work just fine and now with stratum!
If you make a new Digital ocean account try those codes for 10$ bonus.If those doesnt work try to google for DO codes:
DODEPLOY
ALLSSD10
lasmay
You can try the same guide not only for Digital Ocean but also for any linux pc (Ubuntu 14.04 has been tested).
I will update for better miners when and if they come out. This guide uses cpuminer-multi instead of simpleminer
Donations accepted :
Bitcoin: 1AzpruQg4xo684n6VeqhUL8t1zskbB4Ykn
Monero: 47CCXoUb7MpBYXZsjzzaeSZW5Ycv7KbCJ1n6ggumAxYv8bLjk5AcGBAWXvTRG7dKoLMGNWQp8w8kaZ1 ST4hetzCw3dwWonU
1) Please use my referral https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=9d68ca19e204 and create a droplet 2CPU 2GB Ram Ubuntu 14.04 64x .It must be 1GB or more. You can create up to 5 droplets. You may choose more CPUs per VM if you want of course. You just have to change the number of threads. User password and IP will be sent immediately to your email.
2) Connect with putty using using ip and password or just write those in the console that exists on DO webpage. 1 putty per droplet! You can always download putty from here http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html Putty is better cause you can copy paste everything. For linux just ssh...:
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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git make automake screen libcurl4-openssl-dev
git clone https://github.com/Lucasjones/cpuminer-multi
cd cpuminer-multi
./autogen.sh
./configure CFLAGS="-O3"
make
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Now cpuminer-multi has been compiled and you just have to run it. I run it with screen so that you can close putty/ssh connection and mining can keep up:
Choose a pool. For example http://moneropool.org/ . All you need to type in order to start mining is:
screen -S minerd ./minerd -a cryptonight --url=moneropool.com:5555 --user=yourmoneroaddress --pass=x -t 2
moneropool.com:5555 is the url of the pool you want to mine
yourmoneroaddress is your wallet address.
2 is the numbers of threads you want to run. 2 for 2cpu in that case.
Once it starts press Ctrl A and then D so that you can detach from screen. Now you can safely close putty or console and mining will continue. When you want to check again a simple screen -r will open the mining screen.
Please correct me if you find any errors or if you have any other info and please comment here for any questions! This way others can also find solution for the same problem. In case you send a PM i will answer here!