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@scprv55

Hi,

i think you have to make it more easy for you.

/plot -k 10747524060435184832 -x 2 -d /media/sean/5623-92A3/plots -s 0 -n 2048000 -m 4096 -t 3
./plot -k 10747524060435184832 -x 2 -d /media/sean/2TB/plots -s 0 -n 2048000 -m 4096 -t 3

I'm only using the dcct plotter for creating plots. Therefore you can use trial and error with the dcct-gui plotter. Then you have an grafic user interface for those people like us who want to make it easy. With the gui you can easily set the startnonc the RAM used the file size and how much threads should be used.

But the most important thing is that you don't use the same startnonces because of nonces overlapping. so it looks on the top like you are using the same nonces. I can't understand the command line commands i never used them. Im still using the gui. But i can tell you the basic things so you can translate this in a cli command (or you are using the dcct-gui).

For the nonces you can read the how to for setting up the wallet. It is a good explanation you can see in the donwload wallet section on burstcoin homepage where you can download the wallet.

Here is a sample for you how to configure the right plot startnonce in Linux (i thinks this is working):

Plot 1 Startnonce 0 filesize in bytes 3.758.096.384.000 plot nonces 14.336.000 endnonce14.336.000
Plot 2 Startnonce 14.336.001 filesize in bytes 3.758.096.384.000 plot nonces 14.336.000 endnonce 28.672.001
Plot 3 Startnonce 28.672.002 filesize in bytes 8.001.194.819.584 plot nonces 30.522.136 endnonce 59.194.138
Plot 4 Startnonce 59.194.139 8.001.194.819.584 30.522.136 89.716.275

I am using the dcct-gui for plotting with the settings i want to. In the dcct you can see how many nonces you are creating. The dcct-gui adjust the filesize dependig on how much RAM you are admitting. It is easier when the plotfilesize can be divided through the RAM size, then there is no adjusting and you exactly know the plotfile size. The created nonce are displayed in the terminal of the gui too :). then you don't need to make your own calculations.

Then you have to add Startnonce to Plotnonce and you have the hypothetic Endnonce then you have to add 1 and you get right start nonce for the next one. If you are missing the amount of noncex you can calculate it by checking the filesize in bytes with your filemanager. Then divide the filesize in bytes with 1024 and then with 256 and you get the number of nonces. F.e. 3.758.096.384.000 / 1024 / 256 = 14.336.000

here is the short version for you:

Startnonce Plot 2 = Startnonce Plot 1 + Nonces Plot 1 + 1 (= 0 + 14.336.000 + 1 = 14.336.001)

(as you can the startonce for Plot 1 was 0, it has a size of 14.336.000 nonces

then the claculation for Plot 3

Startnonce Plot 3 = Startnonce Plot 2 + Nonces Plot 2 + 1 (=14.336.001 + 14.336.000 + 1=28.672.002)

and so on. The best Solutino if you are planing a lot of plots on a lot of HDD to make and Excel file and then add the serial number of your HD behind the plots you are using. then if your HDD blows up you can easly see what plotfile has to create again. And you can use the excel file for calculating. So first a little more work but then for the rest of your life easy nonce calculating. Online there are some nonce calculator but its mor secure and even easiert to set up your own Excel calculation or Open Office Calc.

So im glad the CreepMiner is workig for you, please tell which Linux Version you are running then i could try with your setting and know which Linux is good working.

Hi , i found the error. I don't why but the run.sh had no permission. And i solved it with "chmod a+x run.sh" as root. "chmod u+x runs.sh" was the wrong command for permission. I had to use "chmod a+x" instead of "chmod u+x". Now its running and i can go on to try and learn. Next step for me is to prepare the HDD for Burstcoinmining.
My Problem is solved and the forum gives me the hint to solve it. Thanks.

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Hi,

I think Burst is one of the best projects but its unknown by normal business people now.

I don't know if Burst can win a big fish (f.e. like amazon) to use burstcoin as payment but I think it can be done more attractive for smaller business people who are a bit tech addicted.

