[ANN][BURST] Burst | Efficient HDD Mining | New 1.2.3 Fork block 92000

[haitch]

I read that we plot a large file and only read 1/4096 of it for mining.
Will the 4095/4096 part never read again, or only occasional?
Wouldn't it make sense to copy this 1/4096 to a fast SSD hard disk for mining and continue/replot the real hard disk?

No. On any given round you'll read 1/4096 of the nonces. On the subsequent round you'll read a different 1/4096 of the nonces. Over time all the nonces will be used repeatedly - so you can't move the "1/4096" to a faster location.

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[BChydro]

Are there any multipools  for GPUs or ASICs that payout in BURST? I'd love to jump on one of those

[luxe]

Are there any multipools  for GPUs or ASICs that payout in BURST? I'd love to jump on one of those

Burst had two multipools:

(closed) BurstMultipool.com - many algorithms
(closed) BurstMP.com - scrypt only

They closed month ago, think they had just a few miners ...
Maybe its time to bring them up again, for a second try :-)

[Blago]

"Insufficient privileges to execute the memory list command"

Run as Administrator

Running as administrator, network mounts all show as "0b". No idea why.
Edit: because the mounts were made by the user. If I want the miner running as administrator to access the mounts, the administrator has to mount them.

My user has system-wide Administrator privileges. It should be enough.
Starting to run binaries on a Windows system and doing many actions and mounts as Administrator "just because" is a really bad security model.

You need to be administrator to clear the memory. If you don't want to clear memory, get the latest version of the miner https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=731923.msg10770853#msg10770853 and add ""UseCleanMem" : false, "

If you create a batch file to mount your shares and run the miner, then run that batch file as administrator, only the miner binary has administrator access.

H.

Solved. re-download   https://www.dropbox.com/s/luq6te1j8dn61p2/miner-burst-1.150314.zip?dl=0
if you have "Insufficient privileges to execute the memory list command"  or use "UseCleanMem" : false

[haitch]

"Insufficient privileges to execute the memory list command"

Run as Administrator

Running as administrator, network mounts all show as "0b". No idea why.
Edit: because the mounts were made by the user. If I want the miner running as administrator to access the mounts, the administrator has to mount them.

My user has system-wide Administrator privileges. It should be enough.
Starting to run binaries on a Windows system and doing many actions and mounts as Administrator "just because" is a really bad security model.

You need to be administrator to clear the memory. If you don't want to clear memory, get the latest version of the miner https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=731923.msg10770853#msg10770853 and add ""UseCleanMem" : false, "

If you create a batch file to mount your shares and run the miner, then run that batch file as administrator, only the miner binary has administrator access.

H.

Solved. re-download   https://www.dropbox.com/s/luq6te1j8dn61p2/miner-burst-1.150314.zip?dl=0
if you have "Insufficient privileges to execute the memory list command"  or use "UseCleanMem" : false

Blago

Can you build the miner so if it crashes, it just dies completely? No debug assertions, no prompts, just dead and let the batch file restart it ?

Thanks

H.

[FakeAccount]

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[bensam1231]

[miner]

new version Burst-miner v1.150314
https://www.dropbox.com/s/luq6te1j8dn61p2/miner-burst-1.150314.zip?dl=0

* Tiny changes in algo for faster interrupt the threads (tnx haitch)
* MaxThreads (Paths) increased to 48

Not sure the multithreading is working properly. It does indeed show more threads running, but it does not spread the mine of one drive across multiple processors.

So if I'm mining one hard drive, when a block happens, it'll still just max out one logical processor, even if the drive can read faster.


Something else I've noticed guys. When fast blocks happen, they're won almost always with a sub 100 deadline, which doesn't make sense considering people usually don't have time to scan all their plots. Maybe it's just coincidence? I've only been watching since Blago added the winner stamp to the miner.

Also interesting, in this specific example, the same person won the block before with the same EXACT deadline. This should be extraordinarily rare to the point where it doesn't happen unless fast blocks are special?

[bensam1231]

And my hacked account is coming back to bite me in the ass. I now have negative trust on this one because I confronted one of the people responsible about it. I have been talking with some of you since I've been here and I may need you guys to verify that this is me (bensam123).

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=985555.0

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=991008

[Hubus]

Hello,

I need a faucet to get the wallet started, but the faucet link on you homepages http://www.burstcoin.info/ , http://burstcoin.de/ do not work. Any alternatives? (If you like, send a non-hurting amount to my account , thank you!)

[Merick]

Hello,

I need a faucet to get the wallet started, but the faucet link on you homepages http://www.burstcoin.info/ , http://burstcoin.de/ do not work. Any alternatives? (If you like, send a non-hurting amount to BURST-KLKV-64G5-ZS2L-6F6PP , thank you!

http://burstcoin.eu/faucet

[Hubus]

http://burstcoin.eu/faucet

Ah, thank you, they should update the link...

[bobafett]

Hello,

I need a faucet to get the wallet started, but the faucet link on you homepages http://www.burstcoin.info/ , http://burstcoin.de/ do not work. Any alternatives? (If you like, send a non-hurting amount to BURST-KLKV-64G5-ZS2L-6F6PP , thank you!

http://burstcoin.eu/faucet

burstcoin.de link is fixed

Thank you for the info.

[Hubus]

Thank you for the info.

Welcome!

Another question: Now I get the message:

Warning!: Your account does not have a public key! This means it's not as protected as other accounts. You must make an outgoing transaction to fix this issue.

