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Recently decided to try to mine BURST, right now price on 8Tb HDDs looks quite reasonable on Ebay

In the process of building 4x8Tb Hdd + 10Tb on different drives I found in house :) So should be ~ 40Tb

I'm using wallet plotter (with CPU) and wallet miner.

Right now did not get quite completely how pools are paying, looks like http://burstpool.ddns.net and http://burst.lexitoshi.uk paid couple of times and then stopped. No idea what is going on.

When I will plot all HDDs - will post here stats and earnings.

So maybe we can use that thread to share what to do with HDDs, plotter, miners and pools?

Hi.
I'm actually into burst mining as well but won't get into it before a month or two from now.

I actually found this list of pools http://burstcoin.cc/pool
And this is a forum specially for burst so yeah I guess it'd be helpful (especially the mining & plotting section)

https://forums.burst-team.us/

the difficulty just skyrocket :(
http://burstcoin.biz/charts/estimated-network-size
with 60 tb ploted drives i could get less then 300 burst a day !!

Hi all :-)

I built an ETH mining Rig with 6x RX470 six months ago
(Windows 10, CPU Intel Celeron G1850, 8GB DDR3)

I was wondering if I could mine something worth with the CPU
I'd like to give Burst a try, but I'm wondering if the Celeron is powerfull enough for this, or in other words what are the minimum requirements for BURST CPU mining

Any info would be much appreciated

Thanks :-)

Hi,

BURST is mined with HDDs, not GPUs or CPUs. So you can load your rigs with hard drives (to certain extend of course) and mine.

CPU or GPU is used when you plotting, once done, no great calculation power needed, but plotting with celeron will probably take a significantly longer time to accomplish, but doable.

Which pool are you using with 60Tb?

Thanks guys for your quick replies, much appreciated. I'll give it a try, but I have some trouble downloading the blockchain (last try failed at 95%  ???)



If I'm not wrong I can create my plot file on a fast computer, and then move it to the Celeron Rig while optimizing it, correct ?

Optimize first then move it across.

Hi,

If you are using the "in-wallet" plotter, then the plots you are creating are already optimized. No need to optimize them again. Also if you open the plot optimizer it will tell you that the plot is already optimized.

Thank you!

You are welcome! Just make sure you are using the latest wallet version!  ;)

Hi all,

My first try at mining BURST on my Celeron powered ETH Mining Rig went smoothly and everything works fine wihout any conflict. I'm only using a 800GB plot file for now, this is the available space I had on my Rig's HDD. The purpose was mainly to test that it works with the Celeron and with Claymore's ETH miner running at the same time. So the answer is YES ! I will now add external USB drives little by little as I can afford.

But let me explain the steps I went through, because I think there might be other or simpler ways to do things, so please feel free to comment, thanks.

To create my plot file, I have used wplotgenerator.exe Dowloaded from this page (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVIhqKUdve8) but it doesnt creates optimized plot files
I created the plot file (800GB) with my desktop computer (Intel Core i5 4590 - 16GB RAM) so it was quite fast. I created the plot file on an external 2TB USB drive with 1TB space available.

After that, I ran the BURST Plot Optimier GUI (http://imineblocks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/plot_optimizer_gui.zip) and generated the optimized plot file directly on my ETH Mining Rig.


The problem is the plot optimizer is not modifying the unoptmized plot file, it creates a new file, that's why you need to create the optimized file on another drive unless you have enough space on your drive to hold the two files (unoptimized and optimized)

The problem with doing this way is: if you have let's say 4 disks of 5TB, you can hardly optimize the 4th drive because you don't have 5TB of available temporary free space.
You can check the message I left to IMineBlocks about this problem (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6wwM_FO8-8&lc=z12vwplzyzypd11k222uebjzsv3yi3hsj) as a comment to his great video, it explains the problems with more details and an example.


Which wallet are you using ?
I am using this wallet: https://github.com/BurstProject/burstcoin (https://github.com/BurstProject/burstcoin) and there is no option to create plot file, unless I didn't find it ?

Any help will be greetly  appreciated, thanks again !

 

Hi,

I'm using the official wallet (windows)
You can get it here --> https://www.burst-team.us/index.php/wallets/ (https://www.burst-team.us/index.php/wallets/). Download and Install!
No need to wait for local wallet to sync. Just use the online version of the wallet and plot your files. (at the bottom of the wallet)

Something weird happen with mining :(

I'm using this pool - http://burstpool.ddns.net/ and for 30 hours of mining got only 110 BURST coins. I have 17700 Gb, so according to this calculator - http://burstcoin.biz/calculator I should get 219 coins per 24h.

I understand that calculator may have some error bars - but not 250%!

Question - which pools pay honestly?

The calculator is estimated, and your pool needs to find blocks for you to get paid.
Also you are getting paid from blocks that your pool finds, and you have submitted deadlines for that block (and a small % of the next blocks that your pool finds)

Some info from burstmining.club pool:

My wallet can not download blockchain

I try download it form different mirror but it no good

Anyone having the same problem ?

Download the blockchain from this url:

I've been thinking about getting into burst coin as I have 12tb of free had space. Wondering if burst is worth the fuse of plotting, setting up, etc.

Calculator says I can pull in $60 a month.. I'd be happy with $30-45. Is that realistic?

Got it - not it totally makes sense! Thank you for the explanation.

