I downloaded armory and started it. It never went online.

Then i dowloaded Bitcoin core and had it resync the blockchain. Core is working fine.

Then i started armory again.

Armory does not go online at all even after hours. Also no indication in the user interface or popups that anything is ongoing or wrong.


got this in the log

2017-07-30 23:51:09 (INFO) -- SDM.pyc:169 - Found bitcoind in the following places:
2017-07-30 23:51:09 (INFO) -- SDM.pyc:171 -    C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\daemon\bitcoind.exe
2017-07-30 23:51:09 (INFO) -- SDM.pyc:173 - Using: C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\daemon\bitcoind.exe
2017-07-30 23:51:09 (INFO) -- SDM.pyc:337 - Called startBitcoind
2017-07-30 23:51:09 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.pyc:667 - Executing popen: ['C:\\Program Files\\Bitcoin\\daemon\\bitcoind.exe', u'-datadir=C:\\Users\\denni\\AppData\\Roaming\\Bitcoin\\']
2017-07-30 23:51:09 (INFO) -- SDM.pyc:450 - PID of bitcoind: 6192
2017-07-30 23:51:09 (INFO) -- SDM.pyc:451 - PID of armory:   13616
2017-07-30 23:51:09 (INFO) -- ArmoryUtils.pyc:667 - Executing popen: ['.\\guardian.exe', '13616', '6192']
2017-07-30 23:51:09 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:1913 - Setting netmode: 1
2017-07-30 23:51:09 (ERROR) -- BDM.pyc:200 - DB error: C:\Users\denni\AppData\Roaming/Bitcoin/blocks is not a valid path
2017-07-30 23:51:09 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:1913 - Setting netmode: 0
2017-07-30 23:51:09 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:1895 - loadBlockchainIfNecessary
2017-07-30 23:51:09 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:4644 - Dashboard switched to "Scanning" mode
2017-07-30 23:51:09 (INFO) -- ArmoryQt.py:4644 - Dashboard switched to "Scanning" mode


You need to do path arithmetic with OS specific calls :  2017-07-30 23:51:09 (ERROR) -- BDM.pyc:200 - DB error: C:\Users\denni\AppData\Roaming/Bitcoin/blocks is not a valid path

also, i had thought armory was tested before launch.  i'll get me another wallet.

i've got windows 10 64 bit and i figured i would run a fullnode too, just because.

The program has already crashed twice, with nothing remotely resembling a human friendly error message, like, what it was it could not read (or where). it just crashes with various very generic messages. This is the only program that crashes regularily on my pc and i have no idea why, because the error messages are too generic like "cannot read database"  hey! how about also writing on what drive, and in what dir, and what went wrong..

i don't feel like i would dare to trust this software with my bitcoins when it can't even bootstrap itself from the net, when it doesn't even seem to know itself why it crashes.

Dollar cost averaging ( i guess bitcoin cost averaging ) is your friend. buy a little once in a while, and you won't get caught at a bad price on average.

one of my 4TB external drives started acting up big time. So i unplugged it and bought 16TB more diskspace to replace it.  Turns out it the box circuit was bad, after i took the drive out and plugged it in directly and repartitioned it, it seems to work just fine.

When i have sorted out usb connections, i will finally get past 100TB plots, took some time to get to 3 digits, i'm out of cheap ways of expanding, but now i *have* the 16 extra TB, i'll sure as hell find a way to connect them wo breaking the budget. Might move some of the smaller drives to USB2.

At the current price, the burst i've mined and kept are worth quite some more than the drives i've bought. PC's would be online anyway as they do other stuff too.

Burst team is stronger and wider than ever, future is looking bright.

the 50 miners on that pool could be the same person. At least it seems their funds get sent to the same poloniex funding account. They may have an arrangement to collectively sell the mining profits and send btc to the owners, that would make sense, easier if it's all automatic.

my guess is that it's a small number of people running the operation, perhaps only one. But they seem to know what they're doing and they are very welcome to help us making the burst chain much stronger.  The stronger the chain, the higher the security and the more attrative the coin is, so it gets valued higher.

here's hoping more whale miners show up so the coin gains value.

i'm chugging along with my near 100TB, and i'm staying at that level for now. My capacity is not that far from maxed out , so i'll wait a bit bf jumping the next hurdle.

Different professional beggars use different faucets.  for example we have this thug, http://burstcoin.biz/address/7598295698519239943  Peter Knotek

if you look at his transactions a lot of the money sent to him, has been sent by (newly created) wallets that in turn has been asking several faucets for money. But it all ends up in his acct.

Just because something is possible, it is not right. I hope he is ashamed of himself and his abuse of generous people who runs and funds the faucets.

This is not the only accout, but the pattern is more or less the same.

We can hope that he gets tired of abusing the faucets and start trading or something, we can always use more burst trading volume.

Reminder to whoever it might concern

The faucets have been set up by generous people who want to help out new users to get a few burst.

they are not set up so professional beggars can create accounts and beg for money, then move the money to their own account.

be a nice girl and send some of the burst you hustled your way to, back to the faucets you took it from.

nice mkt.cap gain these last 24 hours.

I did not sell any of my burst, and i don't plan to.   Perhaps when we get on par with the NXT market cap, then i'll take a look at exchanging some BURST to other coins

I'm having problems with 1.2.6 java burstcoin wallet.

i extracted the 1.2.6 download to an empty directory and started the wallet, making it download and rebuild the chain from scratch.

after a long while, i got this on the console :

2016-08-07 12:46:57 INFO: processed block 250000
2016-08-07 12:51:01 INFO: processed block 255000
2016-08-07 12:53:25 INFO: Block not accepted

(suggestion : print out the block# not accepted or some other identification)


when i go to the web interface, i get this :

Recent Blocks :
259289 8/6/2016 01:56:07  270.73862988 + 5       5

but now it is 2016-08-07 and UTC time is 11:16 or thereabouts.

so it seems my wallet printed Block not accepted and then gave up on syncing

Need advice as what to do now.

CTRL+C and then just restart it?

the advantage with the larger file is that it probably is the fastest option. More files will be a tiny bit slower, but as long as it's only like 30 files or so, it should barely be measureable, overhead is just the opening and closing of more files in the operating system.


The advantages of smaller files are several.

with smaller files, a disk error that make a bit unreadable will potentially make the entire huge file bad for reading.. With smaller files, you could rename the file with the "hole" in it, and keep mining the rest until the disk finally breaks down for good

also, with smaller files, it is easier to rearrange things. I have some drives that has both burst stuff and other stuff, and when other stuff needs more space, i just move a 250GB burst file to some other drive with more space. If i had made files in teraby sizes, it would be harder to adjust to other needs. Now i can increase or decrease the burt usage of any drive in 250GB steps (as most of my files are that size)

i create batch files to create my plot files, and keep a spreadsheet to keep track of what is where. With more files you will have more administration, keeping track of what nonces you have plotted and where they are. ( don't remember how many drives i have with burst plots, but it is probably 20 to 30 drives on 3 pcs - the spreadsheet remembers what and where for me )

In my continuing attempt to make the coin even safer, and get me a longterm burst income stream, and of course to protect my largish burst holdings, i have purchased more disk space and will be adding 8TB in the following days. Almost 10% enlargement of my plot size. That should bring me up to a little over 93TB burst plots. Difficulty as of writing is 289467.
 

You can mine spare GBs on an already turned on computer without spending hardly any extra power or money or bandwidth. That's the best ROI as there is nearly no cost, except perhaps a watt extra due to some extra disk activity.  If you buy harddisks, the ROI is lower of course, because you have to earn to pay back the cost of the harddisk. If you also buy a computer, then you have to pay off extra power and the computer as well.   So i'd say the small miners are the ones who get the most %age wise return on investment.

The only difference is time. You could argue that each extra TB set to mine cost less and less of your time to set up. Everything else seem to favor the smaller miners, who can mine on equipment they already have, and already have turned on.

My experience is that you have to set off some time tweaking things when you reach 20 to 30 TB per computer. That's more time for big miners. Also big miners have to make sure things run with a good uptime, as downtime cost a lot of burst, so you tend to spend more time making sure systems are online and working well.

If the burst price is low, and you are impatient, it might be easier just to buy burst, and help with the advancement of the coin ecosystem

Burst is now in top-100 on coinmarketcap

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/

at #99

If we get anywhere near a situation where one miner have a lot of power (counting the new miners as one) i'll resume my TB upgrades and so will others too i guess.

I'll add 10TB this month, just to show some commitment. I have 85.42 TB now.

If new miners sell their burst on the exchange as soon as they mine them, it is bad for burst price in the short run, but i guess in the long run it doesn't matter much, somebody has to buy them, and those buyers will get a sizeable rebate and make a good return.  When bitladen stopped selling, burst went up a lot in price. That rise did not go to bitladen, but to the people who kept their burst, and to people who bought burst off the exchanges when it was cheap.

