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Irontiga

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Quote from: vipervince2002 on November 17, 2014, 11:40:44 PM

Quote from: mczarnek on November 17, 2014, 11:13:54 PM

I'm working on the website with Pottu(maybe?) while Irontiga is busy. Anyone want to help us write up some of content? Or help with the site? I want to make sure we have something professional looking. I've got a sketch of what I think it'll look like but would be nice to have help making it happen.

The website is one of the first things people see when checking out the coin, so seems particularly important to me.

Particularly wanted:

I'm looking for a paragraph on why Burst is ASIC resistant (I can write up something close enough)

Also a good description of how Proof of Capacity works on the checking side of things, as opposed to the plotting side. Basically a description of the algorithm.

What about this?

X11 uses 11 rounds,
   X13 uses 13 rounds,
   X15 uses 15 rounds,
   X17 uses 17 rounds,
   BURST uses 4098 rounds!

372 times darker than Darkcoin and 20x more energy efficient (assuming a 200W GPU and a 10W hard drive).

ASIC Resistant:
A BURST ASIC would require 4098 more cores/threads than today's Scrypt ASICs and draw MUCH more power.

Can someone confirm if some or all of these facts as true?

4098 / 11 = 372

Needs work, but i really like that

The conclusions are incorrect

vipervince2002

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Quote from: mczarnek on November 17, 2014, 11:13:54 PM

I'm working on the website with Pottu(maybe?) while Irontiga is busy. Anyone want to help us write up some of content? Or help with the site? I want to make sure we have something professional looking. I've got a sketch of what I think it'll look like but would be nice to have help making it happen.

The website is one of the first things people see when checking out the coin, so seems particularly important to me.

Particularly wanted:

I'm looking for a paragraph on why Burst is ASIC resistant (I can write up something close enough)

Also a good description of how Proof of Capacity works on the checking side of things, as opposed to the plotting side. Basically a description of the algorithm.

What about this?

X11 uses 11 rounds,
   X13 uses 13 rounds,
   X15 uses 15 rounds,
   X17 uses 17 rounds,
   BURST uses 4098 rounds!

372 times darker than Darkcoin and 20x more energy efficient (assuming a 200W GPU and a 10W hard drive).

ASIC Resistant:
A BURST ASIC would require 4098 more cores/threads than today's Scrypt ASICs and draw MUCH more power.

Can someone confirm if some or all of these facts as true?

4098 / 11 = 372

mczarnek

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Activity: 527

Merit: 503

I'm working on the website with Pottu(maybe?) while Irontiga is busy. Anyone want to help us write up some of content? Or help with the site? I want to make sure we have something professional looking. I've got a sketch of what I think it'll look like but would be nice to have help making it happen.

The website is one of the first things people see when checking out the coin, so seems particularly important to me.

Particularly wanted:

I'm looking for a paragraph on why Burst is ASIC resistant (I can write up something close enough)

Also a good description of how Proof of Capacity works on the checking side of things, as opposed to the plotting side. Basically a description of the algorithm.

Irontiga

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Quote from: crowetic on November 17, 2014, 11:18:34 AM

Quote from: hashes4.me on November 16, 2014, 11:05:04 AM

Played a bit around, if someone wants to know what aliases are taken -> http://pastebin.info/?paste=106
And the Top 250 Burst Holders

-> http://pastebin.info/?paste=107

crowetic - BURST-KHTJ-G3H7-LD2Q-H7LJ6
crowetic - BURST-KHTJ-G3H7-LD2Q-H7LJ6

this is incorrect, my address is in my sig, and that's registered with my name. I don't know what the other address above is, or why there are two of them listed. Can you explain that? Thanks!

That's my addy Wink

pist0la

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Quote from: fforforest on November 17, 2014, 07:35:42 PM

wplotgenerator.exe crashes immediately upon startup and I can't figure it out,

Windows 7/ i5 2500k

wplotgenerator 1xxxx 0 800000 1932 4

Thanks in advance.

Are you double clicking the .bat or the .exe to run the generator?

fforforest

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wplotgenerator.exe crashes immediately upon startup and I can't figure it out,

Windows 7/ i5 2500k

wplotgenerator 1xxxx 0 800000 1932 4

Thanks in advance.

m3ta

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Quote from: crazyearner on November 17, 2014, 05:23:19 PM

10TB should be enough

In your dreams...

crazyearner

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Quote from: hoze on November 17, 2014, 05:07:15 PM

Hi to all

I need help. I want to try solo mining and the question is how can I mine from another PC to that PC where is my wallet Huh

My wallet is runing on address 192.168.100.102 and how to access to that from another PC, also is 10TB enough for solo mining?

set your conf file to something like this..

