About BURST Mining

Hey there STEEMers, I have decided to post a tutorial on how you can mine BURST Coin, a proof-of-capacity algorithm which is environmentally friendly. What Is BURST? This coin is designed to use very little CPU or GPU power, which is what makes it so environmentally friendly. It is not possible to require enough work to be done during a 4 minute time frame that even the most cost efficient ASIC cannot mine efficiently enough to make it cheaper to use than a hard drive. ASICs calculation speeds are rising, but so do HDD sizes. What Is Needed For Me To Start Mining? • Some spare Hard Drive space (Can be as little as 100GB - 1TB or upwards is recommended.) • A Computer which has the BURST AIO Wallet (I will go through this later if you do not know how to set it up.) Instructions: 1) Download the BURST AIO Wallet.

Hey Burstians, Howdy. I have just started mining for Burst. I am mining from CPU. Since this is different from other mining platforms like share acceptance etc. While 2017 saw a revival of initial public offerings in Canadian mining and metals, investment bankers aren't optimistic that IPO activity will be as brisk in 2018.

This will contain the Wallet, Plotter and Miner along with other amazing features! The link for download is here: 2) Run and install the application. Run the Wallet. 3) Click 'I am a new user' if you do not have a wallet setup. 4) The next decision is yours. You can choose between a Local or Online Wallet.

• Online - The wallet is stored on a separate, decentralized server. No details are on your system. No blockchain is needed to be downloaded. • Local - The wallet details are stored on your system and the blockchain is needed to be downloaded. If you lose details to your wallet, you cannot get it back. 5) Begin the Wallet creation procedure. The Wallet will gave you a 12 word passphrase.

Write this down and keep it somewhere safe. If you plan to store it on your computer, you can encrypt it to a USB. It may also be advisable to print off physical copies of your passphrase, so that if something does happen to it on your computer, you are covered by the other copies; also be sure to keep these in a secure area where no-one would know.

6) After the creation is successful, you will be greeted with the home page. In the top left, you will be able to see your wallet address. 7) As your Wallet is new, you will have to assign a name, which is changeable when you feel like it. However, it will cost you a fee of 1 BURST to keep the network running. In order for you to get your first BURST Coins, use a faucet. A faucet will pay you between 1-5 BURST, which is just enough to get you going.

To access a faucet, you will require your BURST Address which should look like 'BURST-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXX' 8) You will be taken to a web-page once you choose the faucet you want. For example, I will use the burstcoin.info faucet. 9) Once you enter your address, press 'Claim Burst'. The BURST should be added to your wallet after 4 Confirmations. 10) You have the basic Wallet setup! I will now take you through how to prepare you hard drives for mining. How Do I Plot My Hard Drives?

In order for you to start mining BURST, you need to do something called plotting. This action is writing nonces to your hard drive. A nonce is an arbitrary number that may only be used once.

You will plot these to your drive and then the miner will use them to form deadlines. 1) At the bottom of the Wallet, click on Write Plots. 2) Go ahead and choose the drive that you want to plot. Most Dogecoin DOGE Mined In A Day. Also choose the amount you want to plot and the amount of cores that you want to dedicate to it.

Dont forget to add your wallet address at the bottom. The plots will be written using your alpha numeric ID. Once configured, press Start. A Command Line window should open up looking like this. 3) Once your drives are plotted, we can move on to the next step.

How Do I Mine BURST? To mine BURST, it is very simple. All you need to do is point your miner to the correct pool and reward assignment.

1) Click on 'Start Mining' at the bottom right. 2) Select a pool that you wish to mine on. 3) Find the pool address of that pool. It can be found by going to your web-browser and typing in the address of the pool you want.

We will use this for the Reward Assignment. How To Mine For Decred DCR. You will also need your BURST Passphrase which you have stored earlier.

4) On the Wallet, choose click on 'Change Reward Assignment'. It will take you to a local hosted page. Fill in the details as needed. The recipient is the pool address you found earlier. 5) Click submit and you will now have to wait 4 Blocks (16 Minutes) to mine. 6) After the wait is over, you can choose to start mining by following the way I mentioned earlier.

The AIO Wallet will automatically detect the available plots on your Computer. Press 'Start Mining' and you're good to go! I hope you enjoyed this little tutorial. If you did, please give it a vote and please consider following me on STEEMIT if you want more like this!

You can find me on the BURST Forums: Feel free to PM me if you have any questions. Thanks for reading! I plotted with success and many hours of waiting 2 hd, now i have tried many times to start mining but it is working only if i do not choose the pool, i put some coin in the wallet and i pointed the miner to the pool address, i see the terminal opening but is just shows the details of the notebook and stops at the ram, i chose AVX because with openCL it says 'use your second device to mine?' And if i click yes it opens for a millisecond the terminal window and then disappears, anybody knows what should i do?

