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Does anyone know how to make Blagos miner 'error out' faster on fast blocks? When a fastblock happens and if the previous mine hasn't completed, the miner will just sit there anywhere from 0-30 seconds playing with itself before it realizes it should move on. I've been watching this happen like clockwork over the past week or so, precious mine time is lost on the new block. If there are two fast blocks in a row, it may be even skip the middle one completely.

This can't be fixed from the user end?

Did not observe such problems. You can pm to me screenshot and log file when this happens?

Not sure how to take pictures of this. Sometimes the miner will just 'stop' mining when a new block happens, occasionally it will start immediately on the new block, but usually it'll just sit there for a little bit. Sometimes it'll spit out some 'fast block or corrupt file. When this happens the % will sometimes sit there after it moves onto a new block, other times there wont be a percentage or a readout (where there normally is) when the new block starts).

Even when it moves onto the next block without displaying the 'fastblock or corrupt file' message and the percentage just freezes, it wont always move on right away to the next block.

From what I've seen it doesn't transition smoothly. This 'transition' isn't consistent. I can watch two different computers mine and even if both get stuck because of a fast block, one sometimes moves on a lot faster (sometimes immediately) compared to the other.


Stopped at Fast block for fastblock but waited 2 minutes:


Stopped at 15% but still waited 1min45s:


Update on this, it appears as though this only happens when I solo mine or use a Uray pool. When I use the dev pool this hasn't happened.
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Burst OS & ARM Support

Currently i'm developing an all-in-one GNU/Linux OS for Burst, it will have all the software needed to use the wallet and mining tools converted to GUI, open source, with own repository for install or update your wallet/mining tools easily and a documented wiki. Today was thinking to support ARM boards too (like Raspberry, Banana Pi/Pro, Cubietruck ...) but i dont have any ARM board to do some tests and developt it correctly. So this CF will be to help me to buy a Banana Pro (it cost like 50-60€, has SATA2 and a good read speed, 100MiB/seg, i think that cheap mini-pc can mine Burst with low energy usage). All the excess will be donated to the Burst PR team.

You can help me and Burst OS developtment via CF AT.

If you dont know about Burst Crownfunding AT, check HERE.

Thank you all,
Kartojal.
the bananapi works great for mining. i did already some tests with it. the most tricky part was to compile a custom kernel to enable sata port multipliers for the controller. during operation the most tricky part is to prevent concurrent traffic on the sata port due to the very low memory bandwidth the device has.
after replacing the shabal files with the ones for arm the dcct miner is capable to mine with up to 8tb within blocktime on this piece of hardware.
plotting may be done on external systems cause this lowend dualcore is only able to plot with about 300 nonces/minute.
also it may be a good idea not to plot over network cause it may increase the plotting machine idle time unproportional compared to direct attached.
if you plug in the drive for plotting into a windows box i am not sure if there is any way to get rw access to xfs, ext4 or zfs.
then plotting over network may be the only option.
running the java wallet directly on the banana pi during mining may become a memory bottleneck but i did'nt test it.
as standalone mining machine with up to 6 tb this approach is a solid standalone solution (beside the java based wallet (poolmining should be fine) and the initial plotting).

maybe you can also try to get the banana nas project (http://bananas.gda.pl/help/blog/) onboard to include your burst mining repositories.

also in march there shall be the next gen banapi available which has hopefully a quad or biglittle 64bit octacore (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bananapien/4q6APtYqw5I):

ion wang    
Feb 16


we will ready it within March

On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 17:09:19 UTC+8, jaguar431 wrote:
Raspberry Pi 2 arrived to the market. When can we expect Banana Pi 2?
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My wallet agrees with your wallet.

I had in the past several 'differences' to burstpool.eu, so I am not trusting it too much.

host burstcoin.eu
burstcoin.eu has address 176.9.101.198
burstcoin.eu mail is handled by 10 mail.burstcoin.eu.

Last pieces of traceroute:
16  core21.hetzner.de (213.239.245.222)  295.193 ms core11.hetzner.de (213.239.203.137)  291.135 ms  282.626 ms
17  core22.hetzner.de (213.239.245.226)  284.847 ms juniper2.rz15.hetzner.de (213.239.245.198)  290.074 ms juniper2.rz15.hetzner.de (213.239.245.130)  288.889 ms
18  juniper2.rz15.hetzner.de (213.239.245.130)  288.543 ms juniper1.rz15.hetzner.de (213.239.245.202)  283.531 ms juniper2.rz15.hetzner.de (213.239.245.130)  288.574 ms
19  hos-tr1.ex3k14.rz15.hetzner.de (213.239.244.15)  290.080 ms hos-tr5.ex3k14.rz15.hetzner.de (213.239.226.34)  292.093 ms s1.scriptforge.de (176.9.101.198)  292.795 ms

which wallet is 176.9.101.198 running then?  also, it's not certain that the wallet itself for 176.9.101.198 is running on that IP.
wallet may be running on another system while the 176.9.101.198 is just a webserver (or just a front end IP that is load balancing)
maybe someone can check if 176.9.101.198 is running a wallet directly.