I am using cryptos for some time now and one of the most annoying things is to to do math for the tax. For each transaction you have to do a lot of math. First you have to get price of Burstcoin for the income date then if you sell or buy something with your burstcoin you have to get the price of Burstcoin of the outgoing Burstcoin at that date. Then you have to do the math for the win.

For example, for a little cigarette shop or whatever:
"Someone buys 1 package of cigarettes in your shop for 1000 BURST:

Then you have to do the math as the shop owner

Income 1000 BURT 01.06.2018 = 10 USD (f.e.)
Outcome 1000 BURST 15.06.2018 = 15 USD (f.e.)

You got an income of 10 USD for the 1 package of cigarettes. Then you sell the 1000 BURST on Poloniex or you are paying something direct with burst on 15.06. On that day 1000 burst is 15 USD. Therefore you won 5 USD (15-10) because the value of burst goes high.

On a business you've then to make following writings to your book:

1. 10 Doller for the 1000 BURST income on 01.06.2018
2. 5 Doller for the winning of 5 Doller of higher price for burstcoin on 15.06.2018
3. If you buy something (on 15.06) for your company you could write the 15 USD to running costs of your business.
4. And if you want to you write the transactions fees for the transaction (on 15.06) to your running costs of your business too.

This is one Transaction and now think of what you have to do 1000 transactions as a professional.

For those there is a solution on cointracking.info. That makes exactly the math you need. And this is done for nearly all cryptos. You can use FIFO method or others and you can see the profit and income.

For cryptoaddicted people cointracking is realy best and easy to use esspecially for cryptotrades its realy brilliant.

But for the normal people out there with their job and their family and lack of time it's not. I think they will never want to such complicated thing.

For a normal non tech and non crypto addicted guy it has to be very simple. In best case an All in One solution Sofware / Wallet in that way:

1. Downloading software / Wallet
2. Activating BURST Account
3. Getting payments on BURST Account
   (this can be actually done bute my idea is the step 4.)
4. Software / Wallet can automatically tell the Income, the outcome and the winnings of value rising of BURST (FIFO = First in First out).

It should more simple as using cointracking.info cause its only for burst.

The Wallet / Software should display the Income in USD at the specific incoming date. The value of BURST at the specific outgoing date. And should do the math for trade winnings with FIFO method.

If i would have a small cigarette shop. And selling 1000 Packages in one year actually i would have 4000 writings in my book. And if you did 1 error on those 4000 writings the whole math is wrong when you did the error on the first one. And it's nearly impossible to find the error on that 4000. In that case for me as a small non tech and non crypto addicted shop owner it would be to complicate to do the math and i would not going to accept burst as payment option.

So in the explorer the value of Burst is shown is USD or EUR but its always the actual one of that day you are looking at.

For mass adoption it has to be simple as hell and in best case without any costs to accept burstcoin as payment.

And in best case does the Wallet or a specific software do the math for the shop owner automatic and free.

Especially for small shops it would be a good benefit. No other Crypto has actually the math build in a software.
This feature would be for small shop owner more attractiv than anything else. They don't care about electricity or anything else what we are thinking in our crypto bubble.

A small shop owner want easy get the money and easy do the math (Thats only my Opinion) and then they are thinking of all the cool features of Burstcoin and PoC.

I am no developer. Would it be possible to do a software with exactly that math for burstcoin as a decentral solution and feature of burstcoin ?

If not perhaps it would be possible to do some crossover with cointracking.info. They already have all prices for burst in their databases, it should be possible to read the transactions over the blockchain for a specfic burst adress and then automatically do the math.

And if this software would cost some money or is using a small fee it would be ok. Personally i think this feature can be a key changer.

Of course you can say then the shop owner should use contracking.info. But it has to be simple as hell and automatic and cointracking is not that simple and there is a lot of work for the shop owner.

