All. Although i have a feeling that it is better to mine when workers are low the pool.

According to DO:

How do I choose between monthly and hourly billing?
There is no difference between monthly and hourly billing. All droplets are billed hourly, up until a monthly cap. We have estimated that each month has about 672 hours (28 days). If you use your server for less than 672 hours during the month, you will be billed for each hour that you used it. If you use your server for more than 672 hours that month, you will be billed at the monthly cost, which is no greater than 672 hours.

Personally i calculate by the hour...Mind the price is per droplet. If you have 5 droplets 2cpu 2gb its 0.03$ per hour each so 0.15 per hour all of them

I answer here because others might want to know about this too. So when mining has started you can terminate it with Ctrl+C because you may want to change a parameter. For example you may want to change threads or your address or even pool. The automatic script i use in the OP can be used again of course but makefile will take 5 minutes or so and its not efficient to do this everytime. So you can run this:

./primeminer -pooluser=DQsoZjorSHBXDUhVkYn7VuSfzG2RfYLpuy.x1  -poolpassword=0 -poolip=162.243.41.59 -poolport=8336 -poolshare=6 -genproclimit=2


Now the error you have is because you try to run the program "primeminer" but you are not in the folder that you have downloaded it. (Download happened automatically with the script of the OP)

so see at terminal where you are. I think you will be on root or just ./ (its the same). So you have to type cd primecoin/src in order to go to the directory that primeminer is and then run the line above.

Now if you are not in the root folder (root folder is the main one. Something like C: on windows) but in another folder if you type "cd .." you go back one folder. You do this until you get to root and then "cd primecoin/src" and then run the script.

Hope this helps

I will surely explain more in the near future

I followed metraque's  advice and i has to say it is clearly better!

Now from 5 2CPU droplets i get around 2.5chains per day while with 1 8CPU i was getting something like 2.2-2.3 chains per day.

And instead of paying 0.238$ per hour i pay 0.15$ per hour.

So thanks a lot!

I agree with you but you except one thing. There is no capitalism without super greed. It is the essence of capitalism. You like it or not. There is no middle position. There is no way BTC community will keep together. Greedy behaviour will exist as soon as capitalism exists.

I just made a guide for pool mining in the Newbie section.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=384112.msg4132021

I hope it is helpful. If you find any mistakes please correct me.

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First of all find everything about Datacoin here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=358592.0

Now first of all you have to download your Datacoin wallet if you dont have one. You can also use a web-based wallet like bter.com or coins-e.com but web-based wallets are not as secure as the wallets on your computer.
For windows you can download from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/datacoin/files/
For Linux checck here: http://datacoin.info/index.php?id=datacoind-build-instructions-linux

After you donwload it it should take some time to synchronize and download by itself all the blocks. It takes some time to connect. You may also need to add in the help/debug window/console a few addnodes from here if it doesnt connect fast: http://datacoin.info/addnodes . You just copy paste a few of those.

After you set up a wallet make a new address. I call my address "Mining" for example. It looks like this: DQsoZjorSHBXDUhVkYn7VuSfzG2RfYLpuy


Currently there are two pools. First one is out for a day now and second one for a week. 1st one has only 30 workers while second one  30k. I prefer the first one because 1 pool must not have all the power. So i am trying to help the first one although i get less frequent payouts! But fee is also less.
1) http://dtc.xpool.xram.co/          1% Fee  
2) http://dtc.gpool.net/                2% Fee

For windows: Choose a pool. Now all you have to do in order to mine is to download this and unzip it: http://www.mediafire.com/download/473rshiav08074t/primeminer_v08_rc1.zip
In the folder there would be 4 files. Right click and edit primeminer_x64_edit-me.bat file.
If you chose the first pool delete everything in the .bat file and paste this one:

primeminer_x64.exe -pooluser=DQsoZjorSHBXDUhVkYn7VuSfzG2RfYLpuy -poolpassword=PASSWORD -poolip=dtc.xpool.xram.co -poolport=1335 -poolshare=6 -genproclimit=4

