[Updated] Guide To Pool Cloud Mining Protoshares - Also get free PTS!

[BitshireHashaway]

Note that if you try and spend $10, I'll give you .25 protoshare ($2.5@currency prices on btc38, which means you can get you first $10 of cloud mining done as a test for 25% off)

*Thank you to Super3 and Belltown for the original guide*

Hello Everyone,
Recently a thread has been published about mining Protoshares on the cloud - something which can be very profitable to do. Here I have taken the feedback from people in the cloud and have decided to put that all in one thread for you guys. I've also tried to make it a bit simpler for "newbies".

To start, please sign up for DigitalOcean using my referral link: https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=3a96071d7d5f If you do, I'll give you some PTS for trying it out:), just post your address in this thread. To get extra, let me know you used my referral code (and if I got the referrals) then I'll give you .25 PTS!


Guide For beeeeer.org
First you need to create a droplet. I recommend starting with as large of a size as possible, though the best started is the 4 CPU / 8 GB - but feel free to start with a smaller one. Just don't use the smallest because when I tried it I got an error for using too much memory. . Make sure to make  Debian 7.0 x64 your image. Once your droplet is created you should see a button in the top right that says root access. Click on that button and use your username and password (that are emailed to you when you create a droplet) to log in.

Once you have logged in type in the following code in order:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y git make g++ build-essential libminiupnpc-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libboost-all-dev libdb++-dev libgmp-dev libssl-dev dos2unix

git clone https://github.com/thbaumbach/ptsminer
cd ~/ptsminer/src
make -f makefile.unix
./ptsminer <your PTS address> <number of threads>

Go to http://ptsweb.beeeeer.org/user/<your PTS address> to see how many coins your getting!

If this guide helped you to mine some coins please send your tips to PqmyVWJtJgb2qudCiDyQvTMo7ibJfWiuvY

Thanks!

[Currently Paid Out: 2.75 PTS]
[Currently Owed: 0.00 PTS]

Guide for ypool.net coming soon:)

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[AndrewWilliams]

Username for Github??



**Damn, Beeer is down again!!!! *** ARGH so frustrating.

[GHamilton]

I've been running the script for around 8 hours, all that time beer was down. Does that mean I'm mining for nothing? I've seen no payments or anything in my wallet so I'm a little confused as to how this works.

[lajz99]

I used your referral and deposited $25 but I'm waiting for beeeeer to come back up or other instructions to begin.

PfAspGcAYwxKz9Zzw71tVNkKxqtrB53Tqm

[BitshireHashaway]

Username for Github??



**Damn, Beeer is down again!!!! *** ARGH so frustrating.

Yeah its been a pain for me too. I'm trying to figure out how to get it to work for ypool.net, more reliable. Except ypool.net I haven't figured out how to see PTS earned per worker so unless you make a separate account for cloud computing it would be harder to see how much your cloud servers have earned and if there worth it.


Do you need a username for Github, it worked for me w/out one. That miner isn't mine I'm just linking to it for you guys to put on the cloud server.


However right now, my miners connected to beeeeer.org are still running, even though the stats aren't turning up I'll check it tomorrow morning to see how its doing.

[BitshireHashaway]

I've been running the script for around 8 hours, all that time beer was down. Does that mean I'm mining for nothing? I've seen no payments or anything in my wallet so I'm a little confused as to how this works.

The website is down but my laptop and online miner are both still connecting. We'll have to wait for statistics to come back up to see if we got anything. Also realize if your for example using the $10/month option, beeeeer.org pays out at 1.00 PTS which could take a while because 1 PTS = $7 and your not going to get like 1 every 8 hours from $10/month in expenditures, its not that profitable

[BitshireHashaway]

I used your referral and deposited $25 but I'm waiting for beeeeer to come back up or other instructions to begin.

PfAspGcAYwxKz9Zzw71tVNkKxqtrB53Tqm

Address saved. I need to get a little bit more in my ypool account before I can withdraw and then I'll pay you. Thanks!

