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Apparently I'm close to 6,000 posts here (damn I talk too much) , close to 4,000 in reputation, and close to 10,000 profile views. Edit, and we're almost at 6,000 registered members.

I think when I've passed all those targets, I need to send a bonus to our community. So I'll pay out a bonus when all four get passed. I've been thinking on how to do it, and an asset, although stupid, seems to be the best option. So, when targets passed:

• Asset will be created and made available. Price 0.0001 Burst, Limit 1 share per user, try and if you buy more then I'll kick you off the site - and yeah, I'm serious. If I see people trading this asset, I'll kick your ass out. And again serious.

A few weeks after the goals are hit, the asset will make it's one and only payout. After the payout, shares should get sent to BURST-ESXL-XNWN-3XDF-AAPKX - the scam asset disposal wallet. And again, If I see people buying more than 1 share or trading this asset, I'll kick your ass out.

I'm getting tired of the foul language members are using against other members. I'd like it to stop, but if it doesn't then I'm going to start throwing out temporary bans until it does. If you can't make your point politely, then don't post.

The forums are back and Cloud Flare protected.

Unfortunately I was not able to get in touch with @NSA to get the latest VM, so a couple of weeks worse of topics are gone sorry :(

Also, to make the site CloudFlare compatible, the site no longer automatically redirects http: request to https: - if you want SSL encryption on you connection, you must explicitly request it.

Welcome back, and my apologies for the down time.

H.

The 2017 Chile season has started :-)

They look so innocuous right? They're Scotch Bonnets - they'll grab you by the throat and then do their damndest to kill you .......

Apologies for the extended outage - Mother Nature conspired against me when I was doing the firewall swap. Had a major storm/tornado run through town causing me to lose power while I was troubleshooting the new firewall. Working by candlelight on my laptop tethered to my phone, I got some stuff working, but there is a lot that is still not. I'll be getting it all back on line as time allows.

H.

To all the asset owners that reissued their assets to make my asset whole again, I can not thank you enough. This was totally unexpected, but given our community, maybe it should have been expected. Either way, asset owners that reissued, post or PM your addresses, and I'll cover your re-issue costs.

The online wallets have all been replaced. Originally the online wallets were four instance of the wallet, two each on two Windows VMs. They are now each on an individual Linux box. One wallet per VM, one VM per physical host.

Hopefully this will make the online wallets more stable. Additionally the wallet used to create the downloadable DB is no longer also servicing requests. This will prevent the outages that could potentially occur when the zip was being created, and avoid the load/corruption potential on that wallet.

Also, the new online wallets include the Recent Asset Transactions add on to show your activity on the AE.

With the recent price rises, it seems like a lot of people are getting interested in Burst. Currently we're seeing 100+ new users here per day, and page views are up by 100,000/PER DAY over a month ago.

As requested, a list of the most common errors and their causes, these are the ones I can think of. If I've missed any please PM me and I'll update the list.

Wallet Errors:

• "Error 5": This is one of the most common errors we see. Error 5 is caused by using the wrong passphrase, and almost nothing else. Please don't say you're sure it's the correct passphrase - Error 5 means there is no such account, the passphrase you're using for this action has never been used to create an account - therefore it's not the correct passphrase for your account. There could be an extra space at the beginning or end, if you're copying the passphrase from notepad you can get a newline in the middle if the passphrase is line-wrapped, or a newline at the end if your highlight goes onto the next line. There is only one other cause, but an Error 5 is 99.9% of the time "Wrong Passphrase".

  The only other possible cause is you're using a wallet that is broken, and does not know about your account.

• "Cannot reassign reward recipient before previous goes into effect": You've done a Reward Assignment, then tried to do another one. The first one takes 4 Blocks before it becomes effective. Be patient and wait for the first one to complete.

• "You may be on a fork, you have mined the last X blocks": This is normally a false warning and can be ignored. Cause not yet determined.

The All In One Windows Client.

