How to launch EC2 instances to mine Darkcoin


I made an EC2-AMI with roughly my settings for mining DarkCoin. This is the cheapest and easiest way I've found to mine, and it's pretty easy. Here's a short walkthrough of how to get up and running:


1.) Open an EC2 account
2.) Go to aws.amazon.com, click EC2, then "Spot Requests", click "Request Spot Instance"
3.) Change region to N. Virginia at the top right corner
4.) On the left side, click "Community AMIs" and search for "ami-afebd5c6"
5.) It should say Darkcoin-Public-Miner, Click "Select"
6.) Click "Compute Optimized", then find c1.xlarge, then "Configure Instance Details"
7.) Maximum price should be set to something about $0.10, "Review and Launch"
8.) "Launch"
9.) Wait for the instance to bootup, and ssh into it with ubuntu:PSM93zOtj6
10.) Edit crontab, find the minerd entry and replace my username with yours (signup with a pool if needed)
11.) Change the password, with passwd
12.) Right click the instance and click "Create Image" to make a new image that will use your password and username
13.) Boot a few instances up and it should just work

What is DarkCoin?: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615