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

[b4dminer4568]

At least i give credit to everyone in my tutorial and its a hell of a lot more detailed. Just saying

[yuriy128]

I am curious why not to place a call for donations for miner developers whose software you are pointing in the tutorial?

yvg1900

Provide your bitcoin address and I will def add it to the main thread!

[yuriy128]

At least i give credit to everyone in my tutorial and its a hell of a lot more detailed. Just saying

No you are not "just saying", you are "just jealous"... donating is optional 

I put this tutorial out there for people to make some money, not to get rich myself.

Your comment is childish.

[yvg1900]

They are included in the readme.txt in miner archives (for your verification).

Dropbox is periodically down because somebody periodically DDoSing it. There is alternate location:

https://mega.co.nz/#F!h0tkXSxZ!f62uoUXogkxQmP2xO8Ib-g

Donation addresses:

PTS: PZxsEQoiMeB6tHcW2ZySBEiCPio1WkxbEL
XPM: AW2388DEWNEfMH4rP9kcj9yKcMq1QywYT4
DTC: D6PmUogMigWvXurgFTqm5VLxQeVpXdYQj3
LTC: Lby4YjhcAxhmbsdHFb4nYydrwGoiJezZt1
BTC: 1FxekeK5La7AuF3oxiLzPKnjXyLMrux6VT

Double-check in readme.txt before adding.

yvg1900

[chevdor]

How long do you think it takes to solo mine with 15-17 collisionspermin ?

[smooth]

Ha. "pending-evaluation" turned into "capacity-oversubscribed".

You guys are driving the instances prices up where nobody can make any money. Cut it out!

[yuriy128]

They are included in the readme.txt in miner archives (for your verification).

Dropbox is periodically down because somebody periodically DDoSing it. There is alternate location:

https://mega.co.nz/#F!h0tkXSxZ!f62uoUXogkxQmP2xO8Ib-g

Donation addresses:

PTS: PZxsEQoiMeB6tHcW2ZySBEiCPio1WkxbEL
XPM: AW2388DEWNEfMH4rP9kcj9yKcMq1QywYT4
DTC: D6PmUogMigWvXurgFTqm5VLxQeVpXdYQj3
LTC: Lby4YjhcAxhmbsdHFb4nYydrwGoiJezZt1
BTC: 1FxekeK5La7AuF3oxiLzPKnjXyLMrux6VT

Double-check in readme.txt before adding.

yvg1900

Added, Thx!

[EntropyExtropy]

Just got a call from an amazon rep. It seems that they are taking notice.

Nothing major was said, but they wanted to confirm my identity and that my card was, in fact, my card.

[HCarvalho]

Will AWS force all who use the free credits to pay for the server usage at full prices? or spot instances prices?

[NUFCrichard]

Will AWS force all who use the free credits to pay for the server usage at full prices? or spot instances prices?

That seems like it would be changing the prices after the use.  If a spot request is made, limited to 0.4, then they can't choose to charge you $2 just because!
I imagine they will start to ban people and the prices are rising.  That said, maybe they are making loads of money from it!

[HCarvalho]

and if someone uses two or more accounts?

[NUFCrichard]

breaking the terms of use, basically stealing? Not sure what they would do, but you can only blame yourself if you end up out of pocket.

[HCarvalho]

any idea when the november bill is delivered/Closed?

[hsquared]

I noticed that you said it can use about 19 hours of 20 cc2.8xlarge servers, and seems your tutorial is for only one server, so we should do the same for all other servers, right?

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!

[Digicoiner]

any idea when the november bill is delivered/Closed?

If you entered your credit card details then the card should be automatically charged.  When? I don't know.

[yuriy128]

I noticed that you said it can use about 19 hours of 20 cc2.8xlarge servers, and seems your tutorial is for only one server, so we should do the same for all other servers, right?

Read steps 5-8 you have to basically clone your instance and create 19 more just like it!

[sickhouse]

404. Is it dead?

[paperwallets]

...

[AceCobra1]

I think they have removed the offer now right ?

[yuriy128]

Looks like free credit is over