• "Script Error": Your version of Internet Explorer is out of date, or you're using a version of Windows the AIO won't run on. Install all available Windows Updates to get your OS up-to-date.

Xplotter Errors:

• "error creating stream for file e:\burst\plots...": Your drive is formatted as Fat32 or exFAT - Xplotter REQUIRES the drive to be formatted as NTFS - reformat the drive as NTFS, and it's preferred to change BlockSize to 64K when formatting.

Mining Errors:

• "DL Not Confirmed": The miner sent a deadline to the pool, but did not receive a confirmation. Normally this is a pool load issue, priority is given to processing submitted nonces, causing the confirmation to be delayed. Check the pool and see if the DL is listed. Less common, but can also be caused by the confirmation just getting lost. Work is being done on the miners to re-submit nonces that don't get confirmed.

• "Your deadline is good... for the previous block!": The pool received a nonce from you for the previous round, your miner hasn't seen that there is a new block, or the pool has moved onto a new block and your nonce was in the queue and hadn't been processed.

• "The deadline for your nonce is REALLY BAD": This normally indicates a corrupt plot file. Check the log to determine what the nonce was and which plot file it came from - delete and recreate.

• "Your Burst account's reward recipient (XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXX) does not match pool's account (YYYY-YYYY-YYYY-YYYYY)": As it says, your reward recipient doesn't match the pool. This is either because a) You've done a Reward Assignment but 4 blocks haven't passed yet or b) you're mining on the wrong pool.

• "Your Burst account's reward recipient () does not match pool's account (YYYY-YYYY-YYYY-YYYYY)" : Note the blank reward assignment - this indicates a problem with the pool wallet - please inform the pool owner.

• "Woah there! At least give me a couple of seconds to service other miners!": There's a problem with the pool server clock, please notify the pool owner.

• "json format error": There's a problem with your miner.conf file. Double check the syntax, or use JSON Checker

• "Warning <file1> and <file2> are overlapped": Your nonce calculations are wrong and you've ended up with the same nonces in two different files, wasting space, or, using the AIO you've moved files around or changed drive letters. In either case delete one of the files and replot correctly.

• "File <filename> name/size mismatch": Your plot file actual size does not match the description of the file in it's name. Use the Plotschecker tool in the "Burst Software" section to fix it.

• "File <file name> Error opening": The plot file can't be opened - normally means you're still plotting the file.

• "stagger (XXX) must be a multiple of 8": One of your plot files is bad - delete and replot.

I started this day feeling pretty down due to all the crap over the last few days, then it started getting better.

First I learned that one of the other forums mods had been banned from Wikipedia for vandalizing the Burstcoin article, then it got even better when reading about it, the Wikipedia Editors say that those forums obviously aren't the official forums .... WE ARE

Then it got even better when I noticed that my Avast plugin was no longer rating this site as Unknown - No Rating, to:

Thanks to all that that told them this was a safe place to be!

So now I'm feeling much better than I was this morning, and am now taking my wife out to lunch, so will be feeling much better when I get back.

While I'm out please play nice and keep on Bursting!

H.

@all - something went very wrong with my colo site last night. I'm still not sure what exactly happened, but I do know everything went down hard - this is not supposed to happen, the colo is also a Charter Networks 911 center, so supposedly rock solid connectivity and power. I think everything is backup now, but I had to jump through a few hoops to get reconnected and might have messed something up in the process. If anything seems to be down or not working properly, let me know here and I'll take care of it.

My apologies for the disruption of service, but this one was completely out of my control.

H.

@RichBC Oh. My. God.

Is he serious? This seems to be the complete and utter meltdown of BN.

If you have a concern about an asset, talk to the asset issuer; if not satisfied talk to me - and I'll talk to them; if still not satisfied, then post publicly - but do at a time zone appropriate time. The talks about BTCDragon started at around 2am his time. If he happened to be up, great - but if you post something negative about one of my assets 4-8 hours before I can reasonably be expected to address concerns, I'd be really, really, pissed. Express concerns at a time they can be addressed, not at a time where hysterical panic can occur.