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sr. member
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Uray seems to have disappeared, strange it was right after my declining his offer to purchase all of his projects. Hoping he's in good health, and okay.

I talked with him after that and he said he then would be away a couple of weeks in January. Really hopes he come back, he is/was a vital part of BURST.
legendary
Activity: 2282
Merit: 1072
https://crowetic.com | https://qortal.org
Uray seems to have disappeared, strange it was right after my declining his offer to purchase all of his projects. Hoping he's in good health, and okay.
hero member
Activity: 527
Merit: 500
What about https://wallet.burstcoin.io ?
Is it legit ?
Can it be trusted , is it safe to use ?

If I recall correctly, that is uray's online wallet project and is ok.

Wait for more confirmations though, just to be on the safe side that I am not misremembering

Wallet Version 1.5.0 ... i wouldn't use that atm, even IF password is safe.

Damn, uray is in the future Cheesy

On a more serious note, I haven't used it and haven't seen uray in a while so it is quite likely that the project is out of date

Sry, Wallet Version 1.1.5 ... fixed it.

My bad mate, it was quite obvious that you mean 1.1.5. Was just some good natured trolling that is all.
sr. member
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What about https://wallet.burstcoin.io ?
Is it legit ?
Can it be trusted , is it safe to use ?

If I recall correctly, that is uray's online wallet project and is ok.

Wait for more confirmations though, just to be on the safe side that I am not misremembering

Wallet Version 1.5.0 ... i wouldn't use that atm, even IF password is safe.

Damn, uray is in the future Cheesy

On a more serious note, I haven't used it and haven't seen uray in a while so it is quite likely that the project is out of date

Sry, Wallet Version 1.1.5 ... fixed it.
hero member
Activity: 527
Merit: 500
What about https://wallet.burstcoin.io ?
Is it legit ?
Can it be trusted , is it safe to use ?

If I recall correctly, that is uray's online wallet project and is ok.

Wait for more confirmations though, just to be on the safe side that I am not misremembering

Wallet Version 1.5.0 ... i wouldn't use that atm, even IF password is safe.

Damn, uray is in the future Cheesy

On a more serious note, I haven't used it and haven't seen uray in a while so it is quite likely that the project is out of date
sr. member
Activity: 257
Merit: 255
What about https://wallet.burstcoin.io ?
Is it legit ?
Can it be trusted , is it safe to use ?

If I recall correctly, that is uray's online wallet project and is ok.

Wait for more confirmations though, just to be on the safe side that I am not misremembering

Wallet Version 1.1.5 ... i wouldn't use that atm, even IF password is safe.
legendary
Activity: 2282
Merit: 1072
https://crowetic.com | https://qortal.org
a few things

-download page on official website doesnt work and has broken images
-twitter page has no logo or link to main website
-readme.txt contains no instructions beyond telling people how to sync clocks so I can't figure out how to get the wallet running; if I try and run the bat file I get an error saying I need Java despite already having it installed.

as far as the last part goes, you will likely have to change the location that the bat is looking for java, java 8 was released, and the bat was not updated for it...

I.E.

old code in bat...

Code:
@ECHO OFF
IF EXIST java (
start "BURST" java -cp burst.jar;lib\*;conf nxt.Nxt
) ELSE (
IF EXIST "%PROGRAMFILES%\Java\jre7" (
start "BURST" "%PROGRAMFILES%\Java\jre7\bin\java.exe" -cp burst.jar;lib\*;conf nxt.Nxt
) ELSE (
IF EXIST "%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\Java\jre7" (
start "BURST" "%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\Java\jre7\bin\java.exe" -cp burst.jar;lib\*;conf nxt.Nxt
) ELSE (
ECHO Java software not found on your system. Please go to http://java.com/en/ to download a copy of Java.
PAUSE
)
)
)


new code changes necessary...

Code:
@ECHO OFF
IF EXIST java (
start "BURST" java -cp burst.jar;lib\*;conf nxt.Nxt
) ELSE (
IF EXIST "%PROGRAMFILES%\Java\jre1.8.0_31\bin\java.exe" (
start "BURST" "%PROGRAMFILES%\Java\jre1.8.0_31\bin\java.exe" -cp burst.jar;lib\*;conf nxt.Nxt
) ELSE (
IF EXIST "%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\Java\jre7" (
start "BURST" "%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%\Java\jre7\bin\java.exe" -cp burst.jar;lib\*;conf nxt.Nxt
) ELSE (
ECHO Java software not found on your system. Please go to http://java.com/en/ to download a copy of Java.
PAUSE
)
)
)

legendary
Activity: 2282
Merit: 1072
https://crowetic.com | https://qortal.org
Due to scams of several BTC, Wulfcastle is no longer in anyway associated with BURST's community PR Team.

Do not do business with him.


you need to add this to the trust system to protect others



Personally I wasn't scammed, I'm only very angry, but I really hope those who were victims use the trust system, just as you say.

Oh, we will.
sr. member
Activity: 462
Merit: 250
a few things

-download page on official website doesnt work and has broken images
-twitter page has no logo or link to main website
-readme.txt contains no instructions beyond telling people how to sync clocks so I can't figure out how to get the wallet running; if I try and run the bat file I get an error saying I need Java despite already having it installed.

The site is being redeveloped due to issues described a few pages back.
https://twitter.com/real_BURSTCOIN does infact have a logo

Java is a bit trickier, out of the box you need java7. Burst is reported to work with java8 but you'd need to edit files yourself to change the references from java7 to java8. Also, mac people for example have had to get jdk in some cases, not only jre.

