You all don't understand.  Even though tech geeks such as us understand these coins, the general public, being far dumber, does not.  Bitcoin is having enough problems being accepted all across the world.  The general public cannot comprehend more than one cryptocurrency at a time.  And Burst coin sure as hell has no chance of success.

If you only stake once every few days, you will stake for a much larger amount than if you staked everyday. Stake weight is based on amount of coins and coinage

The staking yield is calculated on a per year average. Trying to monitor it day to day will be frustrating and inaccurate

manners...but good point

Aready used my free vote

Today bittrex disabled burstcoin wallets. Anyone know why?

What is the point of Burst if the hard drive space of the network can't be utilized? I see no mention of any development in regards to actually utilizing the storage space on the network for file storage etc.. on your website or forums.

Why not? It seems like this is the most obvious use for Burstcoin, and without being able to use the HD space then this is pretty much a clone coin with a different consensus algorithm.

Don't get me wrong.. it's cool, but not very useful and therefore not likely to be very valuable.

-ANNOUNCEMENT-

My windows pool mining tutorial is complete. I may have left a few things out, but feel free to read it over and give me some feedback. I put a lot of time into the details for NOOBIES so that they can get started mining


https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bc1LIG0vOYYW6FxgBHhQGjKqm0aWoSClkqaNJx17wWk/edit?usp=sharing


Feel free to let everyone know about this who is having a hard time starting!!!

Thank you!

sorta. But more detailed and less pictures. lol.

43k deadline limit is hard. You might want to up that a bit.

Does pool 3 take just your best deadline, or all your deadlines under the limit?

Just so that everyone knows, I am in the process of writing an updated, detailed windows noobie getting started guide/tutorial complete with links and detailed instructions. I am about half way done, and will most likely finish it tomorrow, I will then post it on burstforum.com for everyone, and likely here as well.

Thanks! 

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=oYlf1xFTHvs
Feel 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.

lol sent coins back. Also with the miner.exe where do i run that from and the conf where its saying the file location for the plots I changed to the location of where miner and plots are and just opens then closes and dosent mine

You're stubborn 

Wait for it to get 4 conformations, then you're good to go

have never had any coins set to me so no transactions only been solo mining and not generated any blocks and wanted to start pool mining

block chain up to date no coin's sent or received  however miner works perfectly fine solo mining just errors and when running exe file it just auto closes

Cant get it to work nore the miner.exer jsut auto closes even after trying to set up.

Any full instructions on what to do as downloaded have plots done and edited confi file and i cant even get the config part to eve nwork on adding recipient on wallet

Run your burst client (wallet)
Using your browser go to
http://127.0.0.1:8125/rewardassignment.html
on the bottom ( see "Set reward recipient" )
Put your account secret passphrase there (the one you use to login into your wallet)
set recipient as
5611701311637421489

all i get is the following error {"errorCode":5,"errorDescription":"Unknown account"}

hah
Unfortunately my usual deadline is higher than 432000

Which of the 3 pools would you suggest for 12TB ploted space..

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in about 10 days or so the reward will be 9000/block we need more exchanges to have more buy pressure

if you join the pool , that if you find a block, you will share the block with other miners who submit the shares, and if they find blocks, they will also share the block with you if you submit the shares, most of your coins is from the other miners who found the blocks.
if you solo, then you will get 9500 burst a block, but if you didn't find the block, you will get nothing