Well whoever designed it did a real piss poor job if you have to compile the damn thing to get it to work!
i suppose you even have not try to flow the step by step guide totally, and complained three times, and how many hdd do you have , if not much , i suggest you can give up , because this when you finished this"dame thing" , you will find it is hard to mine a coin now, and you will blame more.  You don't have to compile anything unless you know how to tweak the java code and want to improve it somehow. If you don't have a TB or larger at the current diff, mining will be more challenging. Like jzhoulon said, read it step by step and a little resourcefulness, you should be fine. A little due diligence and you should be fine. |
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I'm not going to re-read a hundred frickin pages, at least link me a useful post or what page it's on.
Read on the OP and look at the link for windows. Also, I made a thread on mining it to kind of clean it up, hopefully: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=740158.0 |
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Well this is bullshit. The least they could do is offer a wallet and miner that WORKS without having to be a software engineer and just somehow know what to do and how to do it to make the damn thing work!
If they are going to release a half assed half completed piece of hsit program they might as well not do it at all.
Or maybe I just forgot to do something or I don't know about something I need.
Trust me, I was frustrated at first too, I have a cert in IT Networking(Cisco). So, just read up and ask people for help. You would be cursing more if you had to write the code and compile it. |
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Finally a freakin damn block...Deadline 202 on 2357...I was about to lose hope in this...lol
Woot!!!! Congrats buddy I just got home from grocery shopping and I saw my deadline was at 202....lol....Lowest in the pass two days I seen is get only 1153.... Guess it's time for me to pony up on more hdd's...lol |
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Offering 250K for 1 BTC.  Oi So low. I seriously hope someone takes this away from him. yes ,so low , we need make a formal exchange.. It's his own free will to whatever he thinks is fair to sell it. Honestly, I would rather wait for it to get on an exchange. |
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Finally a freakin damn block...Deadline 202 on 2357...I was about to lose hope in this...lol
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Volume is drying up on this coin....no buyers only seller?
I think Bter was the largest XCN exchange, but with the recent NXT hack people are probably hesitant to use Bter. Is anyone working on a AMD variant of the GPU miner? |
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Is there a future in Harddrive Mining. If people don't know what I mean I'm referring to the altcoin BURST which is mined through Proof of Capacity i.e. Harddrive space...
My question is whether there is a sustainable future in this and whether this will be the latest development in the crypto mining world?
PoC mining can be, if the data is used for something positive and useful. In Burst, it's just creating data to make currency only. Here's the link for other to see the thread on it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=731923.0Here's a thread I did for PoC mining: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=740158.0Most of the info about mining is on the Burst thread, but I took some of the info and put it in a dedicated thread. |
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i wonder whether the passphrase ppl are using has any baring on the luck ppl are experiencing. i for one used lastpass to generate a 100 character passphrase consisting of only characters that look like random combination of words joined together.
I can assure you: The passphrase has nothing to do with your chances of finding a block. About the GPU issue: I've just finished an OpenCL-Test-Implementation. On an R280X it takes ~22s for 10k nonces, assuming the final hashes are pre-calculated. With a block time of 5 minutes that GPU equals ~35GB of disk space while consuming 200W of power. No real alternative. Is this for the plot generation? Of course. That speed is the same as mining with a 26.6GB plot file, except drawing significantly more electricity. It will however all you to generate plots at about 4.6 hours / TB That's better than the cpu, currently at 200GB per 8~12 hours. I'd personally would use the gpu implementation. |
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i wonder whether the passphrase ppl are using has any baring on the luck ppl are experiencing. i for one used lastpass to generate a 100 character passphrase consisting of only characters that look like random combination of words joined together.
