How to Mine Zcash on Amazon EC2

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"version" : 1000000,
"protocolversion" : 170002,
"walletversion" : 60000,
"balance" : 0.00000000,
"blocks" : 0,
"timeoffset" : 0,
"connections" : 0,
"proxy" : "",
"difficulty" : 1.00000000,
"testnet" : true,
"keypoololdest" : 1474113969,
"keypoolsize" : 101,
"paytxfee" : 0.00000000,
"relayfee" : 0.00005000,
"errors" : "WARNING: check your network connection, 0 blocks received in the last 4 hours (96 expected)"

May I know what’s happening or how to solve this? I used this

Auto Miner on Boot
$ crontab -e

@reboot ~/zcash/./src/zcashd -externalip=wget --quiet -O- http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/public-ipv4 -daemon

Please help…

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Are you put in the

@reboot ~/zcash/./src/zcashd -externalip=wget --quiet -O- http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/public-ipv4 -daemon

this code?

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Just to clarify… why do you need this bit? Why do you need an ‘external ip’ if you are running on EC2? Cheers! Tom

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Because wanted to create auto miner…? am i doing any wrong? hehe…

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Thanks again for this useful guide! I’m getting out-of-mem errors with beta1, even with a m4.large with 8GB RAM. Weird cos I have no issues compiling on my local machine with 4GB RAM. Any ideas? Cheers! Tom

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Terminate the instance and retry. Im running a few m4.large instances and they have never had a problem.

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That is just a clever way to find out what external IP address your nose
has.

That’s part of what allows other nodes to connect to your node.

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Can we have multiple miners behind same NAT or this is not possible?

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I don’t know the answer to this, but do want to know.

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@Austin-Williams
Just wanted to say thank you for all the of the contributions that you have made. This guide is great. Looking forward to the test tomorrow.

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Just out of curiosity, have you (or has anyone else) managed to mine on a t2.micro instance? I tried using the ami-d732f0b7 AMI using the v1.0.0-beta2 release and while I can launch zcashd it quickly dies due to a std::bad_alloc. Idle RAM usage seems to be around 120MB 50MB which implies you really do need the full gigabyte to mine.

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I think the t2.micro is too small (not enough memory).

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T2’s run on CPU credits so you will be running very very low CPU usage 95% of the day.

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Hello, and thank you @Austin-Williams for this very easy to use tutorial for mining Zcash on AWS. I follow up all the instruction till starting the zcash, after the tests set executed succesfully. I got the following error message launching ~/zcash/./src/zcash-cli getinfo after 1 hours:

“WARNING: check your network connection, 1 blocks received in the last 4 hours (96 expected)”

Do you know how long it takes for the testnet blockchain to synkronize ? or is it a real error ?

EDIT: I changed my post since, previously, I could not find tesnet3, when I later discovered it is under /.zcash folder and not /zcash, :frowning: very noob mistake.

EDIT2: @Austin-Williams, problem was that the guide you wrote is still referring to Beta1 ($ git checkout v1.0.0-beta1), where now we have Beta2, so finally I was able to fix the problem. Thank you anyway !

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So what do you reckon… m4.large or multiple m3’s ?

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is there a way to set this up to mine on a pool? ive installed and compiled all the needed things like you would on your own computer but this is what i get for ths miner and the nheqminer ?

./zcash-standalone-miner/src/zcash-miner -stratum=stratum+tcp://zec.suprnova.cc:21
42 -user=xdf.user -password=password -debug -printtoconsole
-bash: ./zcash-standalone-miner/src/zcash-miner: No such file or director

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Which pricing category does one instance fall under?

Of I see m4.large or so

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~/zcash/./src/zcashd -daemon -stratum=stratum+tcp://zec.suprnova.cc:21
42 -user=xdf.user -password=password -debug -printtoconsole

Should do the trick

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just out of curiousity when the miner starts it uses words like using wallet wallet.dat because it uses the wallet.dat should we be nervous?

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You can create a wallet on another PC and mine on another PC for the pool if your paranoid :slight_smile:

The payout address for suprnova is set in the pool itself