Mine Gridcoin for free, without using any personal computer
Step 1. Do a Gridcoin wallet and save wallet.dar and the .conf file on an external usb.
Step 2. Do an account on grcpool website. Setup up everything including your wallet address.
Step 3. Download BOINC program on your computer, change to advanced view and play with the settings. Check and learn how to sync to grcpool and how to add/detach projects.
Step 4. Make Free accounts on Google Cloud, Amazon AWS and Azure Microsoft. I use Linux Debian on Google Cloud, EC2 windows on AWS and Linux on Azure. If you got windows on your computer, you can set up AWS EC2 in the same way. For Google and Azure, I do it this way.
Create vm instance Linux Debian high cpu
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install boinc
boinccmd --set_run_mode always
boinccmd --set_network_mode always
boinccmd --join_acct_mgr URL NAME PASSWORD
URL is https://www.grcpool.com/
After this command is executed, you should be able to see the new machines in your profile on the pool’s website.
Now it’s time to go to https://www.grcpool.com/account/index , select our new hosts and enable the projects you intend to run. Also select everything but “No GPU” since you want to run only CPU tasks.
Don’t forget to submit the changes.
Try entering the boinccmd --join_acct_mgr command twice in order to sync with the pool.
sudo apt-get install boinctui
after installation, just call it: boinctui
To exit the interface, press CTRL+C
You can make a nice stash of Gridcoin for free. Google and Azure will run until you finish the free money. Amazon on EC2 can run 12 months free.
Step 5. Enjoy your rewards.
PS. If you think I deserve a tip for this, my Gridcoin address is: RyYJFn2Eu1wB6rNj1EooitXC6P6VEcuDMD
Besides the reference issues, can you please ensure your article has correct information otherwise you will only confuse new users.
For example:
should be wallet.dat
and
should be "No GPU"
I wouldn't recommend using google cloud's computing platform because it specifically states in their FAQ under restricted actions:
Microsoft Azure (maybe AWS as well) is fine as it did not have any such clause in their terms of service last time I checked.
you could look at it in the gridcoin wording that its not mining... so the free trials technically are just doing science and there is some reward for it but I thought we pride gridcoin on the fact that it is not mining? but even doing a 4 instance 2 cpu core 3.8gb ram 3 months via google really does nothing for you but is a way to start out. the 1 year aws instances are not really cruchers either because we need more projects for GPU's let alone CPU's but this post does imo seem a little trollish like " this how to cheat lulz " but its not and they failed.
I would encourage you to talk to google cloud's team about what their opinion is on whether running BOINC under team Gridcoin constitutes mining (which you can do here). I would not recommend using the free trial to earn Gridcoin unless they explicitly state that they don't consider it mining. I just want people to be informed of what is in their terms of service.
Gridcoin and Curecoin are classified as folding for research. Not going into any details, most of the supervisors on Google Cloud agree with this. But not all.
Interesting, I wouldn't have assumed that to be the case. So it's a bit of a different type of gamble than I thought it was then to crunch Gridcoin on Google Cloud.
It can be categorised as research. If you are doing it to help science. Especially if you are involved into some projects. I use the research of some proteins from here. So it is not mining for me.
How many gridcoins a day can you make using this method?
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