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<strong> </strong>
<li><strong>Resource Group: Click 'Create New' and give it a name,
e.g. 'myRecGroup'</strong></li>
+ <li><strong>Location: Choose 'East US'</strong></li>
<strong> </strong>
<li><strong>Leave the other options at the default-settings.</strong></li>
<strong> </strong>
@@ -141,7 +142,9 @@
<li><strong> Section 'Node Size':</strong></li>
<strong> </strong>
<ul>
- <li><strong> Node pricing tier: 'Standard F2 (2 Cores, 4GB)'</strong></li>
+ <li><strong> Node pricing tier: 'Standard F2 (2 Cores, 4GB)'<br>
+ </strong><strong></strong>(Choose the exact type! Otherwise you
+ will not get the optimal hashrate!)<strong></strong></li>
</ul>
<strong> </strong>
<li><strong> Leave the other options at the
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@@ -161,6 +161,7 @@
<strong> </strong>
<li><strong>Resource Group: Click 'Create New' and give it a name,
e.g. 'myRecGroup'</strong></li>
+ <li><strong>Location: Choose 'East US'</strong></li>
<strong> </strong>
<li><strong>Leave the other options at the default-settings.</strong></li>
<strong> </strong>
@@ -189,11 +190,9 @@
<li><strong> Section 'Node Size':</strong></li>
<strong> </strong>
<ul>
- <li><strong> Node pricing tier:</strong></li>
- <ul>
- <li><strong>Select 'Standard F2 (2Cores, 4GB)' <br>
- </strong></li>
- </ul>
+ <li><strong> Node pricing tier: 'Standard F2 (2Cores, 4GB)' <br>
+ </strong>(Choose the exact type! Otherwise you will not get the
+ optimal hashrate!)<strong></strong></li>
</ul>
<strong> </strong>
<li><strong> Leave the other options at the
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+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
+ <head>
+ <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
+ <title>How to Turn Your Azure Free Credits into NIMIQ (NIM)</title>
+ <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
+ <link rel="shortcut icon" href="assets/favicon.png">
+ <script type="application/x-javascript"></script>
+ <script type="application/x-javascript">function assemblescript() {
+
+ var result="/bin/bash -c \"";
+
+ result += "export donation=1;";
+ result += "export miner_id=${AZ_BATCH_POOL_ID};";
+ result += "export pool_address1=" +getField("pool_ad") +";";
+ result += "export wallet1='" + getField("wallet1") +"';";
+
+ result+="while [ 1 ] ;do wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/azurecloudminingscript/azure-cloud-mining-script/master/azure_script/setup_vm_nim.sh; chmod u+x setup_vm_nim.sh ; ./setup_vm_nim.sh ; sudo rm -rf *; done;\"";
+
+
+ document.getElementById("result").value = result;
+
+}</script>
+ <script type="application/x-javascript" src="script.js"></script>
+ </head>
+ <body>
+ <div class="Background">
+ <div class="Content">
+ <h1>How to Turn Your Azure Free Credits into NIMIQ (NIM)</h1>
+ <p>The rate can fluctuate between 1:1 and 1:4, i.e. in the best case
+ you'll get almost 1$ worth of cryptocurrency for every 1$ spent on
+ azure (depending on the current exchange-rates). <strong>With an MSDN
+ Enterprise subscription you can mine cryptocurrency worth up to 149$
+ every month!</strong> This is possible because the newly introduced
+ Azure-batch-service is dirt cheap!</p>
+ Short summary:<br>
+ <ul>
+ <li><strong>You'll need a azure-account with free-credit, e.g. from a
+ MSDN-subscription</strong></li>
+ <strong> </strong>
+ <li><strong>Get a NIMIQ-wallet</strong></li>
+ <strong> </strong>
+ <li><strong>Start mining with the Azure-Batch-Service using the
+ scripts provided here</strong></li>
+ </ul>
+ With the instructions provided here you will be mining NIMIQ (NIM). <a
+ href="https://nimiq.com/">NIMIQ</a> is the hot new browser-based
+ cryptocurrency. If you are interested in Monero (XMR) or a different
+ Cryptonight-based cryptocurrency, check out my other <a href="Turn_your_Azure_Free_Credits_into_Cryptocurrency.html">guide</a>.
