Hey all, I am new to Ethereum.
Anyone got some advice for mining? I have tried using my 860M (nvidia) to mine using geth and ethminer, blockchain is synced, dag is created, but my display driver keeps crashing and recovering every time I try to start the mining, thus giving me 0 hashes. So far I have not found any solutions online. I have tried using the "standard" opencl ethminer and also the cuda version. My graphics card drivers are up-to-date.
Don't mine with a laptop. Wow, that is the most helpful advice ever. I have mined many other coins with a laptop, works like a charm. I need to monitor heat levels and use a cooler pad of course, to avoid a meltdown. If anyone is familiar with that particular issue with the display driver versus ethminer, please help. |
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Hey all, I am new to Ethereum.
Anyone got some advice for mining? I have tried using my 860M (nvidia) to mine using geth and ethminer, blockchain is synced, dag is created, but my display driver keeps crashing and recovering every time I try to start the mining, thus giving me 0 hashes. So far I have not found any solutions online. I have tried using the "standard" opencl ethminer and also the cuda version. My graphics card drivers are up-to-date.
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I just bought myself some Income and Margin assets along with a few others. Looking forward to seeing how they work out!
I'm also in the process of plotting 2 TB now, so I should be able to mine a bit more than with 90 GB, lol.
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but small balls merge in 5 seconds.
I see this is back to 30 seconds again? Too bad  I noticed that too.. What a shame, that was the best update to the game I have seen so far. It enabled so many new tactics, made the gameplay 10x as fun and intense, and it also had an effect on reducing the tag-team tactics of the Spanish teams that have no idea what a Caps Lock button is. An idea for reducing teaming in free-for-all playgrounds: If two or more players are caught actively teaming (throwing almost all their blobs into the other team player so he eats everything around him), then the user IDs would be banned from playing in the same playground together. That way it is not as harsh as a total ban from the whole game, but it could still serve as a deterrent. I can imagine creative ways to avoid this, but at least it makes it more of an effort to be a dick. Another idea: Players who have been teaming will get a "GPS"-marker on them as a penalty, so that all the other players in the playground will always see a small arrow or something revealing the direction of his location. Then people like me would always chase the arrow and eat him every chance I get, to punish the bastard. That could be a cool game mode as well I suppose, where one random player has a bounty on him for say 2 minutes and must stay alive, and then the bounty is placed on another random player afterwards. |
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Oh so this is basically a copy of agar.io is this even legal? I mean the game is really good, it's not yours but it's good, the idea is also very good but in the end it can be boring, I played too much agar and after a while it gets boring.
I never played agar.io, but I think that in one of the first pages the devs say chopcoin is based on agar, but with their own modifications... Legal or not? I have no idea, but I am guessing it is. There are other "clones" too, but chopcoin is definitely more fun. Being able to win BTC from playing a great game is why I like it so much, it's a great combo. If lots of more players joined in the lowroller or the higher playgrounds, we could earn even more BTC. I only hope that the devs manage to work things out so that the business model is sustainable. Again, more communication with the community is key here. |
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Too bad I just found out about this now I'm so sick of playing agar already that I just have no interest even though I've spent literally hours on agar.. Then you will love this game, it's amazing  |
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I got the mining working, but I only have 90 GB for now. I guess that won't yield high rewards, but at least it's a start. I'm mining on burst.ninja. |
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Hey devs, mind throwing us a bone about whatever development you got cooking? It almost seems to me as if you have left us chopcoiners to fend for ourselves in the arena. We're having fun of course, but it doesn't hurt to keep us in the loop, and you could attract more players that way too. Win-win.
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I got my wallet activated by receiving and sending now. How can I change the password? I tried to look for information on http://burstcoin.info/, but there are so many links that do not work there... Your password - it's your key for wallet. You can't change a password. New pass = new wallet I thought so, just had to check  Got my disk plotted now, gonna try out mining BURST for the first time if I can make it work |
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I got my wallet activated by receiving and sending now. How can I change the password? I tried to look for information on http://burstcoin.info/, but there are so many links that do not work there... |
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Well, just downloaded the wallet. Gonna give BURST a try! I like the concept and I believe it has a lot of potential.
Could someone please explain these assets that are mentioned here and there?
*snip* Hope that answers some of your questions. Been busy and tired so I hope it made sense. Great, thanks for the information! I am having some slight trouble with the wallet. It says I need to fund it with 1 coin and also send 1 to activate it. I claimed 4 coins from a faucet and sent them to my wallet, but when I refreshed the wallet page I needed to log in again and it looked like my ID had changed - so no coins. Also, how do I include the public key in the first transaction (wallets tells me I have to do that). Am I missing something here? Should I just keep the wallet page open until I receive the coins, and then I can somehow "save" my activated wallet version? |
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Well, just downloaded the wallet. Gonna give BURST a try! I like the concept and I believe it has a lot of potential.
