Recently after deciding to dip into the ever growing world of Crypto-Currency Mining i stumbled upon a Free Trial at Microsoft's Azure Cloud Mining Platform.
Knowing already that a Machine running a Windows Instance Platform is Slower than a Linux Ubuntu I set up Several Vm's and aimed my miner's at my Favorite Mining Pool "Minergate" https://minergate.com/a/fae71705493ba1a9942fb380
Since Unless You have a Supercomputer the only real chance of making some crypto cash is by mining BCN (ByteCoin)
Here is the Results From a 16 Core VM Running Cpuminer-Multi (Wolf) (The Fastest Cpu Miner Available Today)
[2016-08-11 13:04:34] Using JSON-RPC 2.0
[2016-08-11 13:04:34] Starting Stratum on stratum+tcp://bcn.pool.minergate.com:45550
[2016-08-11 13:04:34] 16 miner threads started, using 'cryptonight' algorithm.
[2016-08-11 13:04:34] Pool set diff to 1063
[2016-08-11 13:04:34] Stratum detected new block
[2016-08-11 13:04:35] accepted: 1/1 (100.00%), 632.75 H/s at diff 1063 (yay!!!)
[2016-08-11 13:04:36] accepted: 2/2 (100.00%), 673.60 H/s at diff 1063 (yay!!!)
[2016-08-11 13:04:37] accepted: 3/3 (100.00%), 676.57 H/s at diff 1063 (yay!!!)
[2016-08-11 13:04:37] accepted: 4/4 (100.00%), 678.94 H/s at diff 1063 (yay!!!)
[2016-08-11 13:04:38] accepted: 5/5 (100.00%), 688.35 H/s at diff 1063 (yay!!!)
[2016-08-11 13:04:39] accepted: 6/6 (100.00%), 676.84 H/s at diff 1063 (yay!!!)
[2016-08-11 13:04:40] accepted: 7/7 (100.00%), 674.79 H/s at diff 1063 (yay!!!)
[2016-08-11 13:04:40] accepted: 8/8 (100.00%), 689.03 H/s at diff 1063 (yay!!!)
[2016-08-11 13:04:41] accepted: 9/9 (100.00%), 692.86 H/s at diff 1063 (yay!!!)
[2016-08-11 13:04:42] accepted: 10/10 (100.00%), 692.81 H/s at diff 1063 (yay!!!)
[2016-08-11 13:04:42] accepted: 11/11 (100.00%), 692.39 H/s at diff 1063 (yay!!!)
[2016-08-11 13:04:43] accepted: 12/12 (100.00%), 691.16 H/s at diff 1063 (yay!!!)
[2016-08-11 13:04:44] accepted: 13/13 (100.00%), 687.38 H/s at diff 1063 (yay!!!)
[2016-08-11 13:04:45] accepted: 14/14 (100.00%), 669.98 H/s at diff 1063 (yay!!!)
[2016-08-11 13:04:46] accepted: 15/15 (100.00%), 671.21 H/s at diff 1063 (yay!!!)
[2016-08-11 13:04:46] accepted: 16/16 (100.00%), 690.08 H/s at diff 1063 (yay!!!)
[2016-08-11 13:04:47] accepted: 17/17 (100.00%), 692.54 H/s at diff 1063 (yay!!!)
[2016-08-11 13:04:48] accepted: 18/18 (100.00%), 692.71 H/s at diff 1063 (yay!!!)
[2016-08-11 13:04:48] accepted: 19/19 (100.00%), 692.75 H/s at diff 1063 (yay!!!)
[2016-08-11 13:04:51] accepted: 20/20 (100.00%), 687.14 H/s at diff 1063 (yay!!!)
[2016-08-11 13:04:51] accepted: 21/21 (100.00%), 683.28 H/s at diff 1063 (yay!!!)
[2016-08-11 13:04:55] accepted: 22/22 (100.00%), 694.16 H/s at diff 1063 (yay!!!)
[2016-08-11 13:04:56] accepted: 23/23 (100.00%), 695.59 H/s at diff 1063 (yay!!!)
[2016-08-11 13:04:58] accepted: 24/24 (100.00%), 696.27 H/s at diff 1063 (yay!!!)
Simply Awesome!!!!!!!!
This is the Most Simple Setup for A Linux Ubuntu Server Running 16.04 LTS
After You Login to Your Terminal:Copy and Paste The Following!!!!!!!!
sudo apt-get update &&
sudo apt-get install automake autoconf pkg-config libcurl4-openssl-dev libjansson-dev libssl-dev libgmp-dev make g++ -y &&
git clone https://github.com/wolf9466/cpuminer-multi &&
cd cpuminer-multi &&
./autogen.sh &&
./configure CFLAGS="-march=native" --with-crypto --with-curl &&
make
Then Input:
sudo ./minerd -a cryptonight -o stratum+tcp://bcn.pool.minergate.com:45550 -u Your Minergate User Email Here -p Your Minergate User Password Here -t Amount of Threads Here
And Your Off and Running!!!!!!
To Run Your Miner and have it to continue to Run after You shut your terminal access You MUST Implement this Command:
nohup sudo ./minerd -a cryptonight -o stratum+tcp://bcn.pool.minergate.com:45550 -u Your Minergate User Email Here -p Your Minergate User Password Here -t Amount of Threads Here
To Verify that Your Miner is still working after you Close terminal You can Log back i and Implement the Following.
sudo apt-get install htop
after install simply enter the command htop
There you go!!!!!!
Your Off and Mining!!!!!!!!!!
If You do not already have an account at Minergate then simply sign up here https://minergate.com/a/fae71705493ba1a9942fb380