Hello everyone! Im new to Burst community & also to PoC mining used to be a PoW & PoS, Iv waiting later this week some 15TB for a hp dl180g6 and if that goes well more capacity to come atm im testing the waters, iv read the mining guide but my miner don't seem the same (notice im using Blago v1.160705) And what is this msg 'HDD wake up! I know the 10GB is nothin but is going to get fixed but this is the reason i dont have any deadlines?? Now about multi plot files iv read 1TB plot file is recommended right?

So 15x1TB each, correct?? I was thinking if this goes well to go to 100TB but in that case ill have to do the same?? Thanks Greek.

Hello everyone! Im new to Burst community & also to PoC mining used to be a PoW & PoS, Iv waiting later this week some 15TB for a hp dl180g6 and if that goes well more capacity to come atm im testing the waters, iv read the mining guide but my miner don't seem the same (notice im using Blago v1.160705) And what is this msg 'HDD wake up! I know the 10GB is nothin but is going to get fixed but this is the reason i dont have any deadlines?? Now about multi plot files iv read 1TB plot file is recommended right? So 15x1TB each, correct?? I was thinking if this goes well to go to 100TB but in that case ill have to do the same??

Thanks Greek Display More i am not familiar with that exact miner, but in general miners are set up to ignore deadlines if they are way too high to matter anyway, and with only 10Gb, you will most of the time get real long deadlines (just as you'r best hash will be pretty large if your GPU is not very fast). So no deadline might just mean that the miner found no deadlime worth sending to the network. I'm guessing here, but it could be the case. All you can do is keep a look out if you get a different output at some time. The computer i'm writing from here is mining 20ish terabytes and it often gets deadlines around 100000, that right now translates to more than a day, and you need to get below 4 minutes if you want like 50/50 of getting the block. Plot files, i'm not sure if there is a best way, but i have made most of my files 256GB that makes it still almost practical to move them around. I use some of the drives for other stuff, so when i need room somewhere, i move a plotfile somewhere else, and i can therefore adjust my free space in 256GB increments.

The mining process is practically the same no matter if your files are 100 or 256 or 1000GB each. I just find the very large files impractical to throw around, and i like the smaller granularity from smaller files. Don't know what the HDD wake up is all about, but harddisks go idle after a while so perhaps your miner sends commands to the drive once in a while to prevent it from going idle, perhaps to make it faster at responding to a new block. The computer i'm writing from here is mining 20ish terabytes and it often gets deadlines around 100000, that right now translates to more than a day, and you need to get below 4 minutes if you want like 50/50 of getting the block. Plot files, i'm not sure if there is a best way, but i have made most of my files 256GB that makes it still almost practical to move them around. I use some of the drives for other stuff, so when i need room somewhere, i move a plotfile somewhere else, and i can therefore adjust my free space in 256GB increments. The mining process is practically the same no matter if your files are 100 or 256 or 1000GB each.

I just find the very large files impractical to throw around, and i like the smaller granularity from smaller files. Ill search the forums to see how much faster a pair of RX 480 can handle it, damn we have the storage its would be lame to lose share due speed, Now about connectivity ill try the dual gigabit if its gonna make it or else optic is the answer. If i may ask how many burst you make per day with the 20TB? Yeah you are right about 256 plot size. Ill search the forums to see how much faster a pair of RX 480 can handle it, damn we have the storage its would be lame to lose share due speed, Now about connectivity ill try the dual gigabit if its gonna make it or else optic is the answer.

If i may ask how many burst you make per day with the 20TB? Yeah you are right about 256 plot size Display More In fact when i mine, i do use my gpu to assist the miner. I use the gpu assisted jminer, with the gpu, it seems like the files are processed faster than with cpu. It was very easy to set up.

But when i plot, i just use my cpu's (8-core amd FX cpus) i didn't care fiddling with gpus back then, i used a windows program called wplotgenerator.exe, it was also very easy to use. Tools might've gotten better by now, it's a while since last time i added drives (not really any physical space left, and i get plenty of bust as it is now). Nope im not going to use Crossfire, never worked for gpu mining, ill go with riser connection, sweet ill give a try to combine cpu & gpu's the question is how stable is going to be the system is most stressed when plotting. Once you're finished plotting, you are only mining, and when mining the rig is idle most of the time, with 20TB it takes my pcs about 30sec to 1min.

To find the best deadline, and then it just waits and do nothing until the time is up, which average about 4 minutes. Your GPU will be very bored most of the time. You don't need a mtfkr gpu, on this box i have a radeon hd 6670 and it seems like it works just fine, finding deadlines well in time and making lots of burst for me. The other two boxes have similar sorta oldish gpus and it all works fine for me. It is totally cool that you can actually just throw whatever you have lying around into an old cabinet and then get a decent burstcoin mining rig.