[How To] Cloud mining Quark for free

[Kenshin]

Some of you Newbies might want to mine for free. This is what I am going to show you.

I am going to show you how to rent a cloud server for free. Then I will teach you how to mine Quark.

1. Go to https://www.digitalocean.com/ and signup for free. But you need to have credit card or debit card to put in the box. It will not charge you anything for 1 month. That is why you close your account at the end of the month.

2. You will see 3 payment options, select the 3rd one. And enter DIVEIN10 in the coupon box, and you will receive $10 to your account, for free.
[Update] Try this code if the coupon code don't work: 2014SSD

3. Create 2 servers with 1 CPU for $5 each. Select Ubuntu platform as your server, select the newest x64 server.

4. Next you will receive password and IP address of the server in your mailbox, the one you used for sign-up.

5. Windows users will need Putty, Linux and Mac users open terminal and enter command ssh@ip address of your server, after that enter password and you have logged into server

6. Now the mining part we will be doing CPU mining since the cloud servers are not optimized with great GPU’s. So we are going to mine Quark.

Code:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libcurl4-openssl-dev automake git libcurl3 screen
git clone https://github.com/uncle-bob/quarkcoin-cpuminer.git
cd quarkcoin-cpuminer
./autogen.sh
./configure CFLAGS="-O3"
make

7.Now you have installed cpuminer on server.To run miner you have to do the following command :

Code:

screen ./minerd -a quark -t 8 -o http://qrk.mine-pool.net:8372 -u <YouQRKWallet> -p xxx

If you have many email address. You can create more Cloud Server account. So when this account expire in 1 month. Create another account, so they never going to charge you.


Please Donate Quark: QjSMbwe8ap7bHpyfREmjuAo3TUyMzQnbZu

[Franconomasky]

Hi, I did this, and this is showing on my putty screen: After this operation, 14.9 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Abort.
root@BTCminer:~# ./minerd -a quark -t 8 -o http://qrk.mine-pool.net:8372 -u <YouQRKWallet> -p xxxQfT3j6QTs7DRGRCLNRy1FzZ4b2sprTNtoz
-bash: YouQRKWallet: No such file or directory
root@BTCminer:~#

Because I am new to this, could you help me to work it out? Thank you.

[victor781]

Thank you very much for this easy to understand cloud mining guide. I have just registered and am new to mining. I had no idea this was even possible for free. I assumed that either you had to pay a fortune for expensive mining gear or pay a fortune to use cloud based gear.

[Horrux]

I did this. My Computer restarted during the night. I think my droplets are still mining and likely do not need any supervision until the time comes to shut them down?

EDIT: It seems I must keep these windows open for the servers to keep mining. Oh well.

Also, is there a way to change the root password? This must be a totally noob question for all you Linux pros out there, but I am totally new to this...

And thanks!!!

[Kenshin]

I did this. My Computer restarted during the night. I think my droplets are still mining and likely do not need any supervision until the time comes to shut them down?

EDIT: It seems I must keep these windows open for the servers to keep mining. Oh well.

Also, is there a way to change the root password? This must be a totally noob question for all you Linux pros out there, but I am totally new to this...

And thanks!!!

Code:

passwd root

Hi, I did this, and this is showing on my putty screen: After this operation, 14.9 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Abort.
root@BTCminer:~# ./minerd -a quark -t 8 -o http://qrk.mine-pool.net:8372 -u <YouQRKWallet> -p xxxQfT3j6QTs7DRGRCLNRy1FzZ4b2sprTNtoz
-bash: YouQRKWallet: No such file or directory
root@BTCminer:~#

Because I am new to this, could you help me to work it out? Thank you.

Have you got the minerd? You need to cd into it.

[Horrux]

I did this. My Computer restarted during the night. I think my droplets are still mining and likely do not need any supervision until the time comes to shut them down?

EDIT: It seems I must keep these windows open for the servers to keep mining. Oh well.

Also, is there a way to change the root password? This must be a totally noob question for all you Linux pros out there, but I am totally new to this...

And thanks!!!

Code:

passwd root

Is there a switch missing here? That does not work, and I looked at the "help" the OS offers, but it does not help me out at all.