I can assure you: The passphrase has nothing to do with your chances of finding a block. About the GPU issue: I've just finished an OpenCL-Test-Implementation. On an R280X it takes ~22s for 10k nonces, assuming the final hashes are pre-calculated. With a block time of 5 minutes that GPU equals ~35GB of disk space while consuming 200W of power. No real alternative. Is this for the plot generation? |
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Personally I wouldn't buy a Scrypt Asic at the moment with prices so low. I would use that money to just invest in LTC or other note-worthy Scrypt coin. That's just my opinion though.
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To sync onto the correct, longest, fork, use:
Simply start the client with '-connect=76.127.202.17 -maxconnections=1' once you are synced up, you can restart the client without those flags.
So, will you update the OP. It still has those old addnodes. After the seed node is used, do we still have to use any addnodes after that? Have you contact the mining pools and are they finally on the right fork? What will you do in the present to prevent future forks? |
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Anyone experiment with the -Xmx option in the run_generate.bat and the miner.bat? From what I read, it should be in increments of 1024 for the heap size. My system has 8GB of RAM, so would -Xmx4096 maybe help or is 1024 or 2048 ok?
i give the xmx 750 and xms 500 , it doesn't matter with the speed of generator, what matters is you nonce and the last two parameter, thread number and memory. xmx is used for java program can work normally, if you give the small heap, the program will overflow and then crash, this number just needs larger than you last prameter which shows how many memory Thinking of using for the set_generate.bat for a 1.5TB available space: ....-Xmx2048 or -Xmx4096 ..... 0 6041600 1024/2048/4096 4 Guess I'll the miner.bat as is... |
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Anyone experiment with the -Xmx option in the run_generate.bat and the miner.bat? From what I read, it should be in increments of 1024 for the heap size. My system has 8GB of RAM, so would -Xmx4096 maybe help or is 1024 or 2048 ok?
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Hi everyone, hope everyone that is mining Burst is enjoying it and finding blocks. I just wanted to create this thread to sharing info and ideas to improve mining Burst or any future PoC coin. Here is an rough draft of a google spreadsheet I created, please add to it: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uaXMLjLt90Ms1oRjcjz-eYPOkARtNS8JdrKFKOJdg4o/edit?usp=sharingEveryone should have a fair knowledge to mine and to withhold that knowledge would be not good for the crypto-community in general. Be glad to see people helping each other out here and please refrain from getting off topic, only talk about mining PoC and issues with it. If I see any info that is helpful enough to be post on the OP, I will append the OP and add it below. Thank you everybody, SD13
Appended Info:Formula for calculating Nonce Size: x=HDD used data size in GB f(x)=Nonce size f(x)=4096x Guides for mining Burst taken from OP and thanks to the guys for supplying it: Windows mining guide: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=731923.msg8298999#msg8298999 (thanks to KSpinner) Linux mining guide: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=731923.msg8299637#msg8299637 (thanks to TetraHect0rCannabinol) Thanks to dcct, here's a tool to calculate overlapping plots from the Burst thread: https://bchain.info/BURST/tools/overlap
UPDATE: Please do not alter others information on the spreadsheet as a joke, that's downright disrespectful. That would not help the community out. Thanks, this is *very* helpful information on mining Burst, and I'm glad to see it posted as a separate thread. Posting important information on page #80 of an existing thread often means it gets lost in the shuffle. I spent a little while digging through the Burst codebase to try and ascertain this, but got busy with other matters before making much progress. Your very welcome....I feel that the Burst thread is getting too unorganized and that the dev is lacking in updating the OP, not to discredit his time and effort for getting it out there....I will try what I can to keep it clear as possible....I like Burstcoin's mining concept, but I think that the project as a whole is lacking the aspects of organization and urgency of other successful coins, just being honest about that.... |
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Please be sure your using the password from your passphrase.txt file and NOT the password.txt file!
