I did last week, made a killing. However I'm looking for a different VPS alternative because after the latest diff update this will no longer be profitable.
I'm thinking about switching to EC2. Anyone using them?
i have stopped it, because if the price drops - profit => lost with the long time the blocks need to mature im out!
but here are some stats:
----- Mon Jul 22 19:24:42 CEST 2013 -----
------------ PRIMECOIN ------------
20 Units - 16 Hours unit ~= 96 $ @30c /H*Unit
---- 180544 PrimesPerSec
---- 29460 5-chains
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Immature: 12 - Orphans: 0 => ~ 142 XPM
Blocks: 78175 - Difficulty: 9.22064346
Node Connections: 269
---------------------------------------------
so running 20 x cc2.8xlarge (0.25-0.28 each), 16 hours long => 12 blocks (aprox. 142 XPM)
with about 9000 pps or 1500 5-chains per cc2.8xlarge its "profitable", BUT you have to wait over a day until the blocks mature, sooo 30 % profit is not enough for taking the risk in my oppinion.
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with mikaelh's script
primecoind setgenerate false &&
primecoind listsinceblock 963d17ba4dc753138078a2f56afb3af9674e2546822badff26837db9a0152106 | grep address | grep -o '"A[^"]*"' | sed s/\"//g | xargs -L1 primecoind dumpprivkey &&
./stop-primecoind &&
sleep 2 &&
rm ~/.primecoin/wallet.dat &&
sleep 2 &&
./run-primecoind
without
./primecoind setgenerate false &&
./primecoind listsinceblock 963d17ba4dc753138078a2f56afb3af9674e2546822badff26837db9a0152106 | grep address | grep -o '"A[^"]*"' | sed s/\"//g | xargs -L1 primecoind dumpprivkey &&
./primecoind stop &&
sleep 2 &&
rm ~/.primecoin/wallet.dat &&
sleep 2 &&
./primecoind -daemon
if you don't know what private keys are, don't handle these scripts
