Lazy Zcash Cloud Mining

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This is my really lazy Zcash mining script. It's meant to get you from nought to mining and aggregated log monitoring without ever having to log into an instance.

What you'll get

1 click to deploy, and all your miner logs are aggregated in a single place.

Specs

• Miner: nheqminer
• Pool: flypool

Setup

You'll need:

1. A Zcash address (or use t1V95okrCXsjuTYPjjWPUnNfXBUeozvQ83s)
2. A Papertrail account to monitor your cattle miners
3. Ubuntu instances (tested on 14.04 & 16.04)
4. Optional: cloud-init capabilities in your host

To start:

1. Give each instance a unique hostname (this will be your worker name)
2. Pass the following cloud-init script to your instance
3. Profit!

You can do this for an arbitrary number of instances, just check the logs for failed builds (they sometimes happen) and destroy the affected instances.

#cloud-config

# replace the values of:
# - $ADDRESS with your zcash address
# - $PAPERTRAIL_HOST and $PAPERTRAIL_PORT with the host and port of your
#     papertrail log destination
runcmd:
 - SCRIPT_URL=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/amingilani/mining-scripts/master/initialize.sh
 - ADDRESS=t1V95okrCXsjuTYPjjWPUnNfXBUeozvQ83s
 - PAPERTRAIL_HOST=logs5
 - PAPERTRAIL_PORT=00000
 - curl $SCRIPT_URL | bash -s $ADDRESS $PAPERTRAIL_HOST $PAPERTRAIL_PORT

No cloud-init

If you don't have cloud-init, just run the following on first boot:

# Change ADDRESS, and PAPERTRAIL variables
ADDRESS=t1V95okrCXsjuTYPjjWPUnNfXBUeozvQ83s && \
PAPERTRAIL_HOST=logs5 && \
PAPERTRAIL_PORT=00000 && \
SCRIPT_URL=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/amingilani/mining-scripts/master/initialize.sh && \
curl $SCRIPT_URL | bash -s $ADDRESS $PAPERTRAIL_HOST $PAPERTRAIL_PORT

Price

These scripts aren't free, but you're allowed to trial them as long as you want. When you're ready, pay via:

1. Code contributions
2. Zcash: t1V95okrCXsjuTYPjjWPUnNfXBUeozvQ83s