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Topic: [ANN][BURST] Burst | Efficient HDD Mining | New 1.2.3 Fork block 92000 - page 1092. (Read 2170889 times)

newbie
Activity: 49
Merit: 0
if I made a copy of the mine file like mine2.bat
could I run two mine files at the same time to mine twice as fast, or would that cause problems?
sr. member
Activity: 336
Merit: 250
I haven't had a payout since I started last night, I can see my account # listed and shares have been put it in.   I also had to restart plotting again though so maybe I just don't have enough yet  Undecided
sr. member
Activity: 280
Merit: 250
I know that using USB 3.0 external drives works fine, but I have a limited # of USB 3.0 spots!  What are the limitations with USB 2.0?  Would it be ok to generate plots on a USB 3.0 port, then plug into a USB 2.0 port and mine?

Would it be ok to generate plots on a USB 2.0?  Is the only downfall here getting bottlenecked by the read/write speed of USB 2.0?  More info on this would be great, because I'd like to have more than 2 external drives to mine on (I only have 2 USB 3.0 ports).  Thanks for the knowledge share Smiley
Get one of these: http://www.amazon.com/Anker-7-Port-Adapter-High-Capacity-Chipset/dp/B006TT91TW/
I've got 5x 2TB drives running off 1 USB3 port with that just fine.

I think there is something wrong with the new pool.

My shares went down from 107 to 101 on http://178.62.39.204:8121/shares. I guess this is not how it is meant to be.  Cry

yeah they're trying to stole your shares, they stopped payout for 3h ago...
stay away

i think it is works fine, pool only pays you when it find the block and you submit the shares on that block, i got the pay one hour ago, and no payout in these time, may be pool can not find the block as frequently as we thought, still have lots of people continue to solo , lots of they have 10+TB or 20+TB,and even have 40TB+, they can compete with the pool


I'm watching this current block, there are users with less shares that minutes ago.
Can someone tell me why?

It's PPLNS
newbie
Activity: 49
Merit: 0
Is there a way to auto resume plotting from where it left off? We've have some good storms down here and the power has went off a couple of times, causing me to hafta restart generating.

The only thing I have come up with is to put multiple java lines with increasing nonce values on each line. So when one command finishes, it saves that file and starts the next.

legendary
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Merit: 1072
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can someone link the plot overlap tool, I can't seem to find it. lol
full member
Activity: 154
Merit: 100
Add me on Twitter! @AnonOnAMoose
Soon WD and Seagate will support us if they get aware of this coin  Grin Grin

How many graphic cards sold AMD because of Bitcoin and Alts? Are any numbers out there?

Someone working for a HDD company or knows someone there?

I was literally just having a conversation about this.

This coin could bring on the next bitcoin bubble. Last year, during the last bubble, the GPU price skyrocketed because of Litecoin mining. This brings in more Google searches and thus, new money.

The cost of hard drives will go up significantly, as the profitability rises. News networks may even be mentioning BURST by name... XD
sr. member
Activity: 280
Merit: 250
I know that using USB 3.0 external drives works fine, but I have a limited # of USB 3.0 spots!  What are the limitations with USB 2.0?  Would it be ok to generate plots on a USB 3.0 port, then plug into a USB 2.0 port and mine?

Would it be ok to generate plots on a USB 2.0?  Is the only downfall here getting bottlenecked by the read/write speed of USB 2.0?  More info on this would be great, because I'd like to have more than 2 external drives to mine on (I only have 2 USB 3.0 ports).  Thanks for the knowledge share Smiley

Sure you can use USB 2.0 ports, but expect ~5% less shares/blocks with a 4TB (compared to the same on USB3.0) drive. You can always switch from USB2 to USB3 ports and use the same plots.
legendary
Activity: 1164
Merit: 1010
I know that using USB 3.0 external drives works fine, but I have a limited # of USB 3.0 spots!  What are the limitations with USB 2.0?  Would it be ok to generate plots on a USB 3.0 port, then plug into a USB 2.0 port and mine?

Would it be ok to generate plots on a USB 2.0?  Is the only downfall here getting bottlenecked by the read/write speed of USB 2.0?  More info on this would be great, because I'd like to have more than 2 external drives to mine on (I only have 2 USB 3.0 ports).  Thanks for the knowledge share Smiley
sr. member
Activity: 302
Merit: 250
Soon WD and Seagate will support us if they get aware of this coin  Grin Grin

How many graphic cards sold AMD because of Bitcoin and Alts? Are any numbers out there?

Someone working for a HDD company or knows someone there?
member
Activity: 84
Merit: 10
Please donate some BURST to our dev as he releases features! No premine on this coin, and it is the most innovative in months, maybe even years.