So let me know your opinion:

1. Good idea ? I think so
2. Can it be done from a developer view as a build in feature of burstcoin ? Dedicated Software ?

Personally i cannot write code or something like that but I know my personal disadvantage of real world using cryptocoins. It's the f... math (for me). Everytime i am using cryptocoins i have to do all the creepy math. When buying or selling in FIAT I have nothing to do. I know the FIAT income and know the outcome and here we are. On cryptocoins i have to search for price at income and outcome..... . So i think for all other people its the same creepy thing so why should they use cryptocoins.

It would be nice to know how DASH is solving that math problem cause they want to be a coin for everyday use. I think nobody wants to make that complicated math every day.

What to do ? (most explanation from mac tutorial but its working with linux too)

Downloading core Wallet zip from the Burst App Team (PoCC is gone and their last Version BRS 2.2.7 has a security bug, so don't use their Wallet any more):
https://github.com/burst-apps-team/burstcoin/releases/download/v2.4.2/burstcoin-2.4.2.zip
Actually the newest stable Version is BRS 2.4.2
Type: sha256sum burstcoin-2.4.2.zip in the terminal (from the download folder) to run sha256 check for security reasons

Please make sure you are running Java 8, running with the newest Java (jre) you get several warnings during Wallet startup (you can see it in the logs or in the terminal during starting)

2. Creating an database. The program for this database you are using is maria:

2.1 Search for maria in the software repository and install maria

2.2 go to the terminal and type "sudo su" and press enter then you are on with root rights

Type the following, one line at a time, pressing enter step by step.

2.3 mysql -u root -p -h localhost
(The default password for MariaDB is blank. If it asks you for a password, simple press enter)

2.4 CREATE USER 'burstwallet'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
(Replace password by your own password)

2.5 GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON burstwallet.* TO 'burstwallet'@'localhost';

2.6 CREATE DATABASE burstwallet;

2.7 Press ctr + c to exit

3. Got to your download folder and unzip burstcoin-2.4.2.zip

3.1 go to the burstcoin-2.4.2 folder and then open the conf folder

3.2 open brs-default.properties

3.3. search for:
DATABASE

Database connection JDBC url
Append ;AUTO_SERVER=TRUE to enable automatic mixed mode access.
DB.Url=jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3306/burstwallet
DB.Username= here type burstwallet, burstwallet is your username
DB.Password= here type your password you set in 2.4

save your changes.

4. Start BRS 2.4.2 Wallet

4.1 go to the burstcoin-2.4.2 folder (and open the terminal)

4.2 type : chmod +x burst.sh (then the burst.sh is excutable)

4.3 type: ./burst.sh

4.4. The Wallet is starting with maria.db database
(blockchain is saved in /var/lib/mysql/burstwallet, the burstwallet is the database you created in 2.)

4.5 type 127.0.0.1:8125 in your browser and start the wallet interface

Conclusion: You create a maria database called burstwallet and you created a maria user called burstwallet and set a password for your database. Then you set your username and password in the brs-defaults.properties file in the conf folder from your burstcoin-2.4.2 folder and then your started your wallet.

@FlippyCakes Hi, you can use the program "chrony" from the ubuntu repository. Just search for chrony and download / install. Then it runs on startup and is adjusting the system time. It's running all the time and you have never to think of timesetting because its always on the right time. In etc/chrony you can set the timeserver you want to use. And chrony is more safe than using ntp.

Hi just search for CreeMiner. You can see some threads. The message got no response for wallet request is shown when the creepminer gets no information from the wallet. When using the local wallet please check that you are using http and not https. With https its not working. And use the development branch there are some bug fixes. And if you are using the online wallet and pool mining you have to check the url adress in your mining.config

So if you are sending and confirming nonces everything is working. But you have to checkt the actuall proccessed block. I am looking on the pools and check if the actual block of the pool is the same. It should be the same block. When your miner is some blocks behind you can't win a burst.

