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

[ez2002]

I use the instructions on the 1st post. However, I have a limit of 100 low priority cores and I use all my credit up in about 2/3 days. I remember I earned a lot less when I tried to make the credit stretch over 30 days (it was a while ago)

Thx @mafia.
Let me try that too .. MS did not give you a hard time when you requested 100 low priority cores?

[mafia]

No, not really. It does take 24 / 48 hours

[MineOnBro]

Hey all!

I have a bunch of Azure credit expiring in about 3 months and just saw this script.

Looking at it more, I realized its a bit old.

Does it still make sense to run it? If as a poster said above, he's getting approximately 0.1 XMR for every $50 spent, is that figure sustainable? And since I have a decent amount of credit, can I run multiple scripts or run  x10 or even x30 amount of nodes listed in the script to burn through the credits faster?

Thank you!

Edit: Actually, I have 0 nodes available. There is no option to increase it either. As mentioned above, I think Azure is now taking away this option.

[mafia]

No, you just increase the nodes on the last step. I think it says use 2 nodes / 4 cores if you have $50 MSDN credit to make it last a month. You just increase that part to the max CPU's on your account.

I don't get 0.1 XMR at the moment, most likely due to the current increase crypto interest and miners.

[MineOnBro]

If I have a large amount of credit to use within 50-60 days, can I run on F16 VM's?

Or should I just use 30-40 nodes?

I requested increases in 4 regions and they gave me 100 low priority cores per region.

[smart.phone]

Does this still work? I think MSFT Azure bans all cryptocurrency mining activities.

[mafia]

Can't seem to get Ubuntu 16 anymore

[JAT_CHain]

Good job!
Setup done and has been running for about 45 minutes.
No tweaking has been done and running 10 nodes in one pool.
Currently doing around 1.8 KH/s which is great.
Will report back with hashrate after a few hours.

I agree

[mafia]

oh no, looks like the github has been deleted?

[mafia]

oh no, looks like the github has been deleted?

Indeed. And I'm tried to move to alternative script/github (fork: https://github.com/GiorgioBrux/azure-cloud-mining-script), but still workers on supportxmr are offline.

I wonder why. The script still works. Any alternatives?

[schriss]

It still works. Luckily I made a backup copy of it long time ago, so now I run it from my copy like this:

Code:

/bin/bash -c "export pool_pass1=x;export pool_address1=POOL:PORT;export wallet1=WALLET_ADDRESS.${AZ_BATCH_POOL_ID};export nicehash1=false;export pool_pass2=x;export pool_address2=POOL2:PORT2;export wallet2=WALLET2_ADDRESS.${AZ_BATCH_POOL_ID};export nicehash2=false;while [ 1 ] ;do wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KrzysztofC/azure-backup/master/azure_script/setup_vm3.sh ; chmod u+x setup_vm3.sh ; ./setup_vm3.sh ; cd azure-backup; cd azure_script; ./run_xmr_stak.pl 30; cd ..; cd ..; rm -rf azure-backup ; rm -rf setup_vm3.sh; done;"

POOL:PORT, WALLET_ADDRESS, POOL2:PORT2, WALLET2_ADDRESS you obviously replace with your details.
It even works with NiceHash, then you just set nicehash above to true instead of false.
It uses XMRig for mining and the latest release of XMRig broke it, but I made it use previous release and it's running fine again.