{
"Mode" : "solo",

"Server" : "192.168.0.7", ip of 2nd machine
"Port": 8126,

"UpdaterAddr" : "192.168.0.1", ip of 1st machine
"UpdaterPort": 8124,

"EnableProxy": false,
"ProxyPort": 8126,

"Paths":["C:\\plots"],
"CacheSize" : 200000,

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

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

"UseFastRcv" : true,
"SendInterval": 100,
"UpdateInterval": 2000
}

unsure of how to do conf file for solo mining proper as I dont and 10TB should be enough to

hoze

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Hi to all

I need help. I want to try solo mining and the question is how can I mine from another PC to that PC where is my wallet Huh

My wallet is runing on address 192.168.100.102 and how to access to that from another PC, also is 10TB enough for solo mining?

crowetic

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https://crowetic.com | https://qortal.org

Going to take the pool server down for a restart.

Current settings on the balancer server are not optimal, so there could be as much as 60 seconds of downtime.

Thanks!

edit: back up, shouldn't have noticed much downtime at all, I was able to get the main pool server back up before the balancer even switched to the backup. lol.

FakeAccount

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I'm not real

stats on https://bchain.info/BURST/tools/overlap seem to be lagging? it doesn't have latest info with respect to newest blocks found.

crowetic

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https://crowetic.com | https://qortal.org

Quote from: duncan_idaho on November 17, 2014, 08:33:37 AM

uray what is wrong again with EU pool? Down until one hour. For me is enough your pool downtime is to much. I lost to much coins.

come join the only failover BURST pool @ http://burst.ga and I'm still doing my giveaway, if you prove you have more than 10TB mining, I will give you a bonus of 8k burst paid in two payments, one now one in a week of you being on the pool. If you have less than 10TB I will give you 1500 for joining. PM me with your burst ID and once I see you in the stats you're good!

crowetic

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https://crowetic.com | https://qortal.org

Quote from: hashes4.me on November 16, 2014, 11:05:04 AM

Played a bit around, if someone wants to know what aliases are taken -> http://pastebin.info/?paste=106
And the Top 250 Burst Holders

-> http://pastebin.info/?paste=107

crowetic - BURST-KHTJ-G3H7-LD2Q-H7LJ6
crowetic - BURST-KHTJ-G3H7-LD2Q-H7LJ6

this is incorrect, my address is in my sig, and that's registered with my name. I don't know what the other address above is, or why there are two of them listed. Can you explain that? Thanks!

crowetic

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https://crowetic.com | https://qortal.org

we are messing around with our balancer server right now, there may be a few random periods that people won't be able to connect to the pool. Nothing to worry about we're just changing some things. Thanks!

edit: This may happen a couple times within the next day or so. We're writing a new balancer script to function exactly how we need it to for our pools. But it should never be longer than a couple min downtime. Thank you for your patience in helping us to make the pool best around!

Nevril

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Investment Status
Share value: 0.01 BTC - Sold Shares: 303 - Next goal: 475 ~~250~~
Booked Shares (waiting for payment): 60
Hashrate supporting Burst: 174 MH/s (LTC)

Update v1.1.2
Burst Long Term Price Support project
(BLTPS)

Changelog
v1.1.2 - 17/nov/2014
Phase 2 End ETA postponed to 07/dic/2014 (1 week)

Quick note
Apologies about the postponing of the Phase 3, I forgot the 5th anniversary with my girlfriend Tongue

I'll be on vacation for 5 days with almost-0 internet connectivity. I'll be able to reply to PMs but unable to check Bitcoin wallet and/or transfer BLTPS shares.

Said so... we are approaching the next goal of 475 sold shares. It would be really nice if we manage to collect enough funds to buy our second (and third?) package of qASICs before the end of Phase 2. The first one is already up and kicking!
If you don't know what BLTPS is, or want proofs-of-reliability of this project, go check out the official thread on BurstForum.
We need the support of everyone believing in Burst, shares cost just 0.01 BTC each 'till the end of Phase 2. Make sure you grab some and help Burst grow!

rollingMyCar

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hi guys....

any reward statistic update between urays pool SG/EU/US and dev pool V1 and V2???

thanks....

duncan_idaho

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uray what is wrong again with EU pool? Down until one hour. For me is enough your pool downtime is to much. I lost to much coins.

bipben

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Quote from: mmmaybe on November 17, 2014, 02:54:32 AM

Quote from: majere on November 16, 2014, 09:18:06 PM

Quote from: vipervince2002 on November 16, 2014, 01:57:29 AM

On a side note, cryo's newest GPU plotter creates optimized plots if using the direct writing option. Don't freak out if the progress stays at 0% for a while because it will start updating the progress once the plot file size reaches the output size. Cryo will probably fix this in a future update once he bases the initial progress meter on the size of the file before basing the meter on the number of scoops plotted *hint hint to cryo.

