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Google is offering $300 worth of free credit to new users of Google Cloud!

After creating an account click Compute Engine on the left hand side and click VM Instances
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Click Create Instance
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Name the instance whatever you want.
Here you want to click upgrade to be able to use more than 4 CPU cores. The upgrade button should be under the CPU list or the top right corner of the page.
DONT WORRY YOU WILL KEEP THE $300 CREDIT AND THEY DONT CHARGE YOU UNLESS YOU USE MORE THAN YOUR FREE TRIAL!

Click the CPU list in the machine type section
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Choose the amount you want to use. I am using 16 vCPU n1-highcpu-16 as it is around $300 a month. Using the n1-highcpu option is the best option for most CPU mining.
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Now change your bootdisk to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and leave everything default and press select
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Now click CREATE!

Once your VM is up and running click the SSH button next to your instance. This will open a window in your browser and will automatically connect.
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Now you should be connected!
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Now to install the CPU miner. We will use XMRIG as its simple to install and use.

Add the following repository for with this command:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/gcc-7.1

Now update your repositories:
sudo apt-get update

Install the following dependencies:
sudo apt-get install gcc-7 g++-7
sudo apt-get install git build-essential cmake libuv1-dev libmicrohttpd-dev

Clone the git:
git clone https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig.git

Change to the directory:
cd xmrig

Make a build folder and change to it:
mkdir build
cd build

Run CMAKE with these parameters to compile with gcc and g++ for a performance boost:
cmake .. -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=gcc-7 -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=g++-7

Now run make:
make

Change your hugepages to a larger size so you get better performance:
sudo sysctl -w vm.nr_hugepages=30

You may require a larger size depending on your cores.

Now run the miner!
sudo ./xmrig -a "algo" -o "mining-pool" -u "address" -p "password default=x" --max-cpu-usage=100

Here I'm getting about 2KH/s with cryptonight-light
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Enjoy the free CPU power and be sure to monitor your free credit!

Using this method I am able to pull 15KH/s sometime 20KH/s on a good day. Thats averaging $8 a day!
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