1. What makes burst special is all the stuff we got from NXT as well as a few extra bells and whistles that has been added to burst, that NXT lack. The end user might not care that much if burst was mined with ASIC, GPU, CPU or harddisks - but it seems that harddisk mining spreads the mining out on more people, as it is easier to get a meaningful return wo burning a lot of watts, so ppl with expensive electricity can join the mining.The coin might be considered safer than coins with more concentrated mining. BURST is not (yet) about storing data, but should this be implemented we'd have a running start as the network is already larger than most other coins storing data, which are only in beta. We've been with between 4 and 10 petabytes for a long time (4000 to 10000 terabytes)

2. I think what burst could do is to introduce data plots as well as mining plots so miners can decide either to mine or to store data or both. The advantage is that we already have a real friggin' big lot of harddrive space with BURST, so should we start doing data, capacity will be awesome compared to the competition.

3. I haven't bothered measuring, but personally with 80+TB i never have issues with bandwidth. The mining is exceptionally smart designed, your computer read a small part of your plots from your drives, which gives you a deadline time, say 3 minutes.. computer just wait until 3 mintes have passed and only if nobody else have started a new block, computer do the block and send it to the network... so unless you have the best deadline, the only network traffic computer need, is for wallet to get new blocks and sync up with other wallets..   You will spend a good bit of disk-bus bandwith inside the pc, reading data off disks though, but only once every 4 minutes or thereabouts and then only for 30-40 seconds, if you use USB3 or SATA. (at least that's my timings with up to 8TB large disks).

If you are on windows and go 20TB plus per box you might start having fun with some bad design in the windows OS, where it seems windows disk cache does not release memory as fast as it uses it, slowing down the system, using lots of RAM, swapping out important stuff. W10 is much better than W7 with this, but can still be troublesome, you will have to tweak stuff a bit to get it to run smoothly, but only if you go way high on number of disks and terabytes, i guess 20TB+ is where the first problems kick in, on some rigs, not on others.

Disks breaking down is not the main risk. From own experience (now have 80+TB) i would estimate at least 80% of all burst drives, used or new, will last for more than 2 years. The future price of burst is the main risk, as i see it. If burst falls, you will need more time to break even, and if burst rises, you could make a lot more than your initial investment. Cost of watt is an issue also, but a lot less of an issue than for GPU and ASIC mining.

I decided to keep all the burst i made, which makes me much more sensitive to burst price swings - as long as i see a bright future for burst, i'll keep my coins.

good idea. Maybe as simple as a link in the red area, called Setup Instructions that go to a static html page with relevant setup info
- what to download (with links)
- sample config file changes for the most popular miners
- how to do the reward assignment
- and a link from the static html page back into the main page

Although maybe not such an urgent change as it seems 500+ people figured it out already, so it's possible do get it done wo the help.

Thanks, Great to hear, and good to see that this works (attracts enough ppl wanting to run nodes to keep the chain safe)

Stumbled upon qora bc it is often mentioned in our burst coin forum (both coins have AT, and i think they have a working AT exchange functionality, at least experimental).

I cannot find any info about how the coins that you get for staking are created or calculated. Are they simply the transaction fees, or are new coins put into existance, creating inflation, or some other scheme i haven't though of?

I am considering investing in some qora, but in general i don't touch cryptos where my holdings gets inflated away in all eternity (i'm okay with inflation in the distribution phase, as we have it with BTC and burst and many others)

One important difference.

Solo mining needs a local wallet.

Pool mining uses the pool wallet.

If your local wallet is not kept online and in sync 24/7 then you might get more burst in a pool, simply because you don't have a lot of wallet outages at the pools, and that the average pool operator will know quite fast if his wallet is down (hundreds of users will alert him)

I am solo mining 81TB now, on 3 PC's each running their own wallet, and i have missed blocks where i had a good deadline only bc a wallet had stopped working for some reason, or the wallet worked, but didn't manage to propagate the block for some reason.

So... until you have a verifiable stable wallet running under your own control, i think it might be best to use a pool, so you can concentrate on having your miners running well.

I am running 3 private wallets for mining, and i think they are doing okay, but i have outages. If i was to start a pool, i would have to put in some work to get those wallets more stable.

who know, perhaps I might make more on a pool, simply bc a good pool wallet loses me fewer blocks due to technical issues than my local ones. (windows 10, original java wallet)

moved to luxe's jminer this weekend, and it helped a lot on stability - the original POC miner was tough on RAM and CPU, which made mining slower that with jminer.

i don't want to take sides, but i think burst.ninja has a cool informative interface, once you figure out what it's all about, and i think if i was to mine, i would probably go there. Then pinballdude would be a colored bar instead of black as it is now...