Been lurking around this topic mining HOdl for a couple days and thought I'd put together a little could mining tutorial for anyone who's interested.
I can't promise any coins as I haven't managed to find any blocks on my 3 seperate 2cpu clouds running for 2 days straight at 30h/s each LOL...but if you feel like spending money you can upgrade to something a little faster.
I've been using
www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=f880234fe461 (referral link will get you $10 free credit, but you have to spend $5 to activate account regardless)
The 2cpu option is $.03/hour so with the $10 credit and $5 activation you can mine for 500 hours.
Once activated, click the green "create droplet" in the upper right corner of the page.
Use Ubuntu as OS (Debian will work but requires more work to get bitcoin repository)
Select cloud Specs(2 CPU is the only one available by default and anything better requires a deposit. $10 extra got me access to the 4g ram 2cpu which was useless and I'm not sure what it takes to get the better ones.)
All other variables are optional but if you are a beginner just leave it default and create the droplet.
Once it's done, click "more" next to your droplet and chose "access console" from the drop-down list.
Now type "root" and hit enter. It will prompt you for a password which was emailed to you upon creation of the droplet. (You will need to enter it twice and change it to something else.)
Once you are logged into root you can get started. Enter these commands one at a time, hitting enter after each and allow the process to finish completely before entering the next. Many of them will require that you select Y for yes or N for no. Always chose y then hit enter.
apt-get update
apt-get install checkinstall subversion git git-core build-essential
apt-get install libssl-dev libminiupnpc-dev
add-apt-repository ppa:bitcoin/bitcoin
apt-get update
apt-get install libdb4.8-dev libdb4.8++-dev
apt-get install libboost-all-dev automake libtool autoconf
apt-get install pkg-config
git clone https://github.com/FreeTrade/HOdlcoin
cd HOdlcoin
./autogen.sh && ./configure --without-gui
make
make install
mkdir -p ~/.hodlcoin/
nano ~/.hodlcoin/hodlcoin.conf
From here you will create your configuration file. I recommend the following
rpcuser=username
rpcpassword=password
p2pport=1989
rpcport=11989
daemon=1
server=1
gen=1
minermemory=1
genproclimit=-1
miningaddress=yourwalletaddresshere
Once complete, ctrl+o to write, then ctrl+x to exit nano
Now to start the miner and view its progress, enter the following commands
cd ~/.hodlcoin
hodlcoind
tailf debug.log
To exit the status of debug.log you can use ctrl+c
To stop the miner once out of debug.log use,
Once started you can leave the webpage and it will continue mining.
If anyone finds typos, incorrect information, or has any critique let me know and i will correct the post.
Feel free to ask any questions and I will help as much as possible!