Crowetic's guide has it laid out well https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ytq47AmQZ1rzjoFuMW33c82JkuJ1L61Pdp95ZLbi3-k/edit?usp=sharing

I really like this coin but when will the mining deflation slow down?

What exactly do you mean? Block reward decreases 5% a month



It does work. We had to develop a whole new site due to the scams, so right now the site is far from perfect - but people are working hard to recreate it as I write this. Please understand that we are doing the best we can and work hard.

These scams that the PR Team was victims of highlight another thing: We in the Team not only invest time but also considerable of our own money. We'll therefore set up donation accounts to hopefully support some of our expenses. Work will we always do for free, but without some help with funding development simply goes slower - and that shows in the price. With donations we could to larger extent then now hire external people to do certain things.

We're still figuring out how to set up the donation addresses securely, but we'll post about it shortly, hoping for some support of BURST's future.
hero member
Activity: 527
Merit: 500
What about https://wallet.burstcoin.io ?
Is it legit ?
Can it be trusted , is it safe to use ?

If I recall correctly, that is uray's online wallet project and is ok.

Wait for more confirmations though, just to be on the safe side that I am not misremembering
sr. member
Activity: 269
Merit: 252
What about https://wallet.burstcoin.io ?
Is it legit ?
Can it be trusted , is it safe to use ?
sr. member
Activity: 462
Merit: 250
Due to scams of several BTC, Wulfcastle is no longer in anyway associated with BURST's community PR Team.

Do not do business with him.


you need to add this to the trust system to protect others



Personally I wasn't scammed, I'm only very angry, but I really hope those who were victims use the trust system, just as you say.
legendary
Activity: 1582
Merit: 1019
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Due to scams of several BTC, Wulfcastle is no longer in anyway associated with BURST's community PR Team.

Do not do business with him.


you need to add this to the trust system to protect others

hero member
Activity: 527
Merit: 500
a few things

-download page on official website doesnt work and has broken images
-twitter page has no logo or link to main website
-readme.txt contains no instructions beyond telling people how to sync clocks so I can't figure out how to get the wallet running; if I try and run the bat file I get an error saying I need Java despite already having it installed.

The site is being redeveloped due to issues described a few pages back.
https://twitter.com/real_BURSTCOIN does infact have a logo

Java is a bit trickier, out of the box you need java7. Burst is reported to work with java8 but you'd need to edit files yourself to change the references from java7 to java8. Also, mac people for example have had to get jdk in some cases, not only jre.

Crowetic's guide has it laid out well https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ytq47AmQZ1rzjoFuMW33c82JkuJ1L61Pdp95ZLbi3-k/edit?usp=sharing

I really like this coin but when will the mining deflation slow down?

What exactly do you mean? Block reward decreases 5% a month
sr. member
Activity: 466
Merit: 250
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I really like this coin but when will the mining deflation slow down?
hero member
Activity: 522
Merit: 500
a few things

-download page on official website doesnt work and has broken images
-twitter page has no logo or link to main website
-readme.txt contains no instructions beyond telling people how to sync clocks so I can't figure out how to get the wallet running; if I try and run the bat file I get an error saying I need Java despite already having it installed.
legendary
Activity: 2282
Merit: 1072
https://crowetic.com | https://qortal.org
Hmmm, thanks for the help. I'll throw more memory at it and see what happens later today. The SSD isn't sitting at 100% utilization though or anywhere close to it. It seems like it's all a CPU bottleneck.


Memory upgrade and CPU overclocking is what I would try first. Also, make sure your page file is set to AUTO for the drives. I noticed that when I manually set the pagefile, nasty things happened.
sr. member
Activity: 423
Merit: 250
Hmmm, thanks for the help. I'll throw more memory at it and see what happens later today. The SSD isn't sitting at 100% utilization though or anywhere close to it. It seems like it's all a CPU bottleneck.
full member
Activity: 129
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The performance monitor is different than the resource monitor, it just allows for more tweaking of the information presented.  Either way, it doesn't matter.

It looks like your page file on your C drive is being nailed during the plot reading, I wonder if this is whats causing the problem.  Windows is trying to cache all of the plot files so it has to read it, write it to the page file, and then process it..... Burst and Linux defiantly play nicer, none of this caching.

Blago made a post a few pages back about how Windows will perform much better with plot files in the range of 200-300GB and this caching issue I believe was the reason

I blame the Windows caching issue with large file sizes,  switch to multiple plot files within each drive and then optimize those files, I bet your problems go away.

Other than that I am all out of ideas.

Good-Luck
sr. member
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I may be wrong, but those performance graphs are only showing you Que length aka how many read operations are being stacked up waiting to be processed.  The top graph is showing you the read performance for a drive and its only showing about 20MB/s. 
(http://superuser.com/questions/331973/in-the-resource-monitor-of-windows-7-what-does-the-disk-queue-length-really-m)

Trying going to the actual performance monitor and add counters for physical disks to the chart.  This should give you a better idea of what is happening with your drives. ( START MENU --> SEARCH MENU -->
It's still odd that your only reading 20MB/s what happens if you only use one of the 5TB plots, will your read rate increase?

Good-luck

That's the windows 8 resource monitor. Looking on the side, the drives are operating at 7MB/s a piece. The blue line on the graphs shows overall 'utilization' though, if it's maxed out it's saturated with seeks or it's at maximum sequential operation.

Top graph is all the drives averaged across the board. As per the last post, the miner is using 33MB/s maximum across all four drives.



Using one drive it reads at about 18MB/s.
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