OK it goes up and down, currently at 8467. I think the exact size will be a function of the current Reward for a Block * number of confirmations before a payment is made?

Rich

Are miners coming back...?

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.

Ok let's just pretend that Burst becomes very successful, and becomes worthy of significant investment  How sure are we that the algorithm used for plotting and then scanning the plot cannot be put into an ASIC such that the processes can be done on the fly, negating the need for prior plots and moving it to where other coins are in terms of development and ongoing running costs?


Rich

Not sure what's happened on ninja or if it's just my imagination? All of the familiar named Miners seem to have been overtaken by ones  just with Burst addresses and what used to be a sea of blago faces have been replaced by the letter u?

Does someone have a list of the Miners represented by the letters? I can see u, j, p, x and blank?


Rich

Can someone refresh my memory on plots.

Once a plot file is created  out of all the miner software mentioned above, which ones can be used with the same plot file.

A plot file can be read by all miners. All plotfiles is created equal. The only difference is the engine (Like java vs C+) and tell the pool the deadlines.

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From the other thread

This wouldn't work. The reason behind creating an asset is to provide the owner with some starting funds. If I had 50% of taken from Margin or Vector I would pay 50% less. Simple?
If a escrow could handle distributing the assets, it would preventing a dump by the owner. (Still vulnerable to ICO scam).

Instead:
When creating an asset, you should be able to prove some starting funds, this would kill some plain dumb assets. (Ether guy had none, btw he later created a ponzi based in Ether , also Playground bought zero of his own assets.) You could also request more personal information, like proving an real address (Not cryptocurrency) or having a trusted member see your personal ID (in extreme cases).
I know this would stop many assets, most them would be very simple with no security. Instead assets with better security and concept would rise in their place.

I was one in the top with steady payouts but no mre... I have no idea what's the deal, but I noticed my income have droped almost by 50% in a day. But dl are dl...

The top12 on this block use uray's miner, which is a bad miner... Weird.

I know that when the difficulty is high your payout is less. right now their are more miners and the difficulty is almost at 9000. Now too me this feels like the current difficulty of mining bitcoins however you are using less electricity  so this is where it pays off to mine burst.