176.9.101.198 is one of my connected wallet peers, running V 1.2.2 and is labeled Burstcoin.eu
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My wallet agrees with your wallet.

I had in the past several 'differences' to burstpool.eu, so I am not trusting it too much.

host burstcoin.eu
burstcoin.eu has address 176.9.101.198
burstcoin.eu mail is handled by 10 mail.burstcoin.eu.

Last pieces of traceroute:
16  core21.hetzner.de (213.239.245.222)  295.193 ms core11.hetzner.de (213.239.203.137)  291.135 ms  282.626 ms
17  core22.hetzner.de (213.239.245.226)  284.847 ms juniper2.rz15.hetzner.de (213.239.245.198)  290.074 ms juniper2.rz15.hetzner.de (213.239.245.130)  288.889 ms
18  juniper2.rz15.hetzner.de (213.239.245.130)  288.543 ms juniper1.rz15.hetzner.de (213.239.245.202)  283.531 ms juniper2.rz15.hetzner.de (213.239.245.130)  288.574 ms
19  hos-tr1.ex3k14.rz15.hetzner.de (213.239.244.15)  290.080 ms hos-tr5.ex3k14.rz15.hetzner.de (213.239.226.34)  292.093 ms s1.scriptforge.de (176.9.101.198)  292.795 ms

which wallet is 176.9.101.198 running then?  also, it's not certain that the wallet itself for 176.9.101.198 is running on that IP.
wallet may be running on another system while the 176.9.101.198 is just a webserver (or just a front end IP that is load balancing)
maybe someone can check if 176.9.101.198 is running a wallet directly.
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is there another fork hapening now?
my wallet is not consistent, for example noticed a difference on block 70125

this info http://burstcoin.eu/block/8988347699161693125 is not what is in my wallet...

anyone else seeing discrepancies?

Interesting.

My Wallet:
Payload Length:   176
Total Amount NQT:   42785896496
Generator:   13465607760192201497
Generator Public Key:   7d4f7107c919cd1c610577075323a23e0c2094b136d418407944a66a74ea5f5a
Base Target:   1446470
Generator RS:   BURST-ZSST-X9ZH-7F97-DLVRP
block_reward:   7350
Next Block:   8106475507075994568
request_processing_time:   1
scoop_num:   3933
Number of Transactions:   1
Block Signature:   3a8d0ff7ca7cfb8f39153ae7efeb2d6751d1859ef670ab427e77e525b58b3d0994f27aae8daa76a 4a227025ff338e7c07465ce8b6ef18f65cf55529e89432de1
nonce:   120576096
Version:   3
Total Fee NQT:   100000000
Previous Block:   5458342756169498915
Height:   70125
Timestamp:   16982025


BurstCoin.eu
umber Of Transactions   0
Total Amount   0.00000000 Burst (0.00000000 BTC)
Transaction Fees   0 Burst
Timestamp   2015-02-23 16:12:44
Generator   BURST-QR5K-FFHZ-3RCD-9SL7T
Block Generation Time   2.52 minutes
Base Target   1427836
Size   0.00 KB
Version   3
Nonce   476128634
Block Reward   7,350.00 Burst


Bunch of weird stuff.  So, who's right?
I have 52 connected peers, 71/79 are up-to-date.   The other 8 are still using various wallets back to 1.1.0... I wish the wallet would auto ban them,  maybe it's a setting in the conf file

There really is no point in growing too fast, PR is great but growing to fast before a solid foundation is formed is going to be very painful.  Technical issues like this should be put to bed.  Again, I am all for PR campaigns, but the more people that come into this community who are not very tech savy the more people who are going to have a bad first impression.

The above example seems like a fundamental crypto-currency issue.  I'm re-quoting because I don't want this to get buried underneath PR high-fiving.
the block before 70125 and the one after is in sync. 70125 is out of synch
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My wallet agrees with your wallet.

I had in the past several 'differences' to burstpool.eu, so I am not trusting it too much.

host burstcoin.eu
burstcoin.eu has address 176.9.101.198
burstcoin.eu mail is handled by 10 mail.burstcoin.eu.

Last pieces of traceroute:
16  core21.hetzner.de (213.239.245.222)  295.193 ms core11.hetzner.de (213.239.203.137)  291.135 ms  282.626 ms
17  core22.hetzner.de (213.239.245.226)  284.847 ms juniper2.rz15.hetzner.de (213.239.245.198)  290.074 ms juniper2.rz15.hetzner.de (213.239.245.130)  288.889 ms
18  juniper2.rz15.hetzner.de (213.239.245.130)  288.543 ms juniper1.rz15.hetzner.de (213.239.245.202)  283.531 ms juniper2.rz15.hetzner.de (213.239.245.130)  288.574 ms
19  hos-tr1.ex3k14.rz15.hetzner.de (213.239.244.15)  290.080 ms hos-tr5.ex3k14.rz15.hetzner.de (213.239.226.34)  292.093 ms s1.scriptforge.de (176.9.101.198)  292.795 ms
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is there another fork hapening now?
my wallet is not consistent, for example noticed a difference on block 70125

this info http://burstcoin.eu/block/8988347699161693125 is not what is in my wallet...

anyone else seeing discrepancies?

Interesting.

My Wallet:
Payload Length:   176
Total Amount NQT:   42785896496
Generator:   13465607760192201497
Generator Public Key:   7d4f7107c919cd1c610577075323a23e0c2094b136d418407944a66a74ea5f5a
Base Target:   1446470
Generator RS:   BURST-ZSST-X9ZH-7F97-DLVRP
block_reward:   7350
Next Block:   8106475507075994568
request_processing_time:   1
scoop_num:   3933
Number of Transactions:   1
Block Signature:   3a8d0ff7ca7cfb8f39153ae7efeb2d6751d1859ef670ab427e77e525b58b3d0994f27aae8daa76a 4a227025ff338e7c07465ce8b6ef18f65cf55529e89432de1
nonce:   120576096
Version:   3
Total Fee NQT:   100000000
Previous Block:   5458342756169498915
Height:   70125
Timestamp:   16982025


BurstCoin.eu
umber Of Transactions   0
Total Amount   0.00000000 Burst (0.00000000 BTC)
Transaction Fees   0 Burst
Timestamp   2015-02-23 16:12:44
Generator   BURST-QR5K-FFHZ-3RCD-9SL7T
Block Generation Time   2.52 minutes
Base Target   1427836
Size   0.00 KB
Version   3
Nonce   476128634
Block Reward   7,350.00 Burst


Bunch of weird stuff.  So, who's right?
I have 52 connected peers, 71/79 are up-to-date.   The other 8 are still using various wallets back to 1.1.0... I wish the wallet would auto ban them,  maybe it's a setting in the conf file

There really is no point in growing too fast, PR is great but growing to fast before a solid foundation is formed is going to be very painful.  Technical issues like this should be put to bed.  Again, I am all for PR campaigns, but the more people that come into this community who are not very tech savy the more people who are going to have a bad first impression.

The above example seems like a fundamental crypto-currency issue.  I'm re-quoting because I don't want this to get buried underneath PR high-fiving.
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Maybe it would be better not to use a FAKE account, ... lol

While time is important, however, I saw already differences by using the wrong timezone ;-)
multiple people are confirming this.  it's not isolated to a single user (i.e. me).  also to put the clock thing to rest, personally I synch up every 15 seconds.  I would venture to guess that anyone who has been bursting a while already took care of the clock synch.

how is it that we get these mysterious mini-forks?  what causes them?
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Maybe it would be better not to use a FAKE account, ... lol

While time is important, however, I saw already differences by using the wrong timezone ;-)
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Can be your clock time? Burst need good time syncronization Smiley

The time is set to sync to an internet time server.  Plus, doesn't the time sync issue have more to do with solo mining?  Any block that is in my db that I did not solve was just relayed to me by other peers.  *shrugs*
it's not the clocks, nor is it the first time I catch this.  I've posted about this before. never got an explanation that made any sense.
something is not quite right with burst and it has to do with pools vs. solo miners I suspect.
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Can be your clock time? Burst need good time syncronization Smiley

The time is set to sync to an internet time server.  Plus, doesn't the time sync issue have more to do with solo mining?  Any block that is in my db that I did not solve was just relayed to me by other peers.  *shrugs*
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 Can be your clock time? Burst need good time syncronization Smiley
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is there another fork hapening now?
my wallet is not consistent, for example noticed a difference on block 70125

this info http://burstcoin.eu/block/8988347699161693125 is not what is in my wallet...

anyone else seeing discrepancies?

Interesting.

