You can still use the partial plot. It will cause an error "error reading file", but it will work.

There is no resume, just start another one with a higher starting nonce.

I'm afraid I was the lucky one buying them..

Just sent you 5k (address in your signature)

You are always talking about C/C++ as a safe alternative. You know what can happen if a buffer overflow is exploited? Or even malicious code is run?

This is not JAVA running in the browser running malicious code here, this is an application from a trusted source, open source, you can compile it yourself. It has less attack vectors compared to a C wallet with equal code quality.

I agree with you we need a C/C++ wallet, but for speed and usability, not safety.

Thanks!

Do you know some cheap adapters? I bought a dawicontrol dc-624e which wasn't cheap.

I like to share an updated version of the Linux C tools. You can download it here:

https://bchain.info/dcct_miner.tgz

First you need to unpack it:
tar -xvzf dcct_miner.tgz

Then compile it:
make

of if you use 32-bit Linux:
make linux32

If you really can't compile it use the ones in "bin".

Now you have 3 tools:

The plot merge utility

If you created your plots with a small stagger size, processing them takes a long time. You might miss your deadline if its found too late!
The merge utility optimizes your already created files making them a lot faster to read.

How to use it?

Start it with one parameter, the input file.

This will read your plotfile and create another one - 1234567890_0_100000_100000 - in your current directory. It now has a stagger size of 100000 which is a LOT better.
When done, delete the input file and put the optimized plot in its directory.
You can now use the optimized file with both the JAVA and the C miner.

This does not work for incomplete plotfiles.

The C plotfile generator

This tool creates plotfiles. It takes the same parameters as the JAVA plotfile-generator.

Start it like this:

The 32-bit version can handle a stagger size of about 15000, lots more (depending on your memory) with the 64-bit version.

Some recommended stagger sizes:
2GB memory -> 4000
4GB memory -> 8000
8GB memory -> 20000
16GB memory -> 50000
32GB memory -> 100000

It creates a directory "plots" and puts your files there. They exactly match the files generated with the JAVA-Tool and can be used with any miner.

The miner

You want to use your plotfiles to generate coins, this is where the miner is used.

The C version has some advantages:
- It uses almost no memory
- A lot faster, multithreaded
- Can handle multiple plot directories

You first have to create a file called "passphrases.txt" and put your passphrase in it. It supports only one passphrase and uses the files first line.
Avoid spaces before/after your passphrase.

Then start the miner:


For example:


Each directory is read by a separate thread. If you use multiple HDD's try to use one directory per HDD, this is fastest.

The miner creates some nice output:

When seconds left approach zero, you likely found a block.

If you like it - you can do me a favor and use/spread my blockchain-explorer http://bchain.info. It does not support BURST unfortunately.

BURST is NXT based which I cant add to the explorer yet, but the difficulty is possible. Put that on my list!

Should be. 24 giga is not much.

For 24TB it would be 18k seconds on average. Looks right to me.

You can average your best deadlines for every block. It should be about (2^64) / (baseTarget * Your total nonces)

Yes its the same result. If they don't overlap of cause!

They should never overlap, and they don't need - but can be sequential.

If in doubt just start with a higher nonce.

Just divide the size in bytes by 262144, thats the total number of nonces.

This way its ok. But never change stagger size or starting nonce.

You know you messed up when you get huge huge deadlines.

I get about 11400000 nonces on one of them.

Technically 1KB is 1000 Bytes, like 1 kilowatt (KW) is also 1000W, not 1024. Its windows thats using the wrong units here.

Yes it reads only a part of it. 256MB/TB of plots.

~1300TB

Basetarget is down to 6164702.
Thats ~3000TB network size!

Anyone here who wants to test the new miner? You need linux (32 or 64 bit) -> PM plz

Ok found someone.

Its plenty. With a lot of ram you can take advantage of large stagger sizes - thus reducing stress to the disk.

While plotting CPU power is most important, after that only disk space matters.

Exactly the same.


When going solo you get the same amount of coins - on average. With just a few TB its more like gambling, but with 10TB you can give it a try.

https://bchain.info/BURST/tools/calculator

10TB is about 2.5 blocks per day - with current diff.