OR, we could just make a plotter/miner in C for BURST. AND/OR remake the wallet in C if that's a super huge deal to everyone.

I say why not make the existing coin better, rather than cloning it? Add the features you would like to see, to THIS coin, