Mining with Windows Azure Cloud Service - 20 cores free for 100 hours

[xbudahx]

I didn't see any posts on this, has anyone else tried this out for fun?

I ran out my free credit with HP Cloud and AWS and decided to try Windows Azure. The prices fluctuate but you get $200 free credit and can get 20 cores going for about 100 hours at no cost.

I am getting about 4 khash/s for each core so 80 khash/s isn't bad for free and taking 15 minutes to set it up.

Once you're signed up, info on creating your VMs is here: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/linux/tutorials/virtual-machine-from-gallery/

Use two 8 core Ubuntu 13.10 instances and one 4 core to get all 20 going.

Connect to each instance and run the below and you're ready to go.


sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential libcurl4-openssl-dev
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/cpuminer/files/pooler-cpuminer-2.3.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
tar xzf pooler*


./minerd --url=stratum+tcp://myminingpool.com:3333 --userpass=my.worker:password

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[r0bd0b]

Your mileage may vary, but I ran two separate Azure trial accounts like this, and a friend ran eight (160 cores!). Neither of us ran into any problems from Microsoft, even though we each used a single credit card for all our trials.

[djsteveoh]

what pool is best for this?

[larue05]

Your mileage may vary, but I ran two separate Azure trial accounts like this, and a friend ran eight (160 cores!). Neither of us ran into any problems from Microsoft, even though we each used a single credit card for all our trials.

Wow, that's an idea I hadn't considered.  I have that $h1tty paypal CC, I think I'll attempt it with that one.

Im guessing you're gonna need 8+ new emails to register right?

[r0bd0b]

Yeah, a different email for each account. Again, YMMV and they may wise up to this and stop allowing multiple accounts with the same card, but I was mining Quark with this method a couple weeks ago without any issues.

[jdndndndx]

What were you mining? Just curious.

[sonicsmith]

I mined Primecoin with this free trial.

$260 free I think. I used it up in 3 days, and make about 1 XPM!

[cozk]

all this for only 80kh/s for 100 hours ??

wow.....

[varunsin]

dont forget to try gogrid.com and rackspace.com

[soulmann]

Your mileage may vary, but I ran two separate Azure trial accounts like this, and a friend ran eight (160 cores!). Neither of us ran into any problems from Microsoft, even though we each used a single credit card for all our trials.

And your friend?

[maardein]

I tried it, but you can't sign up more than two times with the same creditcard. Ip didn't matter (tried through tor/proxy as well).

Oh, and you need to verify your account with a text message, and they will call you to ask whether you need assistance 

[soulmann]

I tried it, but you can't sign up more than two times with the same creditcard. Ip didn't matter (tried through tor/proxy as well).

Oh, and you need to verify your account with a text message, and they will call you to ask whether you need assistance 

And what message  do you see with the third time?

[larue05]

FYI,
  I finally got around to trying this out.  I setup my first 20cores and let em run for about 5 hours.  I then came back and setup my second account and the next 20 cores.  Using the same CC for both accounts.  I got them all online and running.  30min Later I created a 3rd account and got to the payment screen and entered in the CC info.  This time it said it was unable to process the card.

  Which didn't surprise me as someone else here mentioned they could only get 2 accounts running.

  Well low and behold this flagged the card and the first 2 accounts related to it.  In no less than 3minutes the first 2 accounts were completely wiped out and the $200 free trials were instantly revoked.  All the VMs were removed and the first two accounts both now say that "your free trial has already been used"

  Kinda wondering if I'm IP blocked as well.  Tomorrow I'm going to try brand new email accounts with a brand new CC card.

  For what it's worth the 8core 7GB VMs runs just the same as the 8core 64GB VMs as far as k/hash is concerned.  The 8core 7GB VM according to their pricing calculator would get you hashing for 8 days straight before exhausting the $200 trial ammount.

[U1TRA_L0RD]

Im doing the same, but currently mining Protoshares PTS.

I have to VM's which I access via RDP

I will be making another free trial account soon on another site.

[maardein]

I tried it, but you can't sign up more than two times with the same creditcard. Ip didn't matter (tried through tor/proxy as well).

Oh, and you need to verify your account with a text message, and they will call you to ask whether you need assistance 

And what message  do you see with the third time?

Got something like "This payment method is not available at the moment".

[larue05]

I tried it, but you can't sign up more than two times with the same creditcard. Ip didn't matter (tried through tor/proxy as well).

Oh, and you need to verify your account with a text message, and they will call you to ask whether you need assistance 

And what message  do you see with the third time?

Got something like "This payment method is not available at the moment".

That's the same message I got while trying to setup a 3rd account.  And shortly after that the first 2 accounts free trials were canceled and they said, "You have already used your free trial or are ineligible"

[larue05]

another update.

I got back on my first 2 azure accounts and they are back up and activated.  All my VMs still there and cpuminer still installed on them all.  have 40cores all mining again now.  So I have no clue what was happening last night with them being rejected.

Account 3 is still rejecting the CC used from the first 2 however.

[ashik4u]

How much Bitcoin can be earned in 100 hours?

[5w00p]

How much Bitcoin can be earned in 100 hours?

Alternative coins that are not mineable by ASICs are mined by people with computers, not bitcoin.

[CryptKeeper]

Have anyone tried slicify.com?

Seems to be the cheapest around, but everytime I try to sign up, it fails.