CPU Cloud Mining

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

• Click 'Create Droplet' to get your instance running

• Select the specifications you wish to mine (16GB/8CPU) on as well as the latest Ubuntu x64 image (Ubuntu 13.10 x64).

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

• Log in to your droplet via SSH

ssh root@192.168.2.1

• Change your root password.

passwd

• Relocate into the home directory

cd ~

• Create a swap file

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

• Install dependencies

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

• Download CPUminer

curl http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/cpuminer/pooler-cpuminer-2.3.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz > cpuminer.tar.gz
tar xzvf cpuminer.tar.gz

Test whether your compiled minerd launches fine: Code:

./minerd --help

It'll return all its command options.

• Now head over to a Pool and follow the instructions posted, for example:

./minerd -o stratum+tcp://pool.miner.com:3333 --userpass=username.worker:password

If you wish to run this process in the background so it doesn't close once you drop the SSH connection, use screen. When a screen session is detached, the processes that were running inside it are not stopped.

Launch screen

screen

Hit space, then launch the miner; e.g.

./minerd -o stratum+tcp://pool.miner.com:3333 --userpass=username.worker:password

ctrl+d detatches the current screen sessions and brings you back to the normal terminal, you can re-attach your detached session by typing

screen -r

Notes

sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev
sudo apt-get install libdb++-dev