Could someone please explain these assets that are mentioned here and there?
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I don't know if anyone mentioned it already, but could the exchange https://c-cex.com/ be anything for SPR? I am not familiar with the exchange myself... |
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Hi all, I just heard about Burst today, and it looks interesting! I'm gonna read up some more on this later, but I have a few questions first:
Should I read up on the old thread or focus on this new one?
Can an SSD be used, and does it have any advantages/disadvantages over a HDD?
If you wanna learn about burst, you should read the old thread, if you are going to be ignore the past, focus on the new one. If you use a SSD you get your deadlines posted to the network before other miners. On pools you will also be a part of very fast blocks. SSD is more expansive, so cost wise, they are not worth it, but they use less electricity and can last almost forever (If you don't write to them). OK, thanks for the info, mate! |
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Lots of CPU (and disk) load because of constant indexing and hashing/structuring of all the blockchain data coming from all the daemons you will run.
Quite some bandwidth because of all the communications that the servicenodes will have with each other, with the spreadcoin network, and ofcourse all the daemons will cause their own respective traffic too.
No GPU load.
Could you give a rough estimate of what kind of hardware specs a SN machine will need? The specs will of course affect the VPS prices, especially if you are going to go for good enough equipment (so it doesn't melt) and a reliable provider (that doesn't throttle you down). |
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Well, yes, to answer your specific question more directly:
Yes, you might miss out on reward if you have too much SPR in an address. But then again, it's not just about splitting large sums into smaller sums. It's also about successfully operating multiple servicenodes, which isn't childsplay. I believe you said there will be a tutorial available at a later point. Is there anywhere else I can read up to "prepare" for running a SN? So, I don't look at it as a risk, but rather a question of reward:
A person that is technically capable of running multiple well-permorming servicenodes should have the possibility to milk the reward multiple times.
BUT: there is a continuous spread of how well he can "thin out" his collateral and spread it over his servicenodes while maintaining a strong claim on each seat.
That makes sense then. I also can't help notice the underlying erotic tone here. LOL. |
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Yes, the only thing that concerns you as a servicenode operator is: can you claim the "periodical" reward or not?
That's literally the only "financial" risk you have: that you might be running a servicenode for a period without getting payed for it (because you were kicked, or have a very low score, or something else is broken/invalid)
Next to this financial risk there are ofcourse other risks, like your server getting hacked, or your bandwidth getting throttled down because you have a cheap VPS, etc...
OK, cool. I have never run a full node of anything before, but I saw the posts mentioning the computer and bandwidth requirements some pages back. Will SN server machines run "heavy" like a machine that is mining, with wicked CPU/GPU load etc., or is it mostly data flowing to and from teh internets? This info will come in handy when I go to get some intel from a VPS provider I have in mind. |
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Servicenodes
I understand that when you place a certain amount of SPR as collateral, you get a SN seat (so long as you are not the weakest link and thereby "kicked" when someone outbids you). Do you lose any of this collateral in the event that you are outbidded? If not, then it's just to increase the amount and go again, right?
In theory, I guess you can put all of your SPR as collateral to secure a seat, but the drawback will be that you have no SPR left to run several more SNs, thus making it less lucrative. Am I right? Just trying to work out the mechanics here...
Yes, collaterals aren't "payments to someone" (that this someone might take away from you). No, they are basically "tied lookup addresses" that the network/protocol will constantly check to see if you match the criteria. Yes, there is a spread between less risk and more reward! It's up to you to find out what suits you best. Thanks for the answer. And just to be clear: When you say risk you mean simply for instance tying up too much SPR so you earn less (because you could have had multiple SNs), and not risk related to any other loss factors I should be aware of? Like if SN reputation, kick rate, stats or similar affect earnings negatively in the long run? |
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Servicenodes
I understand that when you place a certain amount of SPR as collateral, you get a SN seat (so long as you are not the weakest link and thereby "kicked" when someone outbids you). Do you lose any of this collateral in the event that you are outbidded? If not, then it's just to increase the amount and go again, right?
In theory, I guess you can put all of your SPR as collateral to secure a seat, but the drawback will be that you have no SPR left to run several more SNs, thus making it less lucrative. Am I right? Just trying to work out the mechanics here...
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Any point in GPU mining with 1x GeForce GTX 860M, or will I never find any coins?
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