@LithStud Still i'm new to linux, but all in all its a very good system and better than Windows and i want to mine with Linux and it i think its possible. There are only a fews bugs that can be fixed and then its very stable and smooth with Linux.

I hope someone who really know the wallet and Linux is reading this post and creates a professional solution or can say how to fix this on my own.

With Creepsky and the CreepMiner you have a good support on Linux. He still is working on CreepMiner and you can contact him for solving problems. So from the Miner side for Linux everything is fine.

Thanks creepsky for your active help. I want to sent you some more information of the issue of creepminer stopping after the wallet message "block not accepted".

When i only restart the creepminer it seems to run normal but i can see it runs totally out of sync. It's mining on old blocks that are already done. So when the CreepMiner stops on wallet message "block not accepted" i first have to restart the local Wallet (1.2.8) and then restart the CreepMiner then it's mining with the actual block and it's working the right way until the next message of "block not accepted" is displayed by the terminal of the wallet. Then restart of wallet and CreepMiner again and so on and so on and so on ........

I'm no developer but i think its not the CreepMiner at all. Or the CreepMiner has problems in communicating with the wallet after it gets stuck and stops. So perhaps there is an issue with the wallet 1.2.8. too. I have to restart the wallet again everytime and everytime its some blocks behind the real block as i can see in CreepMiner.

So as developer you can think about this. Could it be that the CreepMiner is crushing the wallet, or the wallet the creepMiner, I don't know the dependeces on programming. So its just another hint for you for troubleshooting.

When i realy go on mining with creepminer under Linux and its working over the long run there are some BURSTS for you in reservation :), i'm thankful for all developers who makes it possible to mine burstcoin and active help. Keep on the good work and good luck on troubleshooting.

BurneMe

Hi,

i think i know the answer. The miner can plot from different HDD at the same time.

But for example if i want to mine from 100 HDD ( its just hypothetical to understand the limits of mining) can the miner without problems mine all 100 HDD ? What is the max number of HDD i should use ? 10 ? 20 ? 30 ?.

Should i start a second instance when mining f.e. with 100 HDD (i don't want to make this, i just want to know where are the limits and what a realistic setup should look like),

Actually i'm thinking with a good PC Power you can mine with 1000 HDD and it doesn't matter.

@haitch

1. both PoC1 to PoC2 convertes are using 4,5 GB RAM for each instance, i think you are right that its all it need to do the conversion.

2. Is there any Plotchecker for Linux ? I can't find it right now. (But the plots are mining fine i created them with dcct plotter and then optimizing them after plotting. The filesize is high 9 TB, perhaps its a bit to high for converting tool writen in .pl ?)

3. Rust backtrack: Ok i only disabled the miner for the HDD that gets the PoC2 file because i thought it would be ok to mine with the origin HDD during transformation to another HDD.

So what i am doing now:

Actually i have disabled mining all HDD that are on PoC2 conversion the origin HDD and the new output HDD.
I am using the converter written in rust because the pl converter throws the error with the expected x bytes.
I am trying to find another plot checker but CreepMiner can check the plots too and it says everything is fine.

If i got a solution i write a short HowTo for other Linux user.

@quibus

Hi i am testing BRS 2.0.4 until tomorrow. Then i am swichting back to 1.3.6cg and waiting for the next wallet without solo mining issues. Your suggestion was good ond github they told me to set a second setting in the brs.default.

With these settings am able to solo mine on BRS 2.0.4 :). It seems to be a workaround but now the developers are aware of this solo mining issue for the next wallet version and for the dymax fork.

For all other Solo miners if you want to solo mine on BRS 2.0.4 the solution is:

1. Make a text file called brs.properties

2. copy and paste following to the brs.properties file:

P2P.HallmarkProtection =off
brs.sendToPeersLimit=10

the brs.send...=10 setting is important. Without that setting i wasn't able to solo mine on BRS 2.0.4.

For all others use 1.3.6cg Wallet until the next Wallet for stressfree solo mining.

Now this issue for Wallet 2.0.4 is solved / you have a workaround.