[lajz99]

Is this miner the most recent they released? 

On my AMD 4 core at home I get 77c/m and I'm only getting 75-77c/m on the 8 core in the cloud.  Maybe this is to be expected?

[Kyune]

What is the most efficient way to automate startup of the miner across multiple droplets?

[GHamilton]

I'm using the 4 CPU model, running one instance with 7 threads. I only get 26 c/m. Am I doing something wrong? If someone could give me some pointers or something that would be much appreciated. Should I run multiple instances and if so how would I do that?

[slavo]

I don't understand how to access to the droplet anyone can help ?

I go to console access; then it asks for my login; but i can't type my password, it's blocked...

if someone who already did it can skype me; that would be nice

(give me ur skype via pm if you can help)

(1LTC bounty as i'm not rich at all   )

edit : fixed 

[matthewh3]

I followed your instructions on Xubuntu 12.4 and I get this after following your instructions -

Code:

.ptsminer: command not found

Code:

:~/ptsminer/src$ ls
main_poolminer.cpp    makefile.mingw    makefile.unix  sha2.h
main_poolminer.hpp    makefile.mingw64  obj
makefile.linux-mingw  makefile.osx      sha2.cpp

I'm willing to donate some coins for help.

[matthewh3]

I followed your instructions on Xubuntu 12.4 and I get this after following your instructions -

Code:

.ptsminer: command not found

Code:

:~/ptsminer/src$ ls
main_poolminer.cpp    makefile.mingw    makefile.unix  sha2.h
main_poolminer.hpp    makefile.mingw64  obj
makefile.linux-mingw  makefile.osx      sha2.cpp

I'm willing to donate some coins for help.

Although after

Code:

sudo apt-get install -y git make g++ build-essential libminiupnpc-dev

I get -

Code:

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
 libminiupnpc-dev : Depends: libminiupnpc8 (= 1.6-3ubuntu1) but 1.6-precise2 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[BitshireHashaway]

I'm using the 4 CPU model, running one instance with 7 threads. I only get 26 c/m. Am I doing something wrong? If someone could give me some pointers or something that would be much appreciated. Should I run multiple instances and if so how would I do that?

Is this miner the most recent they released? 

On my AMD 4 core at home I get 77c/m and I'm only getting 75-77c/m on the 8 core in the cloud.  Maybe this is to be expected?

Cloud Cores are slower than non cloud cores. I'm researching how to make it faster but don't be surprised if it is slower. Focus more on your profits/costs. I'll see if I can get it more optimized though:)

[BitshireHashaway]

I don't understand how to access to the droplet anyone can help ?

I go to console access; then it asks for my login; but i can't type my password, it's blocked...

if someone who already did it can skype me; that would be nice

(give me ur skype via pm if you can help)

(1LTC bounty as i'm not rich at all   )

edit : fixed 

Glad you got it fixed. That stumped me too, I figured out eventually, just type in your password and you can't see it, but once you type it in, then you hit enter and your good to go!

[BitshireHashaway]

What is the most efficient way to automate startup of the miner across multiple droplets?

From my experience you have to do it all again each time, it doesn't take very long though.

[markj113]

$10 free credit, use the promo code - DIVEIN10

Tokens of appreciation welcome

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[lajz99]

Looks like beeeeer is back up, and the backend was working.

[AndrewWilliams]

Looks like beeeeer is back up, and the backend was working.

I will retry. But what a PITA!

Is it even ROI at this point?

[lajz99]

Looks like beeeeer is back up, and the backend was working.

I will retry. But what a PITA!

Is it even ROI at this point?

I'm not sure cause I'm running on a local machine as well...someone posted last night that difficulty was going up in 20 hours so I'm hitting it hard right now.

[AndrewWilliams]

Looks like beeeeer is back up, and the backend was working.

I will retry. But what a PITA!

Is it even ROI at this point?

I'm not sure cause I'm running on a local machine as well...someone posted last night that difficulty was going up in 20 hours so I'm hitting it hard right now.

OK thanks. Let me know how you make out.

