install a bitcoin cpuminer on ubuntu/debian

bitcoin-cpuminer.sh

# install dependencies
sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev libncurses5-dev pkg-config automake yasm

# clone cpuminer
git clone https://github.com/pooler/cpuminer.git

# compile
cd cpuminer
./autogen.sh
./configure CFLAGS="-O3"
make

# choose a miner pool and register there

# start the miner
./minerd --url=your.minerpool.org  --user=username --pass=password

[2021-02-04 16:30:09] 2 miner threads started, using 'scrypt' algorithm.
[2021-02-04 16:30:09] Binding thread 0 to cpu 0
[2021-02-04 16:30:09] Binding thread 1 to cpu 1
[2021-02-04 16:30:09] HTTP request failed: Empty reply from server
[2021-02-04 16:30:09] json_rpc_call failed, retry after 30 seconds

where were you in 2010 ???? lol

thanks for the gist