My Wallet:
Payload Length:   176
Total Amount NQT:   42785896496
Generator:   13465607760192201497
Generator Public Key:   7d4f7107c919cd1c610577075323a23e0c2094b136d418407944a66a74ea5f5a
Base Target:   1446470
Generator RS:   BURST-ZSST-X9ZH-7F97-DLVRP
block_reward:   7350
Next Block:   8106475507075994568
request_processing_time:   1
scoop_num:   3933
Number of Transactions:   1
Block Signature:   3a8d0ff7ca7cfb8f39153ae7efeb2d6751d1859ef670ab427e77e525b58b3d0994f27aae8daa76a 4a227025ff338e7c07465ce8b6ef18f65cf55529e89432de1
nonce:   120576096
Version:   3
Total Fee NQT:   100000000
Previous Block:   5458342756169498915
Height:   70125
Timestamp:   16982025


BurstCoin.eu
umber Of Transactions   0
Total Amount   0.00000000 Burst (0.00000000 BTC)
Transaction Fees   0 Burst
Timestamp   2015-02-23 16:12:44
Generator   BURST-QR5K-FFHZ-3RCD-9SL7T
Block Generation Time   2.52 minutes
Base Target   1427836
Size   0.00 KB
Version   3
Nonce   476128634
Block Reward   7,350.00 Burst


Bunch of weird stuff.  So, who's right?
I have 52 connected peers, 71/79 are up-to-date.   The other 8 are still using various wallets back to 1.1.0... I wish the wallet would auto ban them,  maybe it's a setting in the conf file
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Activity: 248
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I'm not real
is there another fork hapening now?
my wallet is not consistent, for example noticed a difference on block 70125

this info http://burstcoin.eu/block/8988347699161693125 is not what is in my wallet...

anyone else seeing discrepancies?
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Guys i need a bit of help  Cheesy

Burst OS & ARM Support

Currently i'm developing an all-in-one GNU/Linux OS for Burst, it will have all the software needed to use the wallet and mining tools converted to GUI, open source, with own repository for install or update your wallet/mining tools easily and a documented wiki. Today was thinking to support ARM boards too (like Raspberry, Banana Pi/Pro, Cubietruck ...) but i dont have any ARM board to do some tests and developt it correctly. So this CF will be to help me to buy a Banana Pro (it cost like 50-60€, has SATA2 and a good read speed, 100MiB/seg, i think that cheap mini-pc can mine Burst with low energy usage). All the excess will be donated to the Burst PR team.

You can help me and Burst OS developtment via CF AT.

If you dont know about Burst Crownfunding AT, check HERE.

Thank you all,
Kartojal.
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i'm not so expert..
nut i think more and more the network size/difficulty rise,
and less the stagger is important...

but this is just what i'm feeling,
i'm not the dev...

feeling is good, also take a look at the thread in some depth there are people in here that innovate (or helping from outside) like AT work, also, even if coin production drops to 100's it is imperative none of us stops mining.. it is easier with BURST because all one has to do is have external USB drives connected (not so easy with GPU/CPU coins as they "take over" systems) this is one of THE reasons I have entered this coin.. brb

concerns of outsiders are that drive space is "filled" with useful data for mining but useless for anything else.. this keeps Supernet guys worried at night.. but I dont share this concern so much.. I imagine designated drives to keep network secure, right now it is somewhat crazy for we all rush to accumulate but in the future one could imagine blocks of storage magnetic/optical securing the network , and people buying shares to these this is already is happening to a degree

i think we need to focus on this 2 point [red points above]
first, can be fixed easily, if bitcoin price rise, so, miners gain it is secured...
the second it ir hardest to fix..
and I have no idea how to fix it...

Why worry about hard-drive space being filled with mining related info?  What's the difference between having a specialized piece of equipment (ASIC) running a  100k+ calculations every second and a hard drive storing this pre-calculated information?  With BURST we do the mining work one time and store those results for later access.  In every other POW case you have to constantly do the work over and over.

BURST miners are maintaining a public record of transactions just like any other crypto-currency.  Storj can be the decentralized cloud storage, BURST can be a financial tool to run crowd-funding campaigns, lotteries, purchase goods, and transfer money.  Maybe when BURST matures Storj can use the BUSRT chain instead of the Bitcoin chain (Storjx payment token).

That's just my opinion.
 
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https://locktrip.com/?refId=40964

i'm not so expert..
nut i think more and more the network size/difficulty rise,
and less the stagger is important...

but this is just what i'm feeling,
i'm not the dev...

feeling is good, also take a look at the thread in some depth there are people in here that innovate (or helping from outside) like AT work, also, even if coin production drops to 100's it is imperative none of us stops mining.. it is easier with BURST because all one has to do is have external USB drives connected (not so easy with GPU/CPU coins as they "take over" systems) this is one of THE reasons I have entered this coin.. brb

concerns of outsiders are that drive space is "filled" with useful data for mining but useless for anything else.. this keeps Supernet guys worried at night.. but I dont share this concern so much.. I imagine designated drives to keep network secure, right now it is somewhat crazy for we all rush to accumulate but in the future one could imagine blocks of storage magnetic/optical securing the network , and people buying shares to these this is already is happening to a degree

i think we need to focus on this 2 point [red points above]
first, can be fixed easily, if bitcoin price rise, so, miners gain it is secured...
the second it ir hardest to fix..
and I have no idea how to fix it...
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Good job!
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