[BitshireHashaway]

Beeeeer.org is back up and I checked my stats -descent profit, gonna hit it hard until difficulty changes.

Those who haven't signed up yet under me - now is the time to do so, PM me if you have any questions.

[BitshireHashaway]

For those who are curious. I am currently running the following.

1x of the $10/month instance: currently getting .1 shares/minute/each (profitable based on my calculations)
3x of the $20/month instance: currently getting .3 shares/minute/each (profitable based on my calculations)

I remember reading somewhere on the website that they limit you to 5 instances so I may make the last one a big one - one of the several hundred dollar a month ones depending on how it goes .


Track my earnings: http://ptsweb.beeeeer.org/user/Pi6ccm9iQZLGtsBstZmXVp9FPRNnJwe6Kc

[BitshireHashaway]

Looks like beeeeer is back up, and the backend was working.

I will retry. But what a PITA!

Is it even ROI at this point?

Yes I am experiencing descent ROI at this point.

[BitshireHashaway]

Now is the time to mine - Chinese markets have pushed the price per PTS to almost $10/each at btc38.com (.022BTC/each) - large profit to be had. On the same note the reward for signing up under me has been decreased to .25 PTC otherwise I'm losing money for those who sign up under me - people could sign up and then just make accounts and collect 1 PTS each time making a profit + having $10 in cloud mining credit.

2 people have come forth to claim their reward so far.

[jt7382]

Now is the time to mine - Chinese markets have pushed the price per PTS to almost $10/each at btc38.com (.022BTC/each) - large profit to be had. On the same note the reward for signing up under me has been decreased to .25 PTC otherwise I'm losing money for those who sign up under me - people could sign up and then just make accounts and collect 1 PTS each time making a profit + having $10 in cloud mining credit.

2 people have come forth to claim their reward so far.

I went ahead and signed up, thanks for the PTS!

PiTdoQQyMUwak4rpJbNNUsytb36s1MSzUe

I'll be sure to ask ya if I have any questions.

[jt7382]

Sent over the email I used to sign up, along with the amount and name of my droplet - hope that's enough proof.

[siikfo]

I signed up under your ref link
PqvD1N3z1DazXrCQRwDG1DoJLYztwYta75

looks very good so far

[BitshireHashaway]

I signed up under your ref link
PqvD1N3z1DazXrCQRwDG1DoJLYztwYta75

looks very good so far

Glad to here it. I have discussed your proof with you via. PM and have added you to the list to get paid.


[Currently Paid Out: 1 PTS]
[Currently Owed: 0.50 PTS]

[aeddan1]

I'll sign up for digital ocean tomorrow as im waiting for funds to transfer to my paypal. I'll let you know how it goes. 

[lajz99]

With the 4x difficulty increase...maybe no longer profitable at current rates?

[slavo]

i spend some $ with ur referral link; roi is not that good tho; i had 3.82pts for 35$. but i tested the big droplet wich is not as good as the 4 cpu.

my adress :

PkgxQ3ynHhh6ux4Qv3wZDdfqthbXMFSDiW

thanks. I'll give up cloud mining, i start trading pts

[4omen]

Note that if you try and spend $10, I'll give you .25 protoshare ($2.5@currency prices on btc38, which means you can get you first $10 of cloud mining done as a test for 25% off)

*Thank you to Super3 and Belltown for the original guide*


Once you have logged in type in the following code in order:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y git make g++ build-essential libminiupnpc-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libboost-all-dev libdb++-dev libgmp-dev libssl-dev dos2unix

git clone https://github.com/thbaumbach/ptsminer
cd ~/ptsminer/src
make -f makefile.unix
./ptsminer <your PTS address> <number of threads>

Go to http://ptsweb.beeeeer.org/user/<your PTS address> to see how many coins your getting!




Guide for ypool.net coming soon:)

Hello,

thanks for the ToDo, but at the Point "make -f makefile.unix" come a error!?
-bash: make: Command not found

everything before -> no Problems. i make every step from the description.

Please help...



