This is an idiot-proof guide (hopefully) for pool mining at
http://burst-pool.cryptoport.io/ using windows 64-bit, with pictures! I got stuck a few times with setting it up, so I have included a few details and pictures that I hope will help others.
First install or update Java. This may involve removing older versions.
http://www.java.com/en/download/help/index_installing.xml . This should put java in C:\Windows\SysWOW64.
Install or update flash player. You will need this to copy your account ID or numeric account ID in the BURST wallet.
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/Download the most recent version of the BURST wallet from the first page of
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=731923.
Download the pool miner at
http://uraymeiviar.github.io/burst-miner/.
Extract these two files (the wallet and the miner) onto the drive you’re going to be using.
Go the the BURST wallet folder, run the batch file run.bat. A command prompt window should open and run for a minute until you get a line that says “INFO: Burst server 1.1.2 started successfully” (or whichever Burst server is the most recent version). If the window closes, it’s most likely a problem with Java, go back and make sure it’s installed correctly. You can edit the batch file run.bat and put the word ‘pause’ in a second line to keep the window open and see what the error is.
In the wallet folder, click on the BURST wallet internet shortcut. Create a new account.
Wait for the blockchain to download completely. It may take a while, maybe an hour?
Go to the burstcoin faucet at
http://burstfaucet.com/ and put in your wallet address, which should look something like BURST-NSRE-4KG9-6LZ4-ETTG3. Fill out the captcha and you should receive 2 BURST. Alternatively, if you know someone who has BURST have them send you two BURST coins. Wait for the coins to post to your balance, then send 1 BURST to someone. ( You can use my address, BURST-NSRE-4KG9-6LZ4-ETTG3, or the pool’s wallet address, BURST-L28E-WSYC-F4N3-B82AC, if you don’t know of anyone else with an address.)
Go to the Burst pool miner folder. There should be 4 windows batch files.
First, edit the four batch files so that they show the location of java in SYSWOW64. The first part of each of them should read C:\Windows\SysWOW64\java at the very beginning.
Go the the BURST wallet, click on your burst address and click ‘Copy Numeric Account ID’. If you don’t get the drop-down it is most likely because your flash player isn’t working right.
You can also get the account ID number by going to the pool miner folder, creating a text file called ‘passphrases.txt’ and entering the passphrase for your wallet, then double-clicking on the run_dump_address.bat. It will create a file called address.txt with your numeric account ID in it.
Now go back to the run_generate.bat batch file. This is the file that generates your plots. Edit it to:
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\java -Xmx1000m -cp pocminer.jar;lib/*;lib/akka/*;lib/jetty/* pocminer.POCMiner generate [numeric account ID] 0 xxxxxx 1000 y
where ‘xxxxx’ is the number of nonces to generate. What this refers to is how much disk space you’re going to mine with. It is about 4000 per Gb, so if you’re using 1000 Gb, it will be 4000000. ‘y’ is the number of threads to use. There are a few other changes that CAN be made to this, but it only going to run once, so as long as it works you shouldn’t worry about it too much.
In the pool miner folder, double-click on run.bat. A window will open and close. Now double-click on run_generate.bat and a command window will open and start generating plots. It should start to spit out lines like so:
Generating from nonce: 0
Writing from nonce:0
Generating from nonce: 1000
Writing from nonce:1000
This means you are generating plots. Let it run all the way through, it will stop at the number of nonces you told it to generate and close. It will take a very long time, hours and hours. One of my computers took 36 hours to finish.
If you are running another miner on your graphics cards (scrypt, x-11, blake, etc.), that miner might slow down until you are finished generating plots. Don't worry, it will speed up again after the plots are finished generating.
Now to set up the pool.Go to
http://127.0.0.1:8125/rewardassignment.html. . Under ‘Set reward recipient:’ in the ‘passphrase’ box enter your passphrase. In the ‘recipient’ box enter 10745596296835956940. (The instructions for this are at
http://burst-pool.cryptoport.io/howto.html ) If you did not wait for the blockchain to finish downloading in the wallet, then it won’t work. Wait for it to finish and try again.
Now go back to the pool miner folder. Edit the run_mine.bat batch file to:
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\java -Xmx1000m -cp pocminer.jar;lib/*;lib/akka/*;lib/jetty/* pocminer.POCMiner mine "
http://burst-pool.cryptoport.io:80"
Now double-click on the run_mine.bat batch file and it should open a command window and start to run. It should start displaying lines that look like:
[“baseTarget”:”4045283”,”height”:”16561”,”generation signature”:4e8g8gfg2fe6f204g82c9e7gh7aa87c7650g7588d9b3gh4f782219va3546c67a”]
and occasionally give you a result about submitting shares. It may give you an error about submitting shares at first, just give it a while and it should start successfully submitting them.
When it starts successful submitting shares, you can confirm that you are mining by going to
http://burst-pool.cryptoport.io/ and searching for your BURST account ID (BURST-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxx) using ctrl-f. Again, it might take a few rounds, so give it a little time if you don’t find it.
Note: You can start mining without waiting for the plots to finish generating, you'll just have a lower chance of getting anything for it.
What my four batch files look like:
run.bat
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\java -cp pocminer.jar;lib/*;lib/akka/*;lib/jetty/* pocminer.POCMiner %*
run_dump_address.bat
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\java -cp pocminer.jar;lib/*;lib/akka/*;lib/jetty/* pocminer.POCMiner dumpaddr >address.txt
Run_generate:
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\java -Xmx1024m -cp pocminer.jar;lib/*;lib/akka/*;lib/jetty/* pocminer.POCMiner generate 13867756655654712537 0 3200000 1000 3
run_min.bat:
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\java -Xmx1000m -cp pocminer.jar;lib/*;lib/akka/*;lib/jetty/* pocminer.POCMiner mine "
http://burst-pool.cryptoport.io:80"
Many thanks to KSpinner, who wrote the first guide I went off of at
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=731923.msg8298999#msg8298999 and to billyboy402 at youtube who made a video at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYlf1xFTHvsFeel free to tip them or to tip me. 1 BURST is currently only $.0006, so it’s not that much. Have fun mining!
my BURST address: NSRE-4KG9-6LZ4-ETTG3
****EDIT:***
I wasn't getting anything off of two of my computers with the stagger only at 10. I made a change to the stagger and it seems to be working better. The changed was made to the run_generate.bat file, I changed '10' to '1000' so that my run_generate.bat was read as: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\java -Xmx1000m -cp pocminer.jar;lib/*;lib/akka/*;lib/jetty/* pocminer.POCMiner generate [numeric account ID] 0 xxxxxx
1000 y. It seems to work better.
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