[Experiment] Monero mining with Microsoft Azure experiment!
You can track my XMR mining setup here:
Mining Pool: https://minemonero.pro/en/#!/dashboard
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My Microsoft Azure ming configuration:
xmr-stak-cpu, 18 VMs, Ubuntu 16.04, $0.433 per hour per VM, 2 days and 16 hrs per free trial account
Compute F4: 4 cores, 8GB RAM, 64GB Disk
Update 1 (21 Aug 2017):
I'm doing a little experiment to mine Monero with my Laptop CPU (i7-4500U), actually getting a decent 110H/s = USD$0.50 a day
To put in perspective, it costs USD$86 for an equivalent contract on Genesis Mining, without factoring in electricity costs
(Yea, it won't be profitable as long as electricity costs are involved, it's expensive here (USD$0.15/KWH)
Update 2 (23 Aug 2017):
I'm using 2 laptops to mine XMR ~16hrs a day for 2 days, I've got 0.0077009256XMR --> 0.64919USD
Average: 140H/s for 2 laptops
5 year old HP Pavillion (i5-3210M) 70H/s
My 3 year old HP Probook 430 G1 (i7-4500U) 110H/s
Both are Dual core with Hyper-threading
Edit (3/9):
Based in CPUID's HWMonitor, the highest CPU temperature reached was 85°C, which should be okay (maybe), at least in the short run (Source). In addition, I didn't observe any thermal throttling, based on the consistent CPU clock speed and hashrate
Update 3 (24 Aug 2017):
I tried using Microsoft Azure for Monero mining, oh boy, it sures pay very well! 🤑 (I'm starting to think I'm dumb for not trying this earlier 😂
As you can see from the screen shots, each of the 10 Virtual machines (VMs), has an average hashrate of 320H/s. That's 3200H/s in total, pretty good for a free trial. Of course, none of this will be worth it if this isn't a free trial
Update 4 (28 Aug):
After 5 days of mining XMR with Microsoft Azure, the results speak for themselves :)
My payout so far: 0.1628881035 XMR (21.77 USD) (1 XMR to 133.66 USD)
Out of the $200 credits from the free trial from 2 accounts, I have $61.91 left in one account and $144.61 in another.
As you may had noticed from the screenshot above, there is sudden decrease in hashrate every ~3.5hrs. It occurs after Microsoft Azure shutdown my 18 VMs (Virtual Machines). I have to manually restart them. I think you can run it longer if you connect it via an external SSH client, like Putty or Juice SSH.
Edit (3/9):
Note 1: Actually it doesn't matter how many VMs you have. What matters is that each of the VM (Standard compute F4s) costs $0.4333 an hour to run and you habe $200 in free trial credits. The more VMs you create, the faster you run out of credits. But you also have more hashrate, hence potientially higher payouts in that shorter period of time. My 10 VMs per account (19 in total) lasts about 3 days of mining at around ~15hrs a day.
Update 5 (1 Sep 2017)
I have ran out of my Azure credits from my 2 accounts yesterday. I have only accumulated 0.2589901607 XMR (36.26 USD) from mining with Microsoft Azure, short of the minimum payout of 0.3 XMR. So I emailed the support of Minemonero.pro team, and they replied in 6mins (not a typo). They have sent the payout, with the transaction hash. I verified with my payment address and private viewkey.
I received my XMR mining payouts guys! I'm really glad to say that these guys at Minemonero.pro team are legit (Pretty rare these days ✨)
Update 6
coming soon...
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That is a decent payout for old laptops!
Don't they overheat?
Thanks! Based in CPUID's HWMonitor, the highest CPU temperature reached was 85°C, which should be okay (maybe), at least in the short run (Source)
In addition, I didn't observe any thermal throttling, based on the consistent CPU clock speed and hashrate
That is great!
Do you know if you can mine on an android tv box?
I see these for $30ish.
You can either use an android app, like the (sketchy) MinerGate that you tried out on your blog, or, you can root your android tv box, and run Linux and mine from there. I tried compiling xmr-stak-cpu on my Android phone, running Ubuntu (armhf) through Linux Deploy, but I'm stuck when compiling (at the Make Command)
You can try it out. And maybe you can get a refund if it doesn't work out 😂
P.S. I find it pretty smart that you are using android tv box, those run arm chips, which are more power efficient, which decreases electricity costs
I don't have the tv box yet. Maybe you could set it up and sell it to me?
Sorry to hear you got stuck on the phone compiler. Maybe someone here could help with that?
Those Android TV boxes that you normally see more often than not just runs (plain simple) Android, so you can just try installing the Minergate app that you tried. Unless they specifically mention that it runs Android TV with the Android TV UI (see the Nvidia Shield TV)
Thanks for the info!
I have been reading about the odroid and raspberry pi's for cpu mining, too.
And, the nanofury for bitcoin mining.
Still have a lot more research to do!
I'm glad that you are on the right track! Keep up the enthusiasm 💪
wow, this is funny! Do you know why the VMs were shut down after 3.5h? Could you have spawned more VMs to fully exploit the 200$ trail credits?
I running a mining software at runs the CPU at 100% throughout the 3.5 hrs, which Microsoft do not like. That is actually more lenient than Google Cloud where they shut my VMs down after 0.5hrs. I think you can run it longer if you connect it via an external SSH client, like Putty or Juice SSH.
Actually it doesn't matter how many VMs you have. What matters is that each of the VM (Standard compute F4s) costs $0.4333 an hour to run and you habe $200 in free trial credits. The more VMs you create, the faster you run out of credits. But you also have more hashrate, hence potientially higher payouts in that shorter period of time. My 10 VMs per account (19 in total) lasts about 3 days of mining at around ~15hrs a day
thanks for explaining! Yeah, I can image they don't like it very much ;)
Several VPS providers deny crypto mining even explicitly in their TOS.
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So, Azure does not shutdown your instances if the CPU will skyrock to 100%?
How are you being able to verify more than one account on Azure? I've setup one alright, but the second one isn't going through at all!