How to Cloud Mine Metiscoin while DIFF is low:1. Sign Up for an
SSD cloud server or log in if you already have an account.
2. Fund your account with some credit ($10 recommended)
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 ~ "hashespersec" : 494740, on 8 threads using the 8 Core plan. You can also consider using lower specifications.
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
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.
echo '<USERNAME> ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL' >> /etc/sudoers
9. Change to the new user
10. Relocate into the home directory of the user you have changed into.
11. Create a swap file
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=64M count=16
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile
12.
apt-get update && apt-get install -y git make g++ build-essential libminiupnpc-dev libdb++-dev libgmp-dev libssl-dev dos2unix libboost-all-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev
git clone https://github.com/metiscoin/metiscoin
chmod +x leveldb/build_detect_platform
make -f makefile.unix USE_UPNP=-
After it is compiled:
13.
14.
sudo nano .metiscoin/metiscoin.conf
insert:
listen=1
server=1
daemon=1
rpcuser=YOURUSERNAMEHERE
rpcpassword=YOURPASSWORDHERE
rpcport=1098
gen=1
addnode=162.243.197.118
CTRL+O to save, CTRL+X to quit
15.
cd metiscoin/src && ./metiscoind --daemon && watch './metiscoind getinfo && ./metiscoind getmininginfo && ./metiscoind listaccounts'
--> Mining operations started. You will find your wallet.dat file in ~/.metiscoin
Alternatively, you may use the command
./metiscoind sendtoaddress <metisaddress> <amount>
to send funds to another wallet.