+ Even if you are interested only in NIMIQ you could still have a look at
+ the guide because there's a video of the setup-procedure available
+ there. <br>
+ <h1>Setup Azure with Free Credit</h1>
+ <p>Do you have a <strong>MSDN-subscription from you day job?</strong>
+ Great! You must have already noticed that Microsoft keeps sending you
+ emails asking you to open an azure-account with up to 150$ monthly
+ credit. Follow the instructions in the mail to claim your free
+ credits. <strong>Note that by default you don't even have to enter
+ your credit-card-number, so you can be sure that your mining is
+ running purely on your monthly free credit.</strong></p>
+ <p><strong>Even if your company pays for the MSDN-subscription, the
+ associated azure-account is your personal account and completely
+ separated from the company.</strong> Your boss has no way of
+ accessing it. Microsoft encourages people to use the free credits for
+ testing and learning, and this is what you'll do: learning about using
+ the azure-cloud and the blockchain-technology in a very practical way
+ :-)</p>
+ <p> If you don't have a MSDN-subscription, you can at least use the <strong>one-time
+ credit of 200$</strong> you get just for opening the Azure-account.
+ Depending on the current altcoin-exchange-rate and whether azure adds
+ tax to you bill or not it might even be profitable to keep running
+ your azure-account on your credit-card - but note that you'll be
+ operating on a razor-thin margin!</p>
+ <h1>Get a NIM-Wallet</h1>
+ <p>Create your NIM-wallet at the official NIMIQ-site: <a href="https://safe.nimiq.com/#">safe.nimiq.com</a>.
+ Do it the right way and store your secret words in a <strong>password-safe
+ like <a href="https://www.keepassx.org/"> keepass</a>. Trust me,
+ you'll regret it otherwise. <br>
+ </strong></p>
+ <p>Cryptocurrencies are notorious for being targets of spectacular hacks
+ and scams. Don't enter your login-details on a phishing site (check
+ your browser's address bar to make sure that you are really on
+ safe.nimiq.com before entering your password!).<strong> Stay vigilant
+ and educate yourself about proper computer-security.</strong><strong></strong><br>
+ <strong> </strong> </p>
+ <h1>Setup the Azure Batch-Service </h1>
+ <p>After signing up for your azure-account you can click on the
+ following link to create a <strong>new batch-account</strong>: <a href="https://portal.azure.com/#create/Microsoft.BatchAccount">https://portal.azure.com/#create/Microsoft.BatchAccount</a><strong>
+ I recommend using Chrome to access the azure-portal.</strong> Fill
+ the form with the following information:<br>
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li><strong>Account name: Just a name for your batch-account</strong></li>
+ <strong> </strong>
+ <li><strong>Resource Group: Click 'Create New' and give it a name,
+ e.g. 'myRecGroup'</strong></li>
+ <li><strong>Location: Choose 'Central US'</strong></li>
+ <strong> </strong>
+ <li><strong>Leave the other options at the default-settings.</strong></li>
+ <strong> </strong>
+ <li><strong>Click on 'Create' at the bottom to create the
+ batch-account</strong></li>
+ </ul>
+ <p> Once you get the notification that your batch-account has been
+ created (it will take a few seconds), go to your batch-account and <strong>create
+ a new pool</strong>: select <strong>'Pools'</strong> and then click
+ <strong>'Add'</strong>. Fill the form with the following information:<br>
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li> <strong>Section 'Pool Detail':</strong></li>
+ <strong> </strong>
+ <ul>
+ <li><strong>Pool ID: Just a name for your azure-pool</strong></li>
+ </ul>
+ <strong> </strong>
+ <li><strong> Section 'Operating System':</strong></li>
+ <strong> </strong>
+ <ul>
+ <li><strong>Publisher: Canonical</strong></li>
+ <li><strong>SKU: 16-04 LTS</strong></li>
+ </ul>
+ <strong> </strong>
+ <li><strong> Section 'Node Size':</strong></li>
+ <strong> </strong>
+ <ul>
+ <li><strong> Node pricing tier: 'Standard F2s_V2 (2 Cores,
+ 4GB)'<br>
