Free $100 Amazon EC2 Credit for CPU mining Photoshares or anything else...

[yuriy128]

Hi All,

I just tried this yesterday and it worked: http://aws.amazon.com/big-data/powerof60/
You will get an e-mail within 5 minutes with the Redemption code for Amazon ews $100 credits.

You can use it for example for about 19 hours of 20 cc2.8xlarge servers mining Photoshares (PTS)
Current Spot Price in Oregon for cc2.8xlarge which is a 32 core box is @ 0.253 / hour
Spot Price in Virginia for cc2.8xlarge is @ 0.27/hour

Here's how to quickly mine some photoshares:

1. Create a Spot Request for Amazon Linux AMI (HVM) 2013.09.1, select Compute Optimized cc2.8xlarge instance.
Put in your maximum price of 0.253. (Don't put in more than the current spot price, as you will automatically raise the price for the next time you want to
create a spot request/ or someone else )
I like to check the Persistent Request box so that it will try again periodically if it's not able to fullfill your request.

2. After you request get's fullfilled( usually within 5 minutes) connect to your server:
  

ssh -i your_key.pem root@xx.xx.xx.xx

3. Now, let's set up Photoshares with yPool:
You have to get the latest linux miner from yvg1900 from https://mega.co.nz/#F!h0tkXSxZ!f62uoUXogkxQmP2xO8Ib-g
You should get core2 version: jhprotominer-yvg1900-M7ff-linux64-core2.tgz
I uploaded it to my dropbox and copied it from there, but if you are paranoid, you can do it yourself

wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/vfzpxjk0wexu82b/jhprotominer-yvg1900-M7ff-linux64-core2.tgz

Next, we need to extract it:

tar zxvf jhprotominer-yvg1900-M7ff-linux64-core2.tgz

Now, let's cd into (cc2.x8large box has 60 GB of ram, with 32 cores, enough for 1GB of ram per mining thread...

cd jhprotominer-yvg1900-M7ff-linux64-core2
cd linux64-core2-1024M

You can then run the miner:

./jhprotominer -O ypool.net -u username.worker -p password -t 32

4. Make miner start after reboot...

sudo crontab -e

Add the following line to crontab:

@reboot /PATH_to_JHProtominer/jhprotominer -O ypool.net -u username.worker -p password -t 32

Save the file with ":x" and you are set.

5. Now the easy part: create an image of your running instance: select instance -> Actions -> Create Image
6. After AMI is created, you can pick it when you make Spot Requests.
7. Spawn 19 more instances and watch your yPool shares go nuts...
8. Turn off your servers in about 19 hours...

Hope this works for you.

If it does, please drop me some BTC @ 1GU6NwUU5tS8doqfwgEfZR4mfTU7fqo4XF
PTS @ PiFDaxqxysKrxKeFbj2HEeGQ8ifvigmfco

Please also donate to yvg1900 for his awesome miner:
PTS: PZxsEQoiMeB6tHcW2ZySBEiCPio1WkxbEL
XPM: AW2388DEWNEfMH4rP9kcj9yKcMq1QywYT4
DTC: D6PmUogMigWvXurgFTqm5VLxQeVpXdYQj3
LTC: Lby4YjhcAxhmbsdHFb4nYydrwGoiJezZt1
BTC: 1FxekeK5La7AuF3oxiLzPKnjXyLMrux6VT

Thanks!

[LiteMine]

How do I get off the Free tier? Can only do micro's in Free.

[yuriy128]

When you request Spot Instances, there's a checkbox that says Free Tier Only, uncheck that.

[yuriy128]

LiteMine, did the credit work for you?

[shoaib20695]

how amazon service will help in protoshare mining?i didnt understand this post

[yuriy128]

Photoshares are mined via CPU only at this time. You can rent Amazon EC2 servers to do this, for free

[shoaib20695]

oh that is cool man..good to know that people like you are helping other ..
i signed for amazon but no email received yet..how much protoshares can be mined with it...actually what is protoshares..lol...im mining other altcoins at the moment

[shoaib20695]

ok now i received the email..what to do next..sign up or what?how to start?

[shoaib20695]

i didnt understand the procedure clearly??whats ssh -i your_key.pem root@xx.xx.xx.xx

[yuriy128]

You will have to sign up if you don't have the account yet.

the ssh stuff is for connecting to your instance

[shoaib20695]

oh im siging up now..just give me few minutes..be around

[Quartx]

Eta profits? I never understood the lingo used in mining protoshares, any explanation cause i pretty much only understand GHZ haha

[yuriy128]

as far as profits, mileage may vary. I mined around 20PTS coins over 18 hours...
at current exchange rate: 20 * 0.01 = 0.2 BTC or ~ $160 at current exchange rate...