FIXED...

[BitshireHashaway]

Yeah I've had the  make -f makefile.unix error. Try destroying your droplet and creating another one - and then being very careful about entering all the code in correctly, that's the only thing that worked for me.

[aeddan1]

I signed up for digital ocean and am successfully mining on it. Thank you for the guide! If you need proof or something let me know. My pts wallet: PmXTriYDKPyz6PLkwKCKR5X8k9QkpEQhQK

[burnum]

I signed up for digital ocean and am successfully mining on it. Thank you for the guide! If you need proof or something let me know. My pts wallet: PmXTriYDKPyz6PLkwKCKR5X8k9QkpEQhQK

Don't need proof, but can you say what your cost is exactly to mine PTS at the current difficulty?

[BitshireHashaway]

Everyone written down. PTS from ypool confirming now in my wallet and then you'll all be paid. I owe 6 people 0.25 PTS.

[BitshireHashaway]

Everyone who has signed up claiming a reward has now been paid!

[iampingu]

I signed up and paid the 80 dollar thing, though I did it from the other thread :s

[BitshireHashaway]

I signed up and paid the 80 dollar thing, though I did it from the other thread :s

Cool. PM me proof to get paid and also PM me if you have any questions!

[deathmul]

I made account and refill it with 10$

PkfsxRdqGB9hZYpMtJhw2JXLDP7pRgzaaz

Thx;)

[BitshireHashaway]

Deathmul, I need proof you signed up. Especially because anyone hasn't signed up with me in the last ~few hours so if you signed up a while ago, why are you just asking for your PTS?

[BitshireHashaway]

Update: For a limited time if you sign up now, you'll get 0.40 PTS (next 24 hours). Just make sure to record & post here proof of you singing up!

[rampalija]

lol cloud mining, that was  nice idea when this coin came out.

[BitshireHashaway]

lol cloud mining, that was  nice idea when this coin came out.

It worked amazing up until yesterday when the difficulty increased 4x (I was making 300%+ my investment)... now I'm making ~140% my investment, still not bad, but not as good either. But the price of protoshares is also going up a lot, which is making up for losses.

[rampalija]

lol cloud mining, that was  nice idea when this coin came out.

It worked amazing up until yesterday when the difficulty increased 4x (I was making 300%+ my investment)... now I'm making ~140% my investment, still not bad, but not as good either. But the price of protoshares is also going up a lot, which is making up for losses.

and when u stop mining , maybe the price will still continue to rise. Like i did with CGB and i got ROI for my cards in 2.5 months

[aeddan1]

Everyone who has signed up claiming a reward has now been paid!

I can confirm I have been paid. Thank You 

[BitshireHashaway]

[UPDATE]

#1 I have talked to one of the curecoin devs and when the coin is released I plan on working to create a cloud mining guide for it within the first few days. The reward for signing up under me will most likely be split: you will get roughly $2 in curecoin + $2 will also be sent to the red cross, or another popular charity.

#2 I am running a test on digital ocean for ~24 hours for 5 of the $80/month 4 CPU instances. I will let you know how it goes and whether or not it is profitable. The cost for this time will be $14.40, so I want to get 1.75 PTS to start making a profit.

[lajz99]

[UPDATE]
#1 I have talked to one of the curecoin devs and when the coin is released I plan on working to create a cloud mining guide for it within the first few days. The reward for signing up under me will most likely be split: you will get roughly $2 in curecoin + $2 will also be sent to the red cross, or another popular charity.

I'm glad you're planning to do this and support the project as I plan to do so as well with my local hardware, however, I think a 50/50 split may be a little aggressive.  I'm all about charity but at the same time we all want to make sure we make a little coin as well.  I'd definitely be down for a 75/25 split, keep in mind we'd also be folding which is helping to contribute as well.

[kdrop22]

Signed up for the website(DigitalOcean). Thanks for the instructions, very helpful.
   PsUxBrD7JycPRSH75pVrv39LXhnCZAEUga

[BitshireHashaway]

Remember guys. If you have any questions whether or not you sign up under me I'll always answer them.

