I figure I've got a couple of days to learn how and set something up.
I've never mined a damn thing...don't know anything about it. Can I mine CPU? Can I use Amazon ec2? How to set that up? I will find some reading on it tomorrow night, but if anybody can point me to shortcuts, PM me or post here.
My experience, best XMR GPU miner is
Claymore's CryptoNote GPU Miner v7.0. 5% mining fee but fastest optimization for my AMD cards.
Best CPU miner is
Yam's M7v minerYam's is 1% mining fee and tailored to CPU type. You will need to know your CPU micro-architecture so that you can download the proper Yam build for your CPU. He also has a good generic build for Non AES_NI CPU's but it is a bit slower as are ALL non AES_NI miners. See
http://www.cpu-world.com/ to reference your CPU micro-architecture.
Yam's was a little faster than wolf's to begin with, but after enabling "hugepage capability it really took off.