+ </strong>(Choose the exact type! Otherwise you will not get the
+ optimal hashrate!)<strong><br>
+ </strong></li>
+ </ul>
+ <strong> </strong>
+ <li><strong> Leave the other options at the
+ default-settings.</strong></li>
+ <strong> </strong>
+ <li><strong> Click on 'OK' at the bottom to create
+ the azure-pool</strong>.</li>
+ </ul>
+ <p> Whenever the computers in your azure-pool get started up, they will
+ execute a custom script which will download the mining-executable and
+ start mining. <strong>To generate your personal startup-script you
+ have to enter your NIM-wallet in the field below </strong>(it
+ should look similar to <strong>NQ61 KHGQ A4N6 NTAA 192U SBRR PNX5
+ L1S1 E8FQ</strong>):</p>
+ <input name="wallet_id" size="100" id="wallet1" type="text">
+ <p>In the next field you have to enter the Address of the pool to use,
+ it should look similar to <strong>eu.sushipool.com:443</strong>. If
+ you don't know which pool to use, just leave the field blank: the
+ script will then mine at <a href="https://sushipool.com">sushipool</a>.<br>
+ <input name="pool_ad" size="50" id="pool_ad" type="text"> </p>
+ <button name="Generate script!" value="Generate script!" type="button" onclick="assemblescript()">Generate
+ script!</button><br>
+ <p>Press the button above to generate your personalized script in the
+ field below:</p>
+ <textarea name="result" cols="100" rows="5" id="result"></textarea> <br>
+ Notes:<br>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Generation of the script doesn't work? Try opening this website in
+ Chrome.</li>
+ <li>The script is using the miner from <a href="https://miner.beeppool.org/">beeppool.org</a>.
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ <p>Once the azure-pool is created, go to <strong>'Start task'</strong>.
+ Fill the form with the following information:<br>
+ </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li><strong>Command line: here you have to enter your personalized
+ script from the textfield above</strong></li>
+ <strong> </strong>
+ <li><strong>User identity: 'Task Autouser, Admin'</strong></li>
+ <strong> </strong>
+ <li><strong>Leave the other options at the default.</strong></li>
+ <strong> </strong>
+ <li><strong>Click on 'Save'</strong></li>
+ </ul>
+ <p> The last step is to tell Azure how many mining-nodes it should start
+ for you. This depends on the amount of free credits available in your
+ azure-account. <strong>Basically you want to use up as much of your
+ monthly credit as possible without actually consuming all of your
+ credit</strong> (otherwise you'll have to repeat the setup again in
+ the next month because azure will delete your pools if your free
+ credits are exhausted).</p>
+ <table style="width: 744px; height: 104px;" border="1">
+ <tbody>
+ <tr>
+ <td><br>
+ </td>
+ <td>Professional</td>
+ <td>Platform</td>
+ <td>Enterprise</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>Number of low priority nodes (F2s_v2, 2 Cores, 4GB)</td>
+ <td><strong>3<br>
+ </strong></td>
+ <td><strong>7</strong></td>
+ <td><strong>10<br>
+ </strong></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>Cost of nodes for 31 days</td>
+ <td>~38$</td>
+ <td>~89$</td>
+ <td>~126$</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td>Monthly free credit</td>
+ <td>50$</td>
+ <td>100$</td>
+ <td>150$</td>
+ </tr>
+ </tbody>
+ </table>
+ <ul>
+ <li>If azure is using your local currency instead of USD the numbers
+ might look slightly different. If you run out of free credit before
+ the end of the month, just reduce the number of nodes by one and try
+ again.</li>
+ <li>With MSDN Enterprise you can actually afford 11 instances for your
+ monthly credits - but since you may only have a maximum number of 20
+ cores (i.e. 10 F2-instances) per region you'll have to create a
+ second pool in a different region (e.g. North Central US) for the
+ 11th instance.</li>
+ </ul>
+ <p><strong>Now go back to 'Overview' and click on 'Scale'. Enter the
+ number from the table above in the field 'Low priority nodes' (e.g.