[NUFCrichard]

as far as profits, mileage may vary. I mined around 20PTS coins over 18 hours...
at current exchange rate: 20 * 0.01 = 0.2 BTC or ~ $160 at current exchange rate...

If for $100 credit you mined $160 worth of PTS, why have you stopped!?

[TrippyPippy]

Hi,

When adding the reboot command , how do you find out the path to jhprotominer ?

Regards

[yuriy128]

go in the folder and type "pwd"

[JL0z]

as far as profits, mileage may vary. I mined around 20PTS coins over 18 hours...
at current exchange rate: 20 * 0.01 = 0.2 BTC or ~ $160 at current exchange rate...

If for $100 credit you mined $160 worth of PTS, why have you stopped!?

I suppose that to continue you need to actually pay to use the servers, then the return will be less depending on how much the servers cost to run.

[yuriy128]

as far as profits, mileage may vary. I mined around 20PTS coins over 18 hours...
at current exchange rate: 20 * 0.01 = 0.2 BTC or ~ $160 at current exchange rate...

If for $100 credit you mined $160 worth of PTS, why have you stopped!?

I suppose that to continue you need to actually pay to use the servers, then the return will be less depending on how much the servers cost to run.

Yes, i don't think i want to risk that much since PTS/BTC price still flunctuates a lot. On Free credit I don't care

[robozombie]

Hi All,

I just tried this yesterday and it worked: http://aws.amazon.com/big-data/powerof60/
You will get an e-mail within 5 minutes with the Redemption code for Amazon ews $100 credits.

You can use it for example for about 19 hours of 20 cc2.8xlarge servers mining Photoshares (PTS)
Current Spot Price in Oregon for cc2.8xlarge which is a 32 core box is @ 0.253 / hour
Spot Price in Virginia for cc2.8xlarge is @ 0.27/hour

Here's how to quickly mine some photoshares:

1. Create a Spot Request for Amazon Linux AMI (HVM) 2013.09.1, select Compute Optimized cc2.8xlarge instance.
Put in your maximum price of 0.253. (Don't put in more than the current spot price, as you will automatically raise the price for the next time you want to
create a spot request/ or someone else )
I like to check the Persistent Request box so that it will try again periodically if it's not able to fullfill your request.

2. After you request get's fullfilled( usually within 5 minutes) connect to your server:
   

ssh -i your_key.pem root@xx.xx.xx.xx

3. Now, let's set up Photoshares with yPool:
You have to get the latest linux miner from yvg1900 from https://mega.co.nz/#F!h0tkXSxZ!f62uoUXogkxQmP2xO8Ib-g
You should get core2 version: jhprotominer-yvg1900-M7ff-linux64-core2.tgz
I uploaded it to my dropbox and copied it from there, but if you are paranoid, you can do it yourself

wget https://www.dropbox.com/s/vfzpxjk0wexu82b/jhprotominer-yvg1900-M7ff-linux64-core2.tgz

Next, we need to extract it:

tar zxvf jhprotominer-yvg1900-M7ff-linux64-core2.tgz

Now, let's cd into (cc2.x8large box has 60 GB of ram, with 32 cores, enough for 1GB of ram per mining thread...

cd jhprotominer-yvg1900-M7ff-linux64-core2
cd linux64-core2-1024M

You can then run the miner:

./jhprotominer -O ypool.net -u username.worker -p password -t 32

4. Make miner start after reboot...

sudo crontab -e

Add the following line to crontab:

@reboot /PATH_to_JHProtominer/jhprotominer -O ypool.net -u username.worker -p password -t 32

Save the file with ":x" and you are set.

5. Now the easy part: create an image of your running instance: select instance -> Actions -> Create Image
6. After AMI is created, you can pick it when you make Spot Requests.
7. Spawn 19 more instances and watch your yPool shares go nuts...
8. Turn off your servers in about 19 hours...

Hope this works for you.

If it does, please drop me some BTC @ 1GU6NwUU5tS8doqfwgEfZR4mfTU7fqo4XF
PTS @ PiFDaxqxysKrxKeFbj2HEeGQ8ifvigmfco

Thanks!

Hey, thanks for sharing this. I wonder, though, about the chrontab line, how did you set it up (I mean the directory)? And the other thing: how do you turn off your servers? Thanks!

[Thrash]

I am finding shares but they do not show up on ypool under my account for some reason. What am I missing? Any ideas?

Never mind, found a typo.