I browsed the source code, but did not find where the file is preallocated. Wouldn't it introduce a huge fragmentation? Could anyone compare with a file plotted sequentially?
For ext4 filesystem:

e4defrag -c filename
shows real & ideal fragmentation values,

xfs_io -f -c "fiemap -v" filename
shows where exactly blocks are located.

Btw, from my experiments with dcct's plotter, calling fallocate or posix_allocate before writing to file sequentially produces worse results than simply writing to file given that the disk was initially empty...
Moving the file to another disk and back fixes the fragmentation.

ps. I'm using Ubuntu 14 LTS.

For those who don't know, new versions of the GPU plotter are announced in this thread: https://burstforum.com/index.php?threads/gpu-plot-generator.45/ Updates are pretty frequent so check it out if you haven't

Hi everyone,

Sorry for not anouncing the new releases of the new GPU plot generator versions here, but I belived that no more technical posts were allowed here. Anyway, I will notify you from time to time.

@majere Yes you're right, there is no pre-allocation of the output files for now. For the staggered files it doesn't make so much sense (especially with higher ones), also it prevents resuming.
As for the direct writing strategy, it's still a beta feature and need some more tests. I'll check the file fragmentation to make sure it's ok.

Please don't use the direct writing strategy for production purpose for now as there may be an unsolved issue (see mmmaybe's posts at burstforum.com).

Regards.

bloodDiamond

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Quote from: Craige288 on November 13, 2014, 08:26:58 AM

Quote from: xizmax on November 13, 2014, 07:47:35 AM

Quote from: Craige288 on November 13, 2014, 07:16:58 AM

\Cut for length

OMG you are right! It was set for USA PST and I'm in Australia and the time was 1 hour out. After setting the time and zone correctly it all works but unfortunately I find that someone has stolen my coin from the wallet!!
I really don't know why the wallet doesn't have better security like Google Authenticator or something. I'm not the only one I've heard about having coins stolen. I'm gonna start a new wallet with 256+ character passphrase now cos it's my best bet to ensure it's secure. Great coin but it needs better security! If you actually look at the account that took my coins there are many payments to it that I can guarantee are all stolen coins so it's pretty wide spread.

Thanks for your help though. Much appreciated and I'm excited about the potential.

Sorry to hear about the hack mate, this is a brainwallet so a good passphrase is of the essence.

What I would suggest, at least as an interim measure, is to add various other lesser known languages to the random passphrase generator.

It won't fix all the issues, but would provide a bit better protection against dictionary attacks.

I've just hammered the keyboard with random shift key presses and generated a very long string of characters that can't possibly be related to any language

That should do it LOL

for stronger security use an online guid generator...
i use this for my passPhrase

http://www.guidgen.com/

mmmaybe

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Quote from: majere on November 16, 2014, 09:18:06 PM

Quote from: vipervince2002 on November 16, 2014, 01:57:29 AM

On a side note, cryo's newest GPU plotter creates optimized plots if using the direct writing option. Don't freak out if the progress stays at 0% for a while because it will start updating the progress once the plot file size reaches the output size. Cryo will probably fix this in a future update once he bases the initial progress meter on the size of the file before basing the meter on the number of scoops plotted *hint hint to cryo.

I browsed the source code, but did not find where the file is preallocated. Wouldn't it introduce a huge fragmentation? Could anyone compare with a file plotted sequentially?
For ext4 filesystem:

e4defrag -c filename
shows real & ideal fragmentation values,

xfs_io -f -c "fiemap -v" filename
shows where exactly blocks are located.

Btw, from my experiments with dcct's plotter, calling fallocate or posix_allocate before writing to file sequentially produces worse results than simply writing to file given that the disk was initially empty...
Moving the file to another disk and back fixes the fragmentation.

ps. I'm using Ubuntu 14 LTS.

For those who don't know, new versions of the GPU plotter are announced in this thread: https://burstforum.com/index.php?threads/gpu-plot-generator.45/ Updates are pretty frequent so check it out if you haven't

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