So I transferred some BURST back to a generous donor (thanks!   ), but still no trace or question of a public key... where is it, when will it appear?

Stop - now it's there after some time and a restart...

[Merick]

Thank you for the info.

Welcome!

Another question: Now I get the message:

Warning!: Your account does not have a public key! This means it's not as protected as other accounts. You must make an outgoing transaction to fix this issue.

So I transferred some BURST back to a generous donor (thanks!   ), but still no trace or question of a public key... where is it, when will it appear?

Stop - now it's there after some time and a restart...

http://burstcoin.info/d/pdf/wallet_v1.2.pdf

[haitch]

[miner]

new version Burst-miner v1.150314
https://www.dropbox.com/s/luq6te1j8dn61p2/miner-burst-1.150314.zip?dl=0

* Tiny changes in algo for faster interrupt the threads (tnx haitch)
* MaxThreads (Paths) increased to 48

Not sure the multithreading is working properly. It does indeed show more threads running, but it does not spread the mine of one drive across multiple processors.

So if I'm mining one hard drive, when a block happens, it'll still just max out one logical processor, even if the drive can read faster.

One thread is created per location you're mining - so if you have one drive - one thread. You can however break the plot up into sub-directories, and then one thread will be used per directory. So in stead of "f:\\", create f:\plot1, f:\plot2 ... and in the miner.conf use "f:\\plot1","f:\\plot2",.....

H.

[Hubus]

A different question:

Would some of you Burst-people mind to explain in my thread, how energy-saving your technology proof of capacity (POC) mining is? I would like someone to compare it to POS and POW:

"Which is the most environmentally friendly, energy-efficient altcoin?":
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=982957.0

For good estimation, we would need a good calculation, of course, and for proof we would need some measurements and extrapolation...

But maybe we could get an idea.

Thank you.

[Irontiga]

A different question:

Would some of you Burst-people mind to explain in my thread, how energy-saving your technology proof of capacity (POC) mining is? I would like someone to compare it to POS and POW:

"Which is the most environmentally friendly, energy-efficient altcoin?":
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=982957.0

For good estimation, we would need a good calculation, of course, and for proof we would need some measurements and extrapolation...

But maybe we could get an idea.

Thank you.

A simple way to put burst mining, is that it is just storing your bitcoin hash rate for hours and hours until ur HDD is full (this is called "plotting"), and then reusing all of that hash rate every 4 minutes(all you have to do is read it and submit it to the network).

The great thing about this is, a $120 investment will get you 4tb....and only be drawing 5-10 watts(CPU adds to this, but nvm that now). This is a few $ / year in power. Now, with BTC, a similar investment would result in an asic which may draw a few hundred dollars in power(don't quote this asic bit, i'm way out of touch with that world since burst). The result of this is, as price drops, BTC miners are forced to turn their miners off, but Burst miners can continue, all that will happen is that roi will get further away. This means that there less danger off the network shrinking and being 51% ed.

Also, with Burst, due to the fact that you first have to plot, it is very hard to just bring a load of power online, it'll take you a while to plot it all, with btc, plugin the asic and ur on your way.

Now if you do consider the fact that CPU's are required for mining, then you would have to add a few watts per HDD.....at least you do if you set up a dedicated mining rig...or a farm.....but not if you are merely mining with ur free space. Those who are just mining with their main computer, well, the comp is o anyway, 0 extra power is used. That's really, really decentralized.

[Hubus]

And a new question, for mining (please let me know if I should read/ask elsewhere):

I set up a harddisk space of 10 GB (although I used the values for 100 GB from the tutorial on http://burstcoin.de/ and the calculator in "plotrechner.xlsx" I only got 1/10 of the expected filesize, maybe it's a mistake there in the excel sheet?).

Anyway, I set the conf file to poolmining (poolV2), and I am currently running it, but I get an error message, repeatedly:

"getaddrinfo failed with error: 11001"

What does it mean?

Thanks

[bobafett]

And a new question, for mining (please let me know if I should read/ask elsewhere):

I set up a harddisk space of 10 GB (although I used the values for 100 GB from the tutorial on http://burstcoin.de/ and the calculator in "plotrechner.xlsx" I only got 1/10 of the expected filesize, maybe it's a mistake there in the excel sheet?).

Anyway, I set the conf file to poolmining (poolV2), and I am currently running it, but I get an error message, repeatedly:

"getaddrinfo failed with error: 11001"

What does it mean?

Thanks

Please post your miner.conf

[Hubus]

Please post your miner.conf

{
   "Mode" : "poolV2",

   "Server" : "178.62.39.204",
   "Port": 8121,

   "UpdaterAddr" : "178.62.39.204",
   "UpdaterPort": 8121,

   "InfoAddr" : "Dev v2 Pool",
   "InfoPort": 8125,

   "EnableProxy": true,
   "ProxyPort": 8126,

   "Paths":["C:\\ZZZ Burstcoin Mining\\plots\\"],
   "CacheSize" : 200000,

   "ShowMsg" : false,
   "ShowUpdates" : false,

   "UseSorting" : false,
   "Debug": false,

   "SendBestOnly": false,
   "TargetDeadline": 600000,

   "UseFastRcv" : false,
   "SendInterval": 200,
   "UpdateInterval": 2000,

   "UseLog" : true,
   "UseCleanMem" : true,
   "ShowWinner" : true,
   "SkipBadPlots" : true

}