[BitshireHashaway]

[12 hours only: reward at 0.50 Protoshares for signing up! You get 50% off for trying it out w/ $10!]

[botolo86]

[12 hours only: reward at 0.50 Protoshares for signing up! You get 50% off for trying it out w/ $10!]

Done!

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[botolo86]

I have chosen then 4 CPU / 8 GB as you suggested. How many threads should I use?

[BitshireHashaway]

I've been getting some questions about those using putty ssh to log in - with putty it appears if you close the session, it does stop mining - does anyone else have recommendations / info on this.

[lajz99]

I've been getting some questions about those using putty ssh to log in - with putty it appears if you close the session, it does stop mining - does anyone else have recommendations / info on this.

Just came looking for the same answer!  Lost some valuable time the other night.

[BitshireHashaway]

Guys, be on the look out for a guide to get free mining w/ Windows Azure free trial - free money for a month and then you can shut it down and take your earnings - no cost to you. Relatively newbie friendly (no entering code into a command console, its like setting up a new miner on Windows 7)

[botolo86]

when am I going to receive the 0.50 PTS reward? I look forward to it

[AndrewWilliams]

Guys, be on the look out for a guide to get free mining w/ Windows Azure free trial - free money for a month and then you can shut it down and take your earnings - no cost to you. Relatively newbie friendly (no entering code into a command console, its like setting up a new miner on Windows 7)

Looking forward to it.

[BitshireHashaway]

Cloud mining protoshare test completed: 15% profitability on 5x $80/month servers (probably higher now since Bitcoin's price has literally gone up 50% in the last 24 hours while protoshare's price has only gone down ~25%.

Be on the look out for a primecoin test and the new curecoin guide which hopefully will come out soon (if they ever release the coin... I'm very impatient.) Also remember to sign up for a cloud server under my referral link for profitable rewards + a bonus for signing up (increasing your profitability even more!)

[BitshireHashaway]

when am I going to receive the 0.50 PTS reward? I look forward to it

When you PM me with proof that you signed up under me. Just saying it - especially someone like you who hasn't been around long isn't enough.

[BitshireHashaway]

Guys, be on the look out for a guide to get free mining w/ Windows Azure free trial - free money for a month and then you can shut it down and take your earnings - no cost to you. Relatively newbie friendly (no entering code into a command console, its like setting up a new miner on Windows 7)

Looking forward to it.

Glad to hear it - I'm currently testing mine out along with the setup to make sure it all runs well - don't want to release an untested guide:) - so you can expect that ~Friday/Saturday/Sunday/Monday

[BitshireHashaway]

Thanks for the tut.

How many servers are you running and should we increase this count?

As well, how profitable is this if we're running 5x, in terms of PTS/day.

I was running 5, however now I'm scaling back operations to put more funds into testing Windows Azure (for which you guys should see a guide coming out for soon).

When I was running 5x of the $80/month I was making ~10% profit a day not sure of the exact PTS amount but the cost for the 5x $80/month is $14.40/day so I was getting ~$16/day in PTS. However, much more profit can be had from running 5x $20/month because they are 2 cores vs. the 4 cores of the $80/month - you could probably expect 100% profit on your investment.

[BitshireHashaway]

Thanks for all the wonderful code recommendations guys! Remember if you have any recommendations relating to the code, I would highly appreciate them - or guides for how to do it with different clients (SSH Putty ect.)

[BitshireHashaway]

If anyone is interested in helping me with my Curecoin cloud mining guide - or just in general offering services for Curecoin when it comes out, PM me!

[BitshireHashaway]

Update: I have been getting some people requesting the reward just for signing up for me when they don't actually spend the $10. Please keep in mind you need to spend the $10 to get the reward.

[AndrewWilliams]

Don't use his code! It will steal all your coins!

Huh?

