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Pool mining with Google Cloud

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Pool mining with Google Cloud Recently I set up a few VM instances for pool mining via the Google Cloud platform, and wanted to share what I ’ve learned with the community. Setting up pool mining is a bit different that setting up solo mining. There’s a solo mining guide which we will be following for a while. I.  Registration and initial setup Follow this link and follow the guide up to point 6 (opening the SSH console): http://www.gridresearchcorp.com/beta/?tutorial Mind that the interface of the platform has change since, but you should have no problem figuring it out. Here’s a little help. When you’re ready to create a VM instance, just follow this link: https://console.cloud.google.com/compute/instances The instance creation page should look like this: All of the required settings have been set up in this screenshot. Take into account that the    boot disk image, mentioned in the solo mining guide is no longer there anymore, but the default one  (D