If you chose the second pool use this one

primeminer_x64.exe -pooluser=DQsoZjorSHBXDUhVkYn7VuSfzG2RfYLpuy -poolpassword=PASSWORD -poolip=162.243.41.59 -poolport=8336 -poolshare=6 -genproclimit=4

*DQsoZjorSHBXDUhVkYn7VuSfzG2RfYLpuy is my address. You have to change this to your wallet address
*4 is the number of threads that you want your computer to run. In my i3 laptop i have a total of 4 threads. If i use 4 of them i cant use my computer for anything else as it is too laggy but this way i mine the most of it. If i use 2 threads then i dont have a problem and i mine as i use my computer. Your computer may have more threads. Put the number of your threads according to your CPU
*You dont need a PASSWORD for those pools. Let it as is and it should work.
Now all you need to do is to save this .bat file you made and close it. Then just run it buy double clicking it and you have started mining!

For Linux: (I have tried it on Ubuntu 13.10 and 13.04 and Debian 7) On the terminal put the following:

sudo apt-get update  
sudo apt-get install yasm -y git make g++ build-essential libminiupnpc-dev    (and press enter)
sudo apt-get install -y libboost-all-dev libdb++-dev libgmp-dev libssl-dev dos2unix (and press enter)
git clone https://github.com/thbaumbach/primecoin (and press enter)
cd primecoin/src (and press enter)
make -f makefile.unix and enter (this will take a few minutes)

And then you only have to write this and enter and you are already mining!:
For first pool:

./primeminer -pooluser=DQsoZjorSHBXDUhVkYn7VuSfzG2RfYLpuy -poolpassword=PASSWORD -poolip=dtc.xpool.xram.co -poolport=1335 -poolshare=6 -genproclimit=4

For second pool:

./primeminer -pooluser=DQsoZjorSHBXDUhVkYn7VuSfzG2RfYLpuy -poolpassword=PASSWORD -poolip=162.243.41.59 -poolport=8336 -poolshare=6 -genproclimit=4


*See above in the Windows section what you have to change for the red colors


I hope this guide will help you with mining Datacoins. I will try to make this guide even better as it may have mistakes as of now. Feel free to ask anything! I will try to help you as much as i can.

And one more thing. Dont sell you Datacoins fast! Right now price is undervalued. 1 Datacoin will sure be above 1 dollar at least. Gather some Datacoins first, see how market works and then exchange

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I think it is really nice. Lets see if people also like it

No, i dont think there is a problem. Now i would like to know if PoS can also be implemented and if this stupid idea or not.

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Thank you!

If it was sha2 those that had paid for Asic miners for bitcoins would have killed it since after 1 month they would have mine much of it living nothing for late adopters.

The same goes for scrypt. Those with good expensive graphics cards would have mined most of it.

Only cpu coins like Datacoin, Primecoin and Protoshare (not quark, molecule because those can be now mined with GPUs too) are being mined more slowly and this is good for most adopters if time has passed. For example my i3 laptop now mines 0.3DTC per day. And i am using my laptop 10 hours a day at least.

The problems though for cpu coins are the botnets. Someone with a botnet can easily make its slaves mine for him cpu coins. And this is actually happening with all CPU coins. But pools can easily find botnets and ban them.

Hi. You didnt pay 10 dollars so i can get your referral. Maybe you paid only 5.

But anyway i sent you 1.1 DTC.

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As for the number of cpus i think you are right and i will change it i think...

I have a feeling that this is not going to work. A proposal:

250 Units at 0.08 for those that will buy 50 or 100 or 150 or 200 or 250
250 Units at 0.1 for those that will buy less than 50.

If people want to buy okay. If people dont then we dont buy. Its not your fault that we have problems buying. Its bitmain's price. Those will never ROI and everyone knows that so people dont want to invest....


Also yes, clean the OP. Maybe this will bring more people here...

btw in another thread people seem to buying for 0.105 i think. But USA...

that means that we need at least 19 more persons to buy at least 10. Which i am afraid is not going to happen anytime soon.

Guys come to this one two because 24 workers cant compete with 29000 workers! And one pool only must not have most computing power....

So bump

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Thanks!

this is what happens when you allow money to control you. fixed thad for ya