MOLECULE | CPU Cloud Mining | VPS | 600 khash/s+ [MOL]

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Molecule is a CPU minable alt coin based on Quark, which was in turn based on SifCoin.  The coin uses a combination of algorithms that makes it resistant to GPU and ASIC mining. It was announced on 14 December 2013. Read more about it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=371576.0

1. Sign Up for an SSD cloud server or log in if you already have an account.

2. Fund your account with some credit

3. Click 'Create Droplet' to get your instance running

4. Select the specifications you wish to mine on as well as the newest Ubuntu x64 as your image. You get more than 600kh/s on 8 threads using the 8 Core plan. You can also consider creating several smaller ones.

5. Your username and password will be emailed to you within 55 seconds

6. Log in to your droplet via SSH

7. Change the root password to something you can actually remember
    

Code:

passwd

8. Create a new user. Follow the prompts after issuing the command. Only username and password are necessary, you may leave the other fields blank if you wish.

Code:

adduser <USERNAME>

Code:

echo '<USERNAME>    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL' >> /etc/sudoers

9. Change to the new user

Code:

su <USERNAME>

10.  Relocate into the home directory of the user you have changed into.

Code:

cd

11. Create a swap file

Code:

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=64M count=16
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile

12. Download minerd, configure and compile

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential libcurl4-openssl-dev zip

Code:

sudo wget http://146.185.130.131/cpuminer-quark.zip
sudo unzip cpuminer-quark.zip
cd cpuminer-quark
sudo CFLAGS="-O3 -msse2" ./configure
sudo make
sudo strip minerd

13. connect your new miner (launch from the same dir as you compiled)

Code:

./minerd -a quark -o stratum+tcp://mol.forkpool.com:8372 -u YourMOLAddress

14. it should look something like this

8 miner threads started, using 'quark' algorithm.
Starting Stratum on stratum+tcp://mol.forkpool.com:8372
[2013-12-19 08:25:43] Stratum detected new block
[2013-12-19 08:25:43] thread 1: 751481 hashes, 83.73 khash/s
[2013-12-19 08:25:43] thread 5: 723193 hashes, 80.58 khash/s
[2013-12-19 08:25:43] thread 0: 746494 hashes, 83.18 khash/s
[2013-12-19 08:25:43] thread 7: 746890 hashes, 83.22 khash/s
[2013-12-19 08:25:43] thread 4: 753759 hashes, 83.98 khash/s
[2013-12-19 08:25:43] thread 3: 749414 hashes, 83.50 khash/s
[2013-12-19 08:25:43] thread 2: 723130 hashes, 80.57 khash/s
[2013-12-19 08:25:43] thread 6: 748984 hashes, 83.45 khash/s
[2013-12-19 08:26:00] thread 0: 1439404 hashes, 83.19 khash/s
[2013-12-19 08:26:02] accepted: 3/4 (75.00%), 666.66 khash/s (yay!!!)
...
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If you wish to run this in your background so it doesn't close once you drop the SSH conncetion, go ahead and install "screen"

Code:

sudo apt-get install screen

launch screen

Code:

screen

press space, launch the miner

Code:

./minerd -a quark -o stratum+tcp://mol.forkpool.com:8372 -u YourMOLAddress

to restore the session when logging back in, use

Code:

screen -r

All done. Good luck and have fun. Current block value 784.0000000000001MOL

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[Wipeout2097]

Not to litter this thread and the nice guide, but please ditch that "sudo" and "Being logged in as the root user is not recommended for various reasons, so you want to create a non-privileged user."

Damn I hate the Ubuntu "community" 

[KoningKaas]

For the price of one 4core (80$) u can make 4 x 2 core (20$) giving u double the CPU's for the same price pretty much.

Also a swapfile is not needed on these systems, only when compiling on 512mb<

And u can just use ./configure i think, its what i do and it automatically selects AVX etc if its supported.

making 4 20$ ones will usually give about 200Khash per droplet, so 800Khash total.

[KoningKaas]

  haha.


Only thing when making multiple droplets is that they can have different speeds, it depends on who youre sharing it with.
I usually fire up a few, keep the best ones and recreate the others for better hashing speeds.

220Khash is the most i got on a 2CPU droplet.

[moleculecoin]

Note that DigitalOcean Ubuntu's have no firewall rules and are wide open by default...  it complicates the guide but after spinning up the VPS I would go follow one of the tut's to setup iptables to allow the MOL and ssh traffic and drop everything else.

[instacalm]

Judging from my personal testing I recommend everybody to set up the instances on New York 2. I'm getting the best performance on this location. Currently mining with 4x 8 CPU instances. Fun! It's good to see coins flowing in

[note235]

much thanks guys!

[instacalm]

much thanks guys!

Keep up the mining operations! ;]

[note235]

much thanks guys!

Keep up the mining operations! ;]

definitely
running on all my pc in conjunction with gpu mining

[killerw]

Where did you sell?