How to mine CPU coins for free

[Adamlm]

Here is a quick guide. You need basic+ linux skills. You will get from 0.2 to 1.5 khash/sec completely free.

1. Join Amazon EC2. They offer free tier for new users for 12 months:

As part of AWS’s Free Usage Tier, new AWS customers can get started with Amazon EC2 for free. Upon sign-up, new AWS customers receive the following EC2 services each month for one year:

    750 hours of EC2 running Linux/Unix Micro instance usage
    750 hours of Elastic Load Balancing plus 15 GB data processing
    10 GB of Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) plus 1 million IOs and 1 GB snapshot storage
    15 GB of bandwidth out aggregated across all AWS services
    1 GB of Regional Data Transfer

So as a new user you will get 750 hours of EC2 running Linux/Unix Micro instance usage.
And what is a micro linux instance?

Micro Instance 613 MB of memory, up to 2 ECUs (for short periodic bursts), EBS storage only, 32-bit or 64-bit platform

Not much, it will mine with 0.2 to 1.5 khash/sec. But you'll get it for free.

2. Launch a new micro linux instance, donwload and run cpuminer. Mine for free. This might be useful for step 2:

Code:

sudo yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools"
sudo yum -y install git libcurl-devel python-devel screen rsync

git clone https://github.com/ArtForz/cpuminer.git
cd cpuminer
./autogen.sh
./configure
make -j
nohup ./minerd --algo scrypt -s 6 --threads 2 --url http://yourpool --userpass user:pass

Enjoy.
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[Adamlm]

yes, I have edited it at the same time, it should be artfortz.

Thanks for the tip for confgiure. I am getting up to 1.41 khash/s now, almost the same as my own i5:

[2011-11-02 21:14:38] LONGPOLL detected new block
[2011-11-02 21:14:38] thread 1: 1664 hashes, 0.03 khash/sec
[2011-11-02 21:14:38] thread 0: 525 hashes, 0.03 khash/sec
[2011-11-02 21:15:06] thread 0: 1647 hashes, 0.06 khash/sec
[2011-11-02 21:15:07] thread 1: 1581 hashes, 0.06 khash/sec
[2011-11-02 21:15:08] thread 0: 3696 hashes, 1.41 khash/sec
[2011-11-02 21:15:10] thread 1: 3385 hashes, 1.22 khash/sec
[2011-11-02 21:15:10] thread 0: 2281 hashes, 1.16 khash/sec
[2011-11-02 21:15:10] PROOF OF WORK RESULT: true (yay!!!)
[2011-11-02 21:15:12] thread 1: 2707 hashes, 1.13 khash/sec
[2011-11-02 21:15:12] PROOF OF WORK RESULT: true (yay!!!)

[frisco]

I get much lower results and haven't found a share yet, are you using x32 or x64 instances?

[SgtSpike]

So you get 1.5 KH/s for 750 hours, which is equivalent to 1.125MH/s for 1 hour, or about 0.00004166 BTC.

I seriously hope no one wastes their time with this!  It's a nice thought OP, but it really isn't worth anyone's time.

[MaxSan]

So you get 1.5 KH/s for 750 hours, which is equivalent to 1.125MH/s for 1 hour, or about 0.00004166 BTC.

I seriously hope no one wastes their time with this!  It's a nice thought OP, but it really isn't worth anyone's time.

Its for mining scrypt and Litecoin not BTC

[SgtSpike]

So you get 1.5 KH/s for 750 hours, which is equivalent to 1.125MH/s for 1 hour, or about 0.00004166 BTC.

I seriously hope no one wastes their time with this!  It's a nice thought OP, but it really isn't worth anyone's time.

Its for mining scrypt and Litecoin not BTC

My bad, didn't see what subforum this was in.

[Remember remember the 5th of November]

I am writing because i've already tried them.

Micro instance has 1 core, or when i compiled, just 0.50kh/s. And i doubt that i can launch 30 or more FREE instances.

I've also tried the CLuster Computer Quadruple extra large which is an 8 core, 16 thread Intel Xeon which does 2.77(MAX) kh/s per core

So no, you do not get 1.5kh/s just 0.50

And if anyone wants, here is something i use to automatically download all dependencies plus the miner, download it, configure it, and compile it

apt-get update;apt-get install -y libcurl4-openssl-dev;apt-get install -y git;apt-get install -y make;apt-get install -y autoconf;git clone https://github.com/Lolcust/Tenebrix-miner.git;mv Tenebrix-miner /opt/;cd /opt/Tenebrix-miner/;aclocal;./autogen.sh;CFLAGS="-O3 -Wall -g -ftree-loop-distribution -fstrict-aliasing -fstrict-overflow -march=native -mtune=native -msse2"

That is what i do when i first SSH to the new EC2 instance. It's fast, and you barely waste time.

[Bobnova]

You need all the SSEs in there, not just SSE2.  It makes a huge difference.

[Remember remember the 5th of November]

You need all the SSEs in there, not just SSE2.  It makes a huge difference.

