Forget stealing data — these hackers hijacked Amazon cloud accounts to mine bitcoin
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At the time, I was not too fussed about spending a couple of dollars to get a mining rig up and running, but I did not have the capacity to do it using my laptop it just didn't have powerful enough GPU so I started to look into some cloud mining options.
I quickly stumbled onto cloud mining using AWS - you see, the cool thing about AWS is that I don't have to worry about any hardware, keeping it cool, upgrading, storage bla bla the whole thing, all I need to do is spin up some of my instances, and voila!
I bitcoin mining amazon cloud this tutorial, I hope you guys find it helpful: So, it is all just sitting there, ready to go. Here is a mining calculator, so you can work out how much you would earn with a specific hashrate. If you have any bitcoin mining amazon cloud, let me know below. One thing I did change from the guide was instead of having to start each GPU bitcoin mining amazon cloud, on different screens, start them all at once on one screen via: I hope it goes well for you, if you have troubles let me know and I will try bitcoin mining amazon cloud help if I can.
I would say it is more profitable at the moment just to BUY Ethereum see my post on Coinbasebut it was fun just bitcoin mining amazon cloud be a miner for a while. You can get one too: I managed to get this working, but with limited knowledge, am having trouble connecting to a pool.
Additionally, would you need to add a script to your AWS Instances for restarting mining after a spot instance is terminated? It might also be cool to include an automated feature that calculates the spot price, the ETH price, and if it is profitable to mine or stop if not.
Hey thanks for this! Wanted to know if you had an update here. I'm sitting on k of free AWS credits and want to maximize them. Is it still possible to mine on AWS now?? I heard if they find out your account gonna get flagged? Authors get paid when people like you upvote their post. Very nice, thanks for sharing. I'll definitely look into that once I get a minute. Yes you need an AWS account, yes I have one. Did you ever figure this out? How did you get that credit?