Azure Free Credits for Mining Monero/Other CN-Coins. Super-Easy&Super-Profitable

[buonleloi]

what happens when there is no more monero to mine?

XZC, ZOI ....

Many CPU coin still there

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[JaredKaragen]

just an after thought;  if you are worried about them monitoring your traffic to known mining sites;  just use a VPN service for any of its connections

[VaynardW]

I can only mine for several days and got my subscription disabled, both on my free trial account and pay as you go

Hi VaynardW,
that's strange. I've been running my VMs without break for several months now, and so far there was no problem. I have also signed up for a free trial account (independent from the azure-account linked to my MSDN-subscription) and i could use up the 200$ free credits without any problem.

You write you "got your subscription disabled". Are you talking about a MSDN-subscription or about the azure-account? And what do you mean by "disabled"? Is your account gone completely (i.e. you can't login anymore) or did MS just stop all running VMs?

I was talking about the azure account, the VMs defintely stopped, I can still login, the batch service is still there, but it displays "No Access" when i try to access Pools menu, I also cant add a new pools. and with the subscription disabled, i cant choose any subscription to create a new group

I'll try the support today

[AzureCloudMiningScript]

I was talking about the azure account, the VMs defintely stopped, I can still login, the batch service is still there, but it displays "No Access" when i try to access Pools menu, I also cant add a new pools. and with the subscription disabled, i cant choose any subscription to create a new group

I'll try the support today

Thanks for the update. When you get a reply from the support, please share it here.

[AzureCloudMiningScript]

just an after thought;  if you are worried about them monitoring your traffic to known mining sites;  just use a VPN service for any of its connections

Yes, that's a good idea. I'm putting this on my to-do-list...

[buonleloi]

just an after thought;  if you are worried about them monitoring your traffic to known mining sites;  just use a VPN service for any of its connections

Yes, that's a good idea. I'm putting this on my to-do-list...

Hi,

Any update about WokerName yet ?

It's hard to know which account is running low hash.

http://prntscr.com/jigxn1

http://prntscr.com/jigxn1

[AzureCloudMiningScript]

Any update about WokerName yet ?

I added a paragraph about the worker-ID in the initial post. As always: if you have trouble getting it to work just post a message here.

[rdluffy]

It's impossible to find how to obtain an Azure account with 150 usd credits

[vuli1]

just an after thought;  if you are worried about them monitoring your traffic to known mining sites;  just use a VPN service for any of its connections

Yes, that's a good idea. I'm putting this on my to-do-list...

Hi,

Any update about WokerName yet ?

It's hard to know which account is running low hash.



http://prntscr.com/jigxn1

workername... try adding ".worker" after your wallet address in config script
e.g. 4999aeniCU9Ug67vs7yvyJTSkxVUZRirUYUerT66fqzoYMhiShFLBqZHmFxmPD6oABafM5cVKc77yyy yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.worker

or change password.

[AzureCloudMiningScript]

workername... try adding ".worker" after your wallet address in config script
e.g. 4999aeniCU9Ug67vs7yvyJTSkxVUZRirUYUerT66fqzoYMhiShFLBqZHmFxmPD6oABafM5cVKc77yyy yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.worker
or change password.

Thanks for trying to help, but in this case it works a little different. Have a look at the first post in this thread, i already put a description how to set the worker-ID there.

[buonleloi]

Great work !

Is it possible to get workername as same as pool name or subscription ID/name ?

Or even set a name same as vm name like this :

[AzureCloudMiningScript]

Great work !
Is it possible to get workername as same as pool name or subscription ID/name ?
Or even set a name same as vm name like this :

Initially i also thought of doing something with the VM-name. But would that really be useful? Sometimes the nodes get switched off (cheap low-priority-nodes), azure might assign a new name to the node when it comes back. Also, the names do not seem to indicate the pool the node belongs to.
Using the pool-name sounds like a better idea. I'll have to research whether the script can actually somehow get access to the name of the pool. I'll have a look at it (it might take some more time until i can implement this).

[AzureCloudMiningScript]

Update: After reading this post (https://www.reddit.com/r/MoneroMining/comments/8jbaqd/psa_use_backup_pools_in_your_mining_config/) i added a backup-server for supportXMR in my script-generator at https://azurecloudminingscript.github.io/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html
In order to take advantage of the backup-server you'll have to re-generate your startup-script, replace the old startup-script in the azure-settings and re-start your pool. Existing startup-scripts will of course continue to work. There is no immediate need to act, this is just a precautionary measure.

If you want to use a different pool than supportXMR.com you can use my advanced script-generator at https://azurecloudminingscript.github.io/Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency_detailed.html. There you can manually define your backup-server.

[AzureCloudMiningScript]

A weird coincidence... apparently supportXMR.com is under a DDoS-Attack right now:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MoneroMining/comments/8kksag/whats_up_with_supportxmr/
However, as far as i can tell really only the dashboard of the pool is affected, the mining is still going on normally. This also means that adding a backup-server as suggested in my previous post will not change anything (from the point of view of the mining-software everything is ok since the shares get accepted and it will continue just working with the primary server).

[AzureCloudMiningScript]

Ok, the attack on supportXMR seems to be over. As far as i can see things work normally again.

[buonleloi]

Ok, the attack on supportXMR seems to be over. As far as i can see things work normally again.

How many hash did you get already ?

I'm moving to MPH, seem better luck ...

[AzureCloudMiningScript]

How many hash did you get already ?
I'm moving to MPH, seem better luck ...

I am satisfied with the performance of supportXMR. Since i am just burning my free credits from azure i don't need to optimize for the last few %.
But then... how much better is Mining Pool Hub? Is it really worthwhile switching?

(MPH = Mining Pool Hub ?)

[buonleloi]

I think it's about 2-3% better, enough to cover the script fee, LOL,

I'm also use MPH with XZC and ETC, so auto-exchange support with MPH work great in some cases ...

[AzureCloudMiningScript]

Is it possible to get workername as same as pool name or subscription ID/name ?

Update: There is now an option to use the pool-name as the worker-ID. I have updated the quickstart-instructions to do this automatically, i.e. if you create a new startup-script with the quickstart-instructions your miner will use the azure-pool's name as the worker-id.
 
If you are using my detailed-script, there are some variables which let you configure the worker-id any way you want:

• ${AZ_BATCH_POOL_ID}    : The name of the azure-pool used
• ${AZ_BATCH_ACCOUNT_NAME}    : The name of the azure-batch-account used
• ${AZ_BATCH_NODE_ID}   : The name of the azure-pool-node. Typically this is a complicated name with some special characters. Use at your own risk!

Just place one of these variables where you would normally put the worker-id, and when the miner is started it will get replaced with the corresponding content. You can have a look at the script generated by the quickstart-instructions to see an example for using the variable ${AZ_BATCH_POOL_ID}.

[AzureCloudMiningScript]

Info about SUMO:
In case you haven't already heard it, the SUMO-devs have decided to rebrand their coin. The new name will be RYO. See here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/sumokoin/comments/8kgzpf/sumokoins_new_branding_introducing_ryo/
https://www.reddit.com/r/sumokoin/comments/8ltt57/rebranding_update_1/
 
What do i think of RYO? Well, for me at least RYO will always be that guy from Street Fighter...