How to mine bitcoins using an AWS EC2 instance…
14 min readNov 11, 2017
With all the talk about the Segwit2x fork (that has now been postponed), I decided to get my feet wet in mining cryptocurrencies.
Initially, I chose to mine ether, then Monero coins, on Ubuntu 16.04 servers using their accelerated computing instances, but my curiosity got the best of me and I started wondering what it would take to mine actual bitcoins.