That's right. I'd like to know, in addition to Dev, who are the other people who are working for the success of this money and their tasks in the project. Is right to thank them all.  Cool
hero member
Activity: 686
Merit: 500
Is there any way to mine with my local pc on a plot stored online!?

You would have to download 0.025% of that for every block

So, no way..? If I have 1 TB plot I need to download 25mb in less than few seconds right?!

Thats 250MB for every block. On average every 240 seconds.

Yes, 250mb, sorry! Ok.. No way! What a pity! I've 36 TB free online storage  Grin
sr. member
Activity: 280
Merit: 250
Is there any way to mine with my local pc on a plot stored online!?

You would have to download 0.025% of that for every block

So, no way..? If I have 1 TB plot I need to download 25mb in less than few seconds right?!

Thats 250MB for every block. On average every 240 seconds.
hero member
Activity: 686
Merit: 500
Is there any way to mine with my local pc on a plot stored online!?

You would have to download 0.025% of that for every block

So, no way..? If I have 1 TB plot I need to download 250mb in less than few seconds right?!
full member
Activity: 154
Merit: 100
Add me on Twitter! @AnonOnAMoose
How high do you think the price will rise?

It depends on how fast the bubble happens. We have a pretty high inflation rate, but we should easily be in top ten market cap.

I believe first real bubble we will see anywhere between 3-5k.

Good to see us on coinmarketcap now. That is a big step!

As previously stated, every feature that comes will raise the price quite nicely. That is the beauty of having a coin from scratch like this. Please donate some BURST to our dev as he releases features! No premine on this coin, and it is the most innovative in months, maybe even years.
hero member
Activity: 672
Merit: 500
How high do you think the price will rise?
sr. member
Activity: 280
Merit: 250
Is there any way to mine with my local pc on a plot stored online!?

You would have to download 0.025% of that for every block
hero member
Activity: 686
Merit: 500
Is there any way to mine with my local pc on a plot stored online!?
sr. member
Activity: 462
Merit: 250
I can find my address and submitted at http://178.62.39.204:8121/shares, however I can not find my address on http://178.62.39.204:8121/balance. Nor have I recieved any payouts.

Do I need a certain amount of submitted shares to get listed on the "balance" or get a payout...?

Thanks

I think the number next to my address is how many BURST coins I have, and it pays out at 500 BURST.  Right?

At http://178.62.39.204:8121/shares, the number behind the address is the number of submitted shares.

The number behind the address at http://178.62.39.204:8121/balance is your earned burst.

In my case I've got accepted share but nothing at the balance/burst page.

Is this normal?  Huh

Pool hasn't found a block with you yet, I think. Once it does, you will see burst in your balance and it will pay out once you get over 500 burst.



I just want to confirm that Depredation was correct regarding my problem, I'm now recieving payments and my account number is on the pool's balance list  Smiley

Great work with the pool, dev!
hero member
Activity: 518
Merit: 500
Things for BURST to be successful:
Multipool
More Exchanges
Desktop Wallet
Simple Gui miner/plotter
+ git update
+wallet port to C++

Yup, a QT style wallet ported to C would probably make investors happier to trade with burst. A miner and plotter-all-in one application with easier interface would make more people mine this. Or a GUI that can auto perform those tasks in the background.
hero member
Activity: 518
Merit: 500
So how long until people realize you can just as effectively add more volumes to an Amazon EC2 instance than buying harddrives. Wink  This type of mining is ripe for abuse until storage providers adjust their pricing models. Kudos to all the guys who jumped in on this early.  More coins will certainly come. Hopefully with a more straight forward method to getting everything setup.

Yup, long-term vs short-term mining. However, S3 will cost around $30/month/TB, whereas you can buy 5TB hard drives for $200, or around $40/TB, with a 2-3 year warranty. Also, consider that you'll need a beefy EC2 instance to originally generate the plots, so add in a c3.8xlarge, cc2.8xlarge, or r3.8xlarge instance, which can generate somewhere around 14000 nonces/min for $0.28/hr, or around 205GB/hr. So each TB of S3 storage will require around $1.70 for generation, plus $30/month to hold. After three months, a 5TB setup would cost you a bit over $460 to run. Reduced redundancy storage is marginally cheaper, and volume discounts save you a bit over 3% once you cross the 450TB barrier, so S3 doesn't get considerably cheaper.

