This community is amazing! I'm out of game for the second giveaway because I already had my part, but when the reliability is in function I will give my support, I see a great future for Espers!

./cpuminer -q -a hmq1725 -o stratum+tcp://esp.suprnova.cc:3453 -u user.1 -p 1                      (that is gpu port for suprnova since i read that it was better to use with this miner)

I've been following 6 new coins and ESPERS dev & community is by far the most active and most passionate. It's a joy to come everyday and see the progress and the community getting tighter.

If the Dev Team will like it, those who hold a fair big amount of ESP can donate to the community. This ESP will then be Sold in the Buy and Sell thread or on existing exchanges and use the BTC gathered for buying up the Votes there. And if there is someone who wants to Invest on the said ESP Stash that have been donated then please proceed to or we can go for it for a Bidding. But this has to be done immediately. Thanks

...I really need to get my hands on a cheap multi-core VPS...anyone have recommendations?

What would you recommend, out of those four?  I'd rather just pay for an entire month's use, or something other than by the hour so I can let it run and forget about it (without freaking out and doing calculations in my head all day, lol).  At the moment, I have maybe a week left before my DigitalOcean trial expires - hence the single core.  While I could just upgrade my plan there, I'm totally open to switching providers if you recommend one of those other three.

Sadly all I have laying around are a couple crappy laptops that would probably explode if run overnight @ >10% CPU, and a motherboard with an intel E8400 sitting on my shelf (but no other components  )

Thanks for your time!

why bother wasitng your money on mining them  - just buy them

$9 a hour $215 ..... and you might get 6 million a day ..... just buy BTC0.48640000 ($215) worth , or about 5 million at 1 sat each ...

or

Buy LTC then buy esp for cheaper

Dude, at those high number of cores, you can't afford to pay for an entire month. The 32 to 64 cores would be about $2000 per month. hehehe.

The $9 I quoted was for 1 hour of VPS mining, and you might be able to get 5 million ESP in that one hour. Not one day. That depends on difficulty and a bunch of other things, including luck.

While it's mining on the VPS, you are either sending the coins to another wallet address (like on your own computer), or you have a copy of the wallet.dat with a few hundred or thousand addresses already pregenerated so you can recover all your mined coins when the VPS disappears when your credit runs out.

By the way, my idea is to solo mine. Not to pool mine. That's how I calculated 9 million ESP per hour. Since you're not going to get all the blocks, maybe you can get half of it, or even less, but 1 to 3 million ESP per hour at $9~10 per hour should be some good mining.

Unless my math is wrong, and you end up mining only a block per hour. Again, difficulty, etc.

It's a risk though.

Guide for faster cpuminer:

This is almost my first time on linux.
I did this in latest Ubuntu in virtual machine Windows 10 Pro and Hyper V.
There might be something that more experienced users notice that are unecessary options, so please advice.
I figured all this out almost by myself, but i gotta thank @cryptocoderz and @amorejaz for getting me started.

Okay, here we go, hold on to your hats and take off your pants:

First go here: https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/1326803.0

Download the file from first post and REMEMBER TO THANK joblo <--- This part is THE most necessary
(you can even chip some btc in the address of his sig)

after downloading go to your Downloads folder and double click cpuminer-opt-3.2.4.tar.gz
then extract and choose a location to extract. (i used the destination it gave me in this guide)

Now open terminal and type:

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev pkg-config libgmp3-dev libssl-dev libboost-all-dev automake yasm

after that part is done type:

cd Downloads
cd cpuminer-opt-3.2.4

./autogen.sh
./configure CFLAGS="-O3 -march=native" --with-crypto --with-curl   (that red text is -O3, not -03, not -zero3)
make

./cpuminer -q -a hmq1725 -o stratum+tcp://esp.suprnova.cc:3453 -u user.1 -p 1                      (that is gpu port for suprnova since i read that it was better to use with this miner)

And that's it.

Hope this is helpful and you can always ask if you have questions, but i'm not sure if i can answer, since this really was first time i compiled anything.

My hashrate is around +200kh/s with i7-4790K @ 4.7GHZ vs older miner 130KH/S

Thanks @joblo

Thank you but you missed just one thing:
sudo apt-get install build-essential

This was also my first time with mint linux, and it required that for it to run the "make" command. But i was 205 kh/s on my i7-6700k. I get 109~ kh/s on windows 10

Ah, damn. Are there any other pools? That port has an initial difficulty of 32, and that's way too damned low. It does adjust, but a bit slowly.

No, I'm not that good haha