Thats why i do -march=native -mtune=native which enables them all, -msse2 is just a habit. In any case, ALL i got and i mean from ALL the optimization i tried, just 0.50kh/s

And i also use a 64bit linux, which is supposed to be faster than 32bit OS

Not to mention that there is extreme load balancing in the micro instance. You mine at full speed for a few seconds and then you get reduced to 0.02 or less KH/s

[btc_artist]

What CPU do you have? 

FWIW, I used:

Code:

CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O3 -Wall -msse2 -msse3 -msse4 -msse4.1 -msse4.2"

and I'm getting ~3 k/s

[phorensic]

You need all the SSEs in there, not just SSE2.  It makes a huge difference.

Thats why i do -march=native -mtune=native which enables them all, -msse2 is just a habit. In any case, ALL i got and i mean from ALL the optimization i tried, just 0.50kh/s

And i also use a 64bit linux, which is supposed to be faster than 32bit OS

Not to mention that there is extreme load balancing in the micro instance. You mine at full speed for a few seconds and then you get reduced to 0.02 or less KH/s

Above you quoted an install line for Tenebrix.  This thread is about Litecoin.  Is it possible your shitty Tenebrix miner is to blame for your speeds?

[Remember remember the 5th of November]

You need all the SSEs in there, not just SSE2.  It makes a huge difference.

Thats why i do -march=native -mtune=native which enables them all, -msse2 is just a habit. In any case, ALL i got and i mean from ALL the optimization i tried, just 0.50kh/s

And i also use a 64bit linux, which is supposed to be faster than 32bit OS

Not to mention that there is extreme load balancing in the micro instance. You mine at full speed for a few seconds and then you get reduced to 0.02 or less KH/s

Above you quoted an install line for Tenebrix.  This thread is about Litecoin.  Is it possible your shitty Tenebrix miner is to blame for your speeds?

The tenebrix miner is the EXACT copy of cpu-miner...tenebrix,fairbrix,litecoin ALL use SCRYPT algo.

Also, with that exact same miner, i get over 3KH/s per core on my 64bit Virtual machine on my own computer.

[phorensic]

Just got mine working and yeah it's only 0.40-0.50 kh/s and obvious it's only a single vcore when you try 2 threads.  Oh well, it's a virtual machine shared with thousands of users.

[Remember remember the 5th of November]

yes, I have edited it at the same time, it should be artfortz.

Thanks for the tip for confgiure. I am getting up to 1.41 khash/s now, almost the same as my own i5:

[2011-11-02 21:14:38] LONGPOLL detected new block
[2011-11-02 21:14:38] thread 1: 1664 hashes, 0.03 khash/sec
[2011-11-02 21:14:38] thread 0: 525 hashes, 0.03 khash/sec
[2011-11-02 21:15:06] thread 0: 1647 hashes, 0.06 khash/sec
[2011-11-02 21:15:07] thread 1: 1581 hashes, 0.06 khash/sec
[2011-11-02 21:15:08] thread 0: 3696 hashes, 1.41 khash/sec
[2011-11-02 21:15:10] thread 1: 3385 hashes, 1.22 khash/sec
[2011-11-02 21:15:10] thread 0: 2281 hashes, 1.16 khash/sec
[2011-11-02 21:15:10] PROOF OF WORK RESULT: true (yay!!!)
[2011-11-02 21:15:12] thread 1: 2707 hashes, 1.13 khash/sec
[2011-11-02 21:15:12] PROOF OF WORK RESULT: true (yay!!!)

Do you know what that is exactly? It's load balancing in effect. You for just a few seconds get a bump of that 1.30 or so speed, then get reduced to below 0.05

[Bobnova]

I tried march=native, it didn't do any better than just using SSE2 for me.
Specifying all the SSEs as well as AVX (I was using a 2600k) made a big difference.

[Remember remember the 5th of November]

I tried march=native, it didn't do any better than just using SSE2 for me.
Specifying all the SSEs as well as AVX (I was using a 2600k) made a big difference.

You seem to have misunderstood the thread. It's about Amazon EC2 computing. I.e rented computers, not a personal computer.

[phorensic]

Well, I got some speed bumps to 2.5kh/s all of a sudden.  Then it goes back down to 0.4kh/s.  If you run a large virtual environment at work like I do you would understand why it does this.

[Bobnova]

I tried march=native, it didn't do any better than just using SSE2 for me.
Specifying all the SSEs as well as AVX (I was using a 2600k) made a big difference.

You seem to have misunderstood the thread. It's about Amazon EC2 computing. I.e rented computers, not a personal computer.

If march=native doesn't detect high level SSEs and/or AVX, it doesn't detect it.
Doesn't matter what the computer is being used for.

[Snapman]

You guys do understand that you only get so much processor time/power per month under that free account. After the limit is passed, you will start getting billed.

[phorensic]

Has anyone done the math to see if mining Litecoin would be profitable on an Amazon EC2 High-CPU Extra Large (8 cores)?  On-demand pricing is $0.68/hr and and spot pricing is $0.216/hr.