Here's a cheaper solution for people wanting to do hard drive mining in the cloud:
Find a dedicated server provider who offers high-storage dedicated servers AND high-CPU dedicated servers in the same Datacenter. Look for ones with unlimited or unmetered connections for inside-database transfers. Make sure the port speed on each machine is at least 500Mbps, 1Gbps up for high-CPU and down for storage is preferred.
Rent a high-CPU server for a month, and generate plots.
Move plots from high-CPU box to storage box, using ftp or wget.
Have storage server periodically (once every few hours) restart the mining process to account for newly-transferred plot files.

Of course the above could be easily automated with some creative scripting or some form of network signaling, but even manually the above process requires very little attention, and once your storage server is filled, you can cancel the high-CPU dedicated server, or use it to fill the plots of another storage server. Some datacenters will allow you to rent servers weekly, so you can get a high-CPU server for one week. Be careful with using by-the-hour cloud machines for generation, as not only are they in different datacenters which may cause bandwidth issues, but bandwidth on per-hour servers is almost always very expensive. 1TB of traffic out from EC2 to the internet would cost you around $122.88.

you can host 40tb for about 50$ each tb with marginal power costs on your own hardware.
this may be sufficient to mine for a few weeks.
only drawback is the plot generation.
not sure if vps makes sense.

You would need one or two strong machines, but many people here already have at least one beefy desktop machine they could use for plotting. I would also be careful with VPSes, make sure you get enough bandwidth from them, and also make sure they don't have a policy against pinning CPUs at 100%. Also, you would have to have a powerful internet connection if you are generating plots on some form of cloud service/VPS and downloading them to your drives. These files don't compress very much. Smiley

So how long until people realize you can just as effectively add more volumes to an Amazon EC2 instance than buying harddrives. Wink  This type of mining is ripe for abuse until storage providers adjust their pricing models. Kudos to all the guys who jumped in on this early.  More coins will certainly come. Hopefully with a more straight forward method to getting everything setup.

Yup, long-term vs short-term mining. However, S3 will cost around $30/month/TB, whereas you can buy 5TB hard drives for $200, or around $40/TB, with a 2-3 year warranty. Also, consider that you'll need a beefy EC2 instance to originally generate the plots, so add in a c3.8xlarge, cc2.8xlarge, or r3.8xlarge instance, which can generate somewhere around 14000 nonces/min for $0.28/hr, or around 205GB/hr. So each TB of S3 storage will require around $1.70 for generation, plus $30/month to hold. After three months, a 5TB setup would cost you a bit over $460 to run. Reduced redundancy storage is marginally cheaper, and volume discounts save you a bit over 3% once you cross the 450TB barrier, so S3 doesn't get considerably cheaper.

Here's a cheaper solution for people wanting to do hard drive mining in the cloud:
Find a dedicated server provider who offers high-storage dedicated servers AND high-CPU dedicated servers in the same Datacenter. Look for ones with unlimited or unmetered connections for inside-database transfers. Make sure the port speed on each machine is at least 500Mbps, 1Gbps up for high-CPU and down for storage is preferred.
Rent a high-CPU server for a month, and generate plots.
Move plots from high-CPU box to storage box, using ftp or wget.
Have storage server periodically (once every few hours) restart the mining process to account for newly-transferred plot files.

Of course the above could be easily automated with some creative scripting or some form of network signaling, but even manually the above process requires very little attention, and once your storage server is filled, you can cancel the high-CPU dedicated server, or use it to fill the plots of another storage server. Some datacenters will allow you to rent servers weekly, so you can get a high-CPU server for one week. Be careful with using by-the-hour cloud machines for generation, as not only are they in different datacenters which may cause bandwidth issues, but bandwidth on per-hour servers is almost always very expensive. 1TB of traffic out from EC2 to the internet would cost you around $122.88.


The service you are offering is a good deal and more convenient. So, some would be better getting a service from someone like you or run their own storage server. Power cost are really low, even with a 20x 4TB HDD array compared to gpu/asic mining.

For sure, power costs are nothing in comparison to traditional mining. For the heck of it, I put a kill-a-watt on an external 4TB hard drive (WD MyBook) for burstcoin mining load, it averaged around 5.2W under reading load, and 4.7W under idle. At an electric price of $0.15/hr, 4TB (3.63TB after formatting) of BURST mining power would cost you $6.84/year (if reading 24/7, more like $6.47 for normal BURST read times per 4m block), plus the price to run a very low end machine to do the actual mining. However, that one machine could easily host 10+ hard drives with the same box power consumption, and many people have a machine they leave on 24/7 anyhow, whether a personal machine or a mining rig.

I'm doing between 138~150 watts while plotting and mining. Just mining, around 105~110 watts. This is with 4 HDD's, 3TB total. Same rig gpu mining with HD7970's on low wattage algo's, 1000~1100 watts with negative profit margin.
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