I've done all the steps to get this running right, that's not a step I missed on. Zero blocks still and can't get a deadline below 1500, averaging 10k~150k....I might just do everything all over again and just make a single plot with all 3 500GB drives spanned/raid0 together to see if that helps, recreate the plot. Its quite difficult to find a block now. I have 6TB of plots and more than 14 hours passed between the last 2 blocks. My bet is: You just had bad luck. Still HAVING really bad luck, feel bad for others that are in the same boat as me. I might just wait until a pool is establish before mining again. I'll try making one plot with the drives spanned/raid and do a new passphrase as a last resort for solo mining. I'm still at awe that people with smaller storage are so lucky getting blocks still. I think the earlier comment about the password is valid. I used the wrong password for the wallet during my first hours of mining and it showed 0 blocks. After realizing my mistake I found that I had hit 3. 1.5 TB for 96 hours. Something is wrong or you you are VERY unlucky. 3-4 blocks per day is my avg. and that is with 2 TB currently. (I am still making plots) Did you sync the clock? It's synced with the nist.gov server. I just decide to redo everything all over again and just do a JBOD with the drives to make a single larger plot instead. I'll give it 48 hours and see if anything positive occurs. |
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Please be sure your using the password from your passphrase.txt file and NOT the password.txt file!
I've done all the steps to get this running right, that's not a step I missed on. Zero blocks still and can't get a deadline below 1500, averaging 10k~150k....I might just do everything all over again and just make a single plot with all 3 500GB drives spanned/raid0 together to see if that helps, recreate the plot. Its quite difficult to find a block now. I have 6TB of plots and more than 14 hours passed between the last 2 blocks. My bet is: You just had bad luck. Still HAVING really bad luck, feel bad for others that are in the same boat as me. I might just wait until a pool is establish before mining again. I'll try making one plot with the drives spanned/raid and do a new passphrase as a last resort for solo mining. I'm still at awe that people with smaller storage are so lucky getting blocks still. |
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Please be sure your using the password from your passphrase.txt file and NOT the password.txt file!
I've done all the steps to get this running right, that's not a step I missed on. Zero blocks still and can't get a deadline below 1500, averaging 10k~150k....I might just do everything all over again and just make a single plot with all 3 500GB drives spanned/raid0 together to see if that helps, recreate the plot. |
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So 1TB drive, 24 hours, new settings, still no blocks found. I'm about to give up and FUD this coin!
You can't have 1 TB worth of plots in 24 hours. Unless you have some magic way of creating them. It takes time but the blocks do come. They are getting much much harder to find but it can still be done. you don't need a magic way. i create 2gb plots within a minute so 24h are quite long for 1 tb. you only have to use many machines to calc them  Haha funny man... You're funny, funny man. This is not funny. I have 3 computers mining this crap (1TB HDD, 500GB HDD & 250 GB HDD). No coins yet. Waste of time, energy and harddrive life. I'm giving it until 12pm EST Saturday. After that, this coin is worthless. If a coin cant be mined by "normal" folks, then there will be no place for this coin. I feel you, people keep poking fun of us people that haven't mined a single block ever for this coin. Just because they are gloating they have soooo many blocks with much less storage or whatever. Myself, I've gone 96 plus hours on 1.5TB and zero blocks. Even if this is a low energy mining, zero coins is still zero coins. Eventually energy cost will start to become more of a factor as time goes by. To this date, this is the first coin that I never found a block in the early stages of mining. People must have some kind of insider trade secret or something. I've mined Scrypt the begin of last year, X series coins, XCN, CryptoNote, Proof of Momentum, etc without any issue, actually got blocks. I'm not purposely trying to spread fud, but this has a bad distribution in my opinion. A pool should have been a priority in the beginning before being release to give fair distribution/mining option. |
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Quick question, the expected total supply in a month's time from launching would be 108 Million Burst, am I correct?
4min block time -> 360 blocks per day -> 3.6mil a day -> 129.6mil a month (30 days) ... 3.6 * 30 = 108 not 129.6 yep, something went wrong ... thx 129.6 is 36 days worth...That's a long month....lol |
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