[AceCobra1]

is the ROI better with 2 cores or 4 ? I was told the best place to mine PTS is AWS as they are cheaper ? But I can't find thier price list on the amazon website

[AceCobra1]

I seem to get an error, when I type the

make -f makefile.unix

I get this error:

yasm -f elf64 -o obj/sha512_avx.o intel/sha512_avx.asm
make: yasm: command not found
make:*** [obj/sha512_avx.o] Error 127

Any ideas how to proceed ?

[viriat0]

I seem to get an error, when I type the

make -f makefile.unix

I get this error:

yasm -f elf64 -o obj/sha512_avx.o intel/sha512_avx.asm
make: yasm: command not found
make:*** [obj/sha512_avx.o] Error 127

Any ideas how to proceed ?

Install yasm

cd /usr/local/src/
wget http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/releases/yasm-1.0.1.tar.gz
tar zfvx yasm-1.0.1.tar.gz
cd yasm-1.0.1
./configure
make && make install

[davidm]

I signed up using your referral and spent $10.

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Dave

[flayway]

Once you have logged in type in the following code in order:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y git make g++ build-essential libminiupnpc-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libboost-all-dev libdb++-dev libgmp-dev libssl-dev dos2unix

git clone https://github.com/thbaumbach/ptsminer
cd ~/ptsminer/src

I follow this to here but wher ei can make this ~ i also go allways when try find some key with altgr+2 to some blackscreen where read some text with blue how can go back without boot?

That no need. But problem is when i write make -f makefile.unix there coming next:
yasm -f elf64 -o obj/sha512_avx.o intel/sha512_avx.asm
make: yasm: Command not found
make: *** [obj/sha512_avx.o] Error 127

[davidm]

I follow this to here but wher ei can make this ~ i also go allways when try find some key with altgr+2 to some blackscreen where read some text with blue how can go back without boot?

That no need. But problem is when i write make -f makefile.unix there coming next:
yasm -f elf64 -o obj/sha512_avx.o intel/sha512_avx.asm
make: yasm: Command not found
make: *** [obj/sha512_avx.o] Error 127

I struggled through all of this and I finally got it working. I had the same problem with Yasm. Do this and then try the make command again:

apt-get install build-essential libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-thread-dev zlib1g-dev yasm

[davidm]

I follow this to here but wher ei can make this ~ i also go allways when try find some key with altgr+2 to some blackscreen where read some text with blue how can go back without boot?

That no need. But problem is when i write make -f makefile.unix there coming next:
yasm -f elf64 -o obj/sha512_avx.o intel/sha512_avx.asm
make: yasm: Command not found
make: *** [obj/sha512_avx.o] Error 127

I struggled through all of this and I finally got it working. I had the same problem with Yasm. Do this and then try the make command again:

apt-get install build-essential libboost-system-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-thread-dev zlib1g-dev yasm

Also, if you do that and

make -f makefile.unix

still doesn't work, try this:

make -f makefile.unix.no-chrono

[AceCobra1]

Any ideas how I can find if my mining has actually started? What should my share/h be for a 2 core ?

Also, is there any other websites I could use with a cloud miner but with a Windows type OS so it is more familiar to me that I can use with the ypool ?

With regards to accessing the speed, do I check it in the protoshares wallet in the "collisionspermin" column ?

[davidm]

Thanks to this thread, I am now the proud owner of 0.07566606 PTS. 
What's it worth? Can I retire now? 

[AceCobra1]

Thanks to this thread, I am now the proud owner of 0.07566606 PTS. 
What's it worth? Can I retire now? 

Assuming that each PTS is worth $8, you have made a whooping 60 american cents... I guess you can treat your candy floss but any resultant bill from the dentist might need to be covered by more mining :O

[atlocc]

signed up and spent my 10bucks 
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me too had yasm issue, I suggest to add solution in 1st post

[AceCobra1]

Is there anyway this to run digitalocean with ypool.net ?

I am have almost no luck with beeeer.org

[davidm]

Is there anyway this to run digitalocean with ypool.net ?

I am have almost no luck with beeeer.org

Does ypool pay better? I may try to install it on Digitalocean this afternoon.