[Kenshin]

I did this. My Computer restarted during the night. I think my droplets are still mining and likely do not need any supervision until the time comes to shut them down?

EDIT: It seems I must keep these windows open for the servers to keep mining. Oh well.

Also, is there a way to change the root password? This must be a totally noob question for all you Linux pros out there, but I am totally new to this...

And thanks!!!

Code:

passwd root

Is there a switch missing here? That does not work, and I looked at the "help" the OS offers, but it does not help me out at all.

No, nothing is missing. Just type that in the shell, then press enter.

[DCP]

Great tutorial, thanks! I'm going to try it..

[DCP]

That coupon code expired but I found another one that works:  2014SSD

[DCP]

well, if you're new it's an incomplete tutorial and didn't work.   

Everything went well until this part:

./autogen.sh
./configure CFLAGS="-O3"
make

then it says command not found.

[Kenshin]

well, if you're new it's an incomplete tutorial and didn't work.   

Everything went well until this part:

./autogen.sh
./configure CFLAGS="-O3"
make

then it says command not found.

Did you

Code:

cd quarkcoin-cpuminer

[DCP]

Did you

Code:

cd quarkcoin-cpuminer

Yes, I did. You're sure that what you put in the instructions is exact? 

(something I figured out which is helpful for newbies is that you can ctl-c from notepad and then right click with putty to paste)

[juggs]

I did this. My Computer restarted during the night. I think my droplets are still mining and likely do not need any supervision until the time comes to shut them down?

EDIT: It seems I must keep these windows open for the servers to keep mining. Oh well.

Also, is there a way to change the root password? This must be a totally noob question for all you Linux pros out there, but I am totally new to this...

And thanks!!!

Use the "screen" command. http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/screen.html

Here's the gist of it, I'm not going into detail as that's covered in a plethora of howto's splattered all over the intertubes....

If you ssh into a server and run minerd, then your ssh session disconnects due to network problems, the server times out your login and terminates all running processes associated with it. As well it should, that's just sensible housekeeping.

Instead, ssh into your server, call up "screen", then run your minerd in the screen session. If your ssh session is interrupted, no matter, the miner process carries on within screen and you can reconnect to it when you next establish an ssh session.

screen is available in pretty much all common Linux distros.

screen is just one of several ways to kick tasks into the background and disown them from your current login session such that they don't get killed if you get disconnected. This problem was solved a long time before mining came along.

Hit up your favourite search engine with something like "Linux how to use screen" - you'll have to learn a few commands to disconnect, list or reconnect screens, but they kinda become auto-pilot once you have more than one remote machine.

GL

[Horrux]

Thank you so much Juggs!

I'm finally learning some Linux!

[juggs]

Glad to help

Had I been more on the ball when I posted that I'd have added some useful linkies from my overstuffed bookmarks. When you first start using Linux, it can be really hard to know what terms to even search for to find answers to the most basic questions. Thankfully that phase passes really quickly once you get a modicum of a grasp on how it all ties together.

Page with a handy table of common screen shortcuts:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-screen-command-howto.html

A silly tour of the Linux filesystem:
http://www.tuxradar.com/content/take-linux-filesystem-tour

And just when you start feeling comfortable, along comes the Linux approach to handling sound to explode your noodle-god:
http://tuxradar.com/content/how-it-works-linux-audio-explained

Have fun learning

[U1TRA_L0RD]

I beleive its much better on Windows Azure, I have 8 thread CPU mining for 30 Days Free Trial.

[jballs]

I'm super tech savvy for an old guy with no clue.

I am going to attempt this to educate myself a bit. Curious how many quark you can expect to mine using this approach with just one account?

Thanks...

[User705]

I beleive its much better on Windows Azure, I have 8 thread CPU mining for 30 Days Free Trial.

So how many quarks does that actually generate?

[U1TRA_L0RD]

I beleive its much better on Windows Azure, I have 8 thread CPU mining for 30 Days Free Trial.

So how many quarks does that actually generate?

The maximum amount of Virtual Machines you an have set up for the trial is 2, Im mining at 60 kh/s

[lorenz2356]

when cloud mining do i need to maintain my computer open or just run it and then close the computer?