Anyone mining Burst?

[porina]

Following the recent video (on floatplane) about Burstcoin, thought I'd give it a go. Dusted off 4TB of old HDs, and trying to set up now using guide at https://www.burst-coin.org/how-to-tutorials

 

Maybe software has changed, but it doesn't seem to exactly follow what is out there, and I'm having trouble setting up a pool. Do I need to be fully synced to the blockchain before that works?

 

Next step after that, plotting. How slow can it be?

[Anghammarad]

With nearly all mining you first need the synced blockchain in the client before it starts mining locally. 

 

 

[porina]

24 minutes ago, Anghammarad said:

With nearly all mining you first need the synced blockchain in the client before it starts mining locally. 

Thing is I'm not mining locally. I want to connect to a pool, which I'm failing to do so at the moment. In my limited experience of others, I should be able to accept payments regardless if the wallet is synced or not.

 

I've downloaded and importing the blockchain now, which is hopefully faster than a regular sync, and will try again after. Until then, I still have to work out plotting...

[AugOwnz]

You have to setup the reward assignment aswell, normally pools link this in their pages. Then you need to wait for 4 blocks to be sure that it processed. You have to have burst already on the account (at least 1) because all operations on the burst network have a minimum fee of 1 burst.

[porina]

30 minutes ago, AugOwnz said:

You have to setup the reward assignment aswell, normally pools link this in their pages. Then you need to wait for 4 blocks to be sure that it processed. You have to have burst already on the account (at least 1) because all operations on the burst network have a minimum fee of 1 burst.

How do you get burst if you're just starting? Nowhere I've seen so far mentions that bit.

 

I was failing on the reward assignment part, still waiting for the chain import to process before I retry.

 

Edit: it looks like on other mining sites some generous people seed others looking to start with a few coins.

[AugOwnz]

There are burstcoin faucets that give you 1 burst just to get started, that's how I set my whole thing up initially.

[porina]

9 minutes ago, AugOwnz said:

There are burstcoin faucets that give you 1 burst just to get started, that's how I set my whole thing up initially.

Just requested my 1st so will hopefully be on way soon.

[AugOwnz]

It's normally pretty instantaneous, but you have to wait for the blockchain to update on your client to see it.

[porina]

4 minutes ago, AugOwnz said:

It's normally pretty instantaneous, but you have to wait for the blockchain to update on your client to see it.

Yup, blockchain import still going. About 2/3 through now.

[porina]

Blockchain import has completed, but it only took me to December-ish. So now I'm downloading the rest the slow way. This might be slow. At one block per second, that's around 9 hours.

 

The import was still worth it. I estimate it took less than 10% the time of downloading.

[2FA]

Burst doesn't have enough ROI to make it viable for smaller arrays.

[porina]

9 minutes ago, 2FA said:

Burst doesn't have enough ROI to make it viable for smaller arrays.

Doesn't matter, it is more a matter of accumulate in the vague hopes it is worth something in future. And a learning exercise. I've dug out 8TB of HDs so far to start testing with.

[porina]

This might take a while... overnight the blockchain has completed its sync, and I've been able to assign to a pool. I started on the plotfiles... well, plotfile. I have a 2TB HD in for testing at the moment. It looks like it'll take 2.5 days to do that! The other 3 HDs I was going to put in... I think I'll have to learn to do the plotting on other systems in parallel to speed up the process.

 

Note the system I intend to run this on has a relatively weak CPU, a dual core Ivy Bridge Celeron at 2.3 GHz. If I get it going on a more modern quad core, it should take under a day per disk.

[bcredeur97]

14 hours ago, 2FA said:

Burst doesn't have enough ROI to make it viable for smaller arrays.

what about larger arrays? Is there some sort of calculator for Burst?

 

Like.. if I went drop $4k on hard drives... can I make money?

[2FA]

4 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

what about larger arrays? Is there some sort of calculator for Burst?

 

Like.. if I went drop $4k on hard drives... can I make money?

It takes 100TB of storage to make a little bit above $2 per day.

[bcredeur97]

11 minutes ago, 2FA said:

It takes 100TB of storage to make a little bit above $2 per day.

so $2000 (a little more if you want good drives) to make $2 a day.

that's a 1000 day ROI, or about 2.73 years or nearly 33 months... I'm good.

[AugOwnz]

12 hours ago, porina said:

This might take a while... overnight the blockchain has completed its sync, and I've been able to assign to a pool. I started on the plotfiles... well, plotfile. I have a 2TB HD in for testing at the moment. It looks like it'll take 2.5 days to do that! The other 3 HDs I was going to put in... I think I'll have to learn to do the plotting on other systems in parallel to speed up the process.

 

Note the system I intend to run this on has a relatively weak CPU, a dual core Ivy Bridge Celeron at 2.3 GHz. If I get it going on a more modern quad core, it should take under a day per disk.

Are you cpu plotting? Gpu plotting will cut that time to 1/3rd to 1/4th. As a tip: don't use generate direct, use generate buffer if you go to the gpu plotting way.

[porina]

30 minutes ago, AugOwnz said:

Are you cpu plotting? Gpu plotting will cut that time to 1/3rd to 1/4th. As a tip: don't use generate direct, use generate buffer if you go to the gpu plotting way.

I am CPU plotting, but I just switched to a faster system. Currently running at 31 threads 28GB ram  The 3TB disk should complete overnight, and I'll start off a 2TB disk before going to work, and that's over half way there. It'll be too much pain for me to switch over to a GPU system.

 

If you have any idea of rates for comparison, I'm getting over 27000 nonces/minute.

[AugOwnz]

I don't remember what I was getting at when I plotted (a long time ago) but it took me 12 hours to plot a 3tb drive with a spare gtx 970.

[porina]

The fun never stopped... I finally finished plotting the 8TB of HDs a bit earlier, moved them from the plotting system to what was intended to be the mining system, and... no boot. In short, the server had no way for me to tell it to boot off the SSD on what was the ODD connector. It boots of it fine if there are no other HDs connected. Fine, I dug out my older microserver, and after moving them to the different drive brackets, that is now away mining! I think... compared to CPU/GPU mining it is rather uneventful. Occasionally the text changes like it is reading something, and quiet again.

 

On the newer microserver, I think I can still get it working, if I don't use Windows. I know the system can boot from other devices, like USB, so I could use that with Linux. That's something to look at another day.

[AugOwnz]

Well that's how burst mining works, once a new block is found your pc will search for the solving nonce or the closest to it and then sit idle until someone found the right deadline.

[bcredeur97]

is this more profitable than just providing storage on something like Siacoin/Storj ?

[porina]

5 minutes ago, bcredeur97 said:

is this more profitable than just providing storage on something like Siacoin/Storj ?

Good question. I've not looked at those at all. Isn't Siacoin one of the ones you can dual-mine alongside Ethereum using claymore?

[bcredeur97]

9 minutes ago, porina said:

Good question. I've not looked at those at all. Isn't Siacoin one of the ones you can dual-mine alongside Ethereum using claymore?

yeah but you can also just provide storage for the Siacoin network and get paid.

 

that's the whole idea. it's a cloud storage thing.

[ElusiveX]

i am, i orders 20 10TB drives, storinators soon! right now mining with 150TB of external drives