[davidm]

Thanks to this thread, I am now the proud owner of 0.07566606 PTS. 
What's it worth? Can I retire now? 

Assuming that each PTS is worth $8, you have made a whooping 60 american cents... I guess you can treat your candy floss but any resultant bill from the dentist might need to be covered by more mining :O

I'm doing this more as a hobby at this point. I'm trying to learn the ropes and understand the math. It's a fascinating concept and I suspect there's some unrealized potential in the Bitcoin concept.

[davidm]

By the way, I did get it to run on Digitalocean, but only with one thread per droplet. More threads cause the program to crash. I'm using 2 1GB droplets with one thread each. Has anyone here succeeded in getting it running with more than one thread?

I'm wondering what configuration gets you the most bang for your buck. Would, for example, a 2GB droplet with 2 threads (assuming it doesn't crash) be more efficient than two 1GB droplets with 1 thread each?

[flayway]

I have now run soon 24hour 1x $20 packet and here is results:
http://ptsweb.beeeeer.org/user/Pbv7ufWTykwhgKrXZTnLAd2FCMX2bNCb9o

Is that really so slowly? 0.02123 PTS - 24hour

[atlocc]

received 0.25 as promised by BitshireHashaway
thank you 

[davidm]

received 0.25 as promised by BitshireHashaway
thank you 

I haven't gotten mine yet.

[anonadeus]

Have you guys tried cloudatcost.com instead of digital ocean. Seems like you get more bang for the buck.

[super3]

Have you guys tried cloudatcost.com instead of digital ocean. Seems like you get more bang for the buck.

Lots of negative reviews. they seem to be overselling

[mcgreed]

make: yasm: command not found

For me, simply:

Code:

apt-get install yasm

fixed that . . .

Q: I'm running ~80-105 cpm on an 8-core debian install at digitalocean . . . how does this compare to the profitability of other schemes listed in this thread?

[EDIT: ~127 cpm]

(If it's more profitable, I'll detail the configuration that achieves it.)

[fiorenzo84]

I signed up for digital ocean and am successfully mining on it. Thank you for the guide!
My pts wallet: PkoiCuLT9fHEFZHKfDRnkjSyeexMwqoJ4s

[dj6230]

I used your refferal code.
PfxCnNGLekbJidVGHV7LFYSX9rmDRJVjAW

[TheRandomGuy]

Does anyone have any Promo Codes for digitalocean?

Also I used your referral code.

Pf3Lm5XJzFwJ7CC5yq2Bpj3ULArZ4oqHx6

[krach]

I also signed up
PcetiK1vvFo47knhyWwSyiqGBRA9UDRSxV

thanks!

[dj6230]

Still havent received anything...

[davidm]

Still havent received anything...

Same here. I sent BitshireHashaway my info.

[GillyPony]

This is very unprofitable at the moment.
It's only for hobbyists. 

I took a look at this user's statistics:
http://ptsweb.beeeeer.org/user/Pbv7ufWTykwhgKrXZTnLAd2FCMX2bNCb9o

I calculated that 0.12703 over 4 days using (2 cores) is the equivalent of 0.4763625 protoshares a month using 1 core.

0.12703/4/2*30 = 0.4763625 .

Now the price is around $11 a protoshare at the moment. This means $5.2399875 mined, for the cost of $5.

Caveats!
The difficulty has jumped sharply. The statistics are from 1 month ago, now it's much more difficult. You won't even breakeven. From what I've read the amount of protoshares a day has more than halved so miners are paying $5 to make $2.50. Furthermore, if you decide to drop out at any time like the one above, you won't even be able to cashout...

In this situation, you have effectively made nothing...

I also looked at the cloudatcost, but it appears it is aimed more at people that are using unlimited bandwidth and running a youtube views bot rather than something that places burden on the CPU.

[2bfree]

is the ROI better with 2 cores or 4 ? I was told the best place to mine PTS is AWS as they are cheaper ? But I can't find thier price list on the amazon website

where can i find instructions to setup mining protoshares on AWS?