Hi,

I use the exact same wallet (running locally)
After looking at some Youtube tutorials, I could see the buttons you are talking about at the bottom of the wallet, but I don't have them

https://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/640604BURSTwalletm.png

I guess it's a browser issue, but I've tried Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Internet Explorer, and none of them displays those buttons...
Any idea ?

Many thanks !

If you expect 50% of what calculator shows, you are good to go!  ;D

Browser?!?!
The wallet you have downloaded needs to be run as a program on your PC.
Run the "Burst Wallet" NOT the "Burst Wallet on the Web"

Hi,
OFC I do run the burst wallet (client) on my PC
But when I access my wallet through localhost:8125 I don't have the buttons for plotting, mining, etc...

Look: https://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/464931BURSTwallet.png

Hi

You don't access your wallet through a browser at "localhost:8125"
The software you are running is the wallet.
Once you open it, there are 2 options on the top menu at the end of the line, "Local wallet" & "Online wallet" (right after the "about" menu)
"Online wallet" is connecting to https://wallet.burst-team.us:8126/index.html (https://wallet.burst-team.us:8126/index.html) using the browser that is INCLUDED in the wallet you have downloaded.
"Local wallet" is running the wallet using the blockchain that has been downloaded (or still downloading) on your local PC.
You can see the bottom menu using both options (Online wallet, and Local wallet)
Check again.

I think what Ahead mentioned is the aio wallet.
link:https://forums.burst-team.us/topic/16/burst-client-for-windows-v0-3-9-all-in-one-wallet-plotting-mining

AIO (all in one) wallet is the only wallet you can download from Burst website. So I assumed that he has downloaded the correct one.
I'll provide you with the direct link to download then (check if you have the correct one)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/burstwindowswallet/ (https://sourceforge.net/projects/burstwindowswallet/)

That's right shadowlin, I was not aware of this GUI extension of the official wallet, it all makes sense now, thanks a lot !

But from what I see on the forum topic you linked, this GUI uses Janror's CPU plotter, which is what I used to create my plot files that were not optimized... But maybe they made some changes when integrating it into that GUI so I'll give it a try.

And thanks Ahead for your kind explanations

Based on previous comments - you most probably will get ~50-60% of $60 before you will be mining with pool 500 blocks. These numbers will depend on pool you are with. Just check their descriptions

It seems you are smart enough to make predictions, if I may ask how do you do the calculations so it can appear 50-60% of 60%?
I am a little confused with your calculations. thanks

I went to the burst coin calculator with how many tb I can plot and it said ill be making $60/month..

Based on what ive read about burst, those calls are never right.. so i was asking if I can expect to recieve atleast 50% of that..

Most likely. I started mining on the 6th June with 3TB, on the 9th June I added another 3TB. So far I've made 1480 Burst in those 3 weeks (although I did hit a block!).

You in a pool or solo?

Pool (http://pool.burstcoin.space:8124/)

Question:

I have 8 disks which I plot on fast computer using a wallet internal plotter. When I plotted 5th disk I've got the famous message on plots overlapping. I've deleted plots from 5th disk and assigned to it via Windows new letter which was not used for previous 4 disks (K:). I've plotted again - and got again the same error message.
Both overlapping disks had a plots starting from "0", so I decided to start plotting on 5th disk K from "2". Did plot again - and again got error message.

So - can anybody help to plot 5th and the rest of the disks without overlapping?

You should not start from 0, but from the number of plots on the previous disk. Example:
-Disk 1: plots start at 0 and has 13107200 plots
-Disk 2; plots start from 13107200 and has 13107200 plots
-Disk 3: plots start from 26214400 and has 13107200 plots
-Disk 4: plots start from 39321600 and has 13107200 plots
etc...

Hi,

When you are plotting a HDD, and you start let's say from 0, it writes X amount of nonces (for example from 0 to 0000050000), then the next HDD nonces needs to start from 0000050001 to X nonces depending on HDD size
(let's say it writes up to 0000100000), and the next one must start from 0000100001 to X.
Each HDD needs to have it's own range of nonces
example:
HDD1: from 0 to 0000050000
HDD2: from 0000050000 to 0000100000
HDD3: from 0000100001 to 0000150000
HDD4: from 0000150001 to 0000200000

The numbers are an example but I hope you get the point.

In order to choose from what number of nonces to start when plotting a HDD using the in wallet plotter (AIO wallet), when you choose the HDD to plot, on the next window check the "expert mode" checkbox, and add the number of nonce you want to start from.

example of plotted HDD file:

your-account-numeric-ID_12000000000000_60544_60544

explanation:

Your account numeric ID is your wallet address in numeric form.
the 12000000000000 is the nonces number that this HDD starts from
the 1st 60544 is the number of the nonces that this HDD have in plots
the 2nd 60544 is the number that has to do with the memory, but in my experience if the two numbers are the same (last 2 numbers on the plot file, 60544 and 60544 in my case) then the plot is optimized.

I hope I explained ok

Finally got super clear and detailed explanation!

Thank you!

Clannad, thank you too!

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hi, does anyone know if there is a way to the miner to use more memory

Better change the equipment as the manipulations with the hardware can kill your PC. Although the price of powerful equipment is very high, mining can be an interesting and profitable business with it.

mining burst on hard disks is finished long ago. rather would have released a similar coin for mining. and asic devices at once bothered