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Topic: [ANN][BURST] Burst | Efficient HDD Mining | New 1.2.3 Fork block 92000 - page 1313. (Read 2171083 times)

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I only have like 500 GB, hopefully I can still get some.
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This seems really interesting. I have a few terabytes ready to be used. Smiley
legendary
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good, ssd miner?

so space over speed...
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Technically, this mining process can be mined POW-style, however mining it as intended will yield thousands of times the hashrate, and your hardware will sit idle most of the time. Continuously hashing until a block is found is unnecessary, as waiting long enough will cause any nonce to eventually become valid.

Doesn't this imply an optimum by "doing both?"  Can you just keep a cache over your plot hashing work instead of storing all of the scoops themselves, and balance the trade-off to your hardware by adjusting cache size and expiration?  It feels like this might have a unique inflection point on memory hardness.  I'm not sure if this would be good news or bad news.  Cheesy

I do like the mechanism for handling block interval.  Having advance knowledge as to when you will default to having found a block may have some interesting implications.  Are there any other coins that work in this fashion of claiming a pre-signed ticket after some expiration?  Does this make such a network particularly susceptible to some of the social engineering attacks?

This might actually be a coin to watch.  Though I remain particularly skeptical of any ANN before seeing source code, this one has some of my interest for the moment.
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Is there a maximum size of disk space?

Technically, since the nonce is a 64-bit number there are 2^64 possible plots for each address, which if you stored them all would take up a total of 4398046511104TB. If you actually got up there(and something else didn't break first), you could just make another address.

How many coins i can generate if i have like 1tb hdd?

No one knows that until it launches.
legendary
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How many coins i can generate if i have like 1tb hdd?
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Is there a maximum size of disk space?
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So as it's Java, no problems running on OSX or Linux?
Correct.
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Data Centers will just EAT this coin alive LOL
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So as it's Java, no problems running on OSX or Linux?
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Can you release it when I'm not asleep? :-)
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You mention that the miner will be released 3 hours before launch. Will that be enough time to prepare a 1TB hard drive?
No. If you have a good processor, you can probably do about 100GB in 3 hours. You can run 2 instances of the miner, one for generating plots, and one for mining with plots at the same time, and it will mine with what you've prepared.

So SSD will give more number of coins than HDD ?
HDD read speeds are fast enough for this. There is no benefit to SSDs.

Would you need an os installed or can I set it to use a different drive than miner is on.
The miner runs on the Java JVM. Anything that you can run java programs on should work.

My pc has 4 hdd's, can I mine with more than one drive?


Yes. When mining, run an instance of the miner on each drive. You may want to cap the ram usage though(ex: -Xmx500m), since the JVM tends to store no longer needed stuff too long and uses up all your ram if you don't force a lower cap. The .bat/.sh scripts included in the miner will already have that flag set.
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My pc has 4 hdd's, can I mine with more than one drive?

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Would you need an os installed or can I set it to use a different drive than miner is on.
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So SSD will give more number of coins than HDD ?
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You mention that the miner will be released 3 hours before launch. Will that be enough time to prepare a 1TB hard drive?
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Very interesting concept.  Is pool mining theoretically possible or would the network consist of all solo miners?
Since plots are good only for mining to one address, the only way a pool would work under the current protocol would be for a pool to supply addresses to miners, and have them generate plots and mine to those addresses. The pool would be able to gauge approximate disk usage based on how low the average result is. The problem with that though, is miners would have to regenerate plots in order to switch pools, which is a slow process, so miners would be fairly stuck on the pools they chose.

One possibility for the future might be to allow an address to declare that their mined coins go to an alternate address. The user could submit their results every block to the pool so it can estimate disk usage, and dish out coins accordingly.
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I would delete those hdmovies for this.
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Very interesting concept.  Is pool mining theoretically possible or would the network consist of all solo miners?
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