Bitcoin mining with Amazon Web Services
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Arriving a little bit late to the Bitcoin party I was intrigued by the mining process so thought I would give it a go on a lazy afternoon with help from this blog post. Rather than tie up my home PC or commit to long term hosted mining contracts I used Amazon Web Services to provision a suitable machine for a few cents an hour. Thanks to the availability of suitable Bitcoin miners on GitHub the process is remarkably simple to get up and running.