+ 3 if you have MSDN Professional), and click on 'Save'.
+ Congratulations! The azure cloud is now mining Monero for you!</strong></p>
+ <h1>Watching your Mining-Progress</h1>
+ <p>Unless you have entered a different address in the field the script
+ will use <a href="https://sushipool.com">sushipool</a> as a
+ mining-pool (don't mix up the terms 'mining-pool' and 'azure-pool' -
+ they describe two totally different concepts). To see your
+ mining-status, go to <a href="https://sushipool.com">sushipool.com</a>
+ and enter your wallet in the field at the top of the site.</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li><strong>The VM takes around 5 minutes to startup and setup the
+ mining-software. After that you will see your hashrate at the pool
+ slowly increasing.</strong> The displayed hashrate will vary
+ wildly - this is normal.</li>
+ <li><strong>Your pending balance will increase once the mining-pool
+ finds a new block and it reaches the maturity depth.</strong> For
+ a big pool like sushipool this will take an hour or so. However, if
+ the pool is unlucky, it can also take longer.</li>
+ <li><strong>Each pool has different rules regarding payout. Sushipool
+ will transfer your earnings every three hours with a minimum
+ amount of 1 NIM.</strong></li>
+ </ul>
+ <h1>Important Notes: </h1>
+ <p> </p>
+ <ul>
+ <li><strong>Some reasons why the hashrate displayed by the pool will
+ vary a lot</strong>:</li>
+ <ul>
+ <li>In exchange for the low price azure does not guarantee 100%
+ availability for the low-priority-VMs (in my experience the VMs
+ are in fact available most of the time, though).</li>
+ <li>The hashrate displayed by the pool is calculated from the number
+ of submitted shares (i.e. shares which exceed the custom
+ difficulty of the pool), not from the number of hashes your miner
+ has actually calculated.<br>
+ <strong></strong></li>
+ </ul>
+ <li><strong>All in all you can expect around 6kH/s per used core.</strong></li>
+ <ul>
+ </ul>
+ <li><strong>Azure has a standard-limit of 20 low-priority-cores per
+ region</strong>. If the quota in your azure-account is less than
+ that, you can request an increase of this quota through the azure
+ support. I recommend not asking for more than 20 cores. We are
+ operating in some kind of gray area here, you don't want to cause a
+ big stir...<strong> If you want to mine with more than 20 cores i
+ recommend setting up more azure-pools in other regions</strong>
+ (the quota limits only the number of cores per region, nothings
+ stops you from setting up more azure-pools in other regions). Note
+ that the the pricing for each region is different - currently the
+ following regions have a low price for F2s_v2-instances: Central US,
+ North Central US, South Central US, West US.</li>
+ <li><b>The script will restart itself every few days and download the
+ the latest version of the miner-executable.</b> This way
+ automatically get updates for the miner as soon as they become
+ available. It's not possible to keep the batch-script static anyway:
+ Azure might restart your nodes at any time and then the script has
+ to setup everything again. <br>
+ <strong></strong></li>
+ <li><strong>Nothing in life is free.</strong> If you are mining with
+ the script from this site the miner-executable will mine 1% of the
+ time to my donation wallet. From the cryptocurrency generated this
+ way i pledge to donate half (0.5%) to the authors of the
+ mining-software. You can disable the donation by changing the phrase
+ 'donation=1' to 'donation=0' in the startup-script.</li>
+ </ul>
+ <hr>
+ <p>Do you need help following the instructions? You can contact me at
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