I am aware of the fact that it cost you hardly nothing to get some Burstcoins without the need to purchase extra Harddisk. I mined on Burstninja and with my laptop and 1,1Tb plotsize i gathered about 350Burst/day. But the last 2 weeks was that devaluated to 70-90 Burstcoins. 80 burstcoin against the low price of 50-70 sat is too low for me. It is better to join a signature ad-campaign and buy the Burstcoin. . This night i have tried an other pool and was back at my normal level of 350 Burstcoins. Only the Blago miner stops working unexpected now and then.

Only little more than a day left for a successful crowdfund but the Android App is 95% ready for the first release.

Also small contributions are welcome.

https://wallet.burst-team.us:8125/atcrowdfund.html

What happens if not 100% are reached?

I kicked another 150K in - hopefully the community can get this funded!

H.

I am still not sure wether I have mentioned this design idea in the old announcement thread or not.
Regarding the pool situation I think the time has come to think about a sort of distributed pool design which is only coordinated from a central instance.

Most of the amount of work a pool has to do is to verify the received shares to calculate the reslulting deadlines.
Set the fact that miners can do this work instead of the pool there has only to be some sort of verification.

If we look at the pool like a p2p network it is possible to let miners verify the shares for other miners before the pool actually verifies them on its own.
This design requires to add some additional logic into the miners for the pool but may cut down the cpu costs for verifying shares in time to almost 0 since the pool servers would only require to test the submitted share deadlines which have a chance to mine the block (the others get verified by the miners of the pool).

I know this requires some coding and testing but in the end this enables to scale almost as much as bandwidth allows.

To explain this design a bit more in detail you can think of these behaviours as examples:

minerA finds a deadline and submits it to the pool --> the pool dispatches this for verification to 3 random miners --> the random miners decline or confirm and the deadline gets accepted

minerA finds a deadline and submits it to the pool --> the pool dispatches this for verification to 3 random miners --> a timeout (eg. 20 seconds) happens without answer and the pool verifies the deadline on its own

minerA submits a deadline which could find a block --> the pool verifies it on its own and submits the block to the network


the main development which is required would be to design the backend, a protocol to transmit the workloads and the miner integration.

most of this should already exist and only the distributed deadline verification would have to be added.

The nice part of this design is that the miners may also receive a stake of the pool fees for the verification work they do.
I have not played with numbers yet but this means that even small miners can benefit from large miners and it allows to count in even high deadlines (eg. <50m seconds).

quick and dirty, would be better to have some commas replaced by points but this requires more time (changed words are underlined; mod the reply out when not needed anymore):

BURST has been launched in August 2014, so much happened the first year. However, the main developer
BurstDev (burstcoin on https://bitcointalk.org) slowly disappeared from the Dev-areas of BURST without
leaving much notice. Even though miners stayed loyal, something has to be done to keep up the
development!


It sounds more dramatic than it was. Day by day, people started to understand something had to be
done. A new (with some guys from the early days) a DevTeam had to be created. At an early stage
crowetic was pro-active, working to create what was needed with some other guys.

One important step to this, although if it seemed small, was building a new Announcement Thread (ANN) at
https://bitcointalk.org.
1 The old one had grown to over 1,200 pages; to be fair, it did have an enormous
amount of knowledge but it is totally unorganized and therefore it is very hard to find what you are looking for. In
addition, the Devs at the time were also unable to edit the Opening Post (OP) of the old thread, making
it quickly outdated. The new thread is a great success with less spam and relevant posts. The old thread
became like a reference library to new.

Behind the scenes, work to recruit new, improved and dedicated developers for BURST took some time.
However, today, the DevTeam was presented at the new ANN-thread at https://bitcointalk.org. Let’s
present them, some new, some familiar and some old faces (or should we say “nicks”).


As you all know, DCCT has been with us since the very beginning of the BURST, and has done some
amazing things for the coin, community and software, including one of the best miners ever for linux. He
is now helping us by becoming the official core dev, the main developer for BURST.


fuse (fusecavator, would like to be known as 'fuse') and vbcs are truly awesome. Fuse came to us with
some great topics, and has already implemented his suggested changes into the code, and these will be
put into the next release of the BURST wallet. vbcs, as you all know, has been around since day one as
well. He is happy since a Crowdfunding started for him was a success and he agreed to work with
BURST continually as part of the team. We are very lucky to have him as he is a fantastic developer. Fuse,
though new, is also a fantastic Dev and we've grown already tremendously fond of him, we know that
these two will make wonderful things together! We're truly honored to have them!



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clepto.design is a personal friend of crowetic, who helped him to get his company started which will be posting
a temporary page soon on clepto.design. We've decided he will be a tremendous help with graphics.
We thank him for what he has done so far which people will see shortly. we know he will be a great
asset in the future!


daWallet has already proven himself to be a massively beneficial member to the BURST team, and has
been extremely valuable and trustworthy. he has made BURST MUCH easier to use with his Windows
GUI, and continually released updates. He is also currently working on ANDROID DEVELOPMENT!


daWallet Kleinstein kartojal - We haven't seen Klein or Kart around for some time, but we do believe
they are not gone, and we do know that daWallet has a small team under him that will also do
mobile development and android stuff.


luxe has proven himself to be extremely valuable with his GPU miner release and much more, he is also
currently helping dcct with core dev. We are extremely proud to have him on our team. We think he will
continue to prove himself as a fantastic dev and great asset to the team!

As luxe already has been discussed, it’s time for Blago. He has been around for quite some time and
has proven himself not only to be the most awesome of miner developer, but also, the most Russian! We love
Blago and are very pleased to have him as part of our team - Thank you Blago!

In the context of BURST development, there are more, random Devs, who we haven't seen in a while
but believe will still be part of the team. cryo, googs, catbref, and cheester to name a few. Above is
the active team above. We also have a lawyer, a CPA, and a marketing master which we will remain
nameless for the moment.


Stay tuned to BURST, the hard-disk minable crypto not far to celebrate two years of low-energy, secure,
decentralized and suitable mining! For the future, we have much more to enjoy – wait & see.

thats all for now but more revising may be good

I would like to thank you for the hard work u have made for Burst. Keep it up!

Is DEV v2. pool back online?

One of our angels just donated me another 1.2 million to finish this funding. I will be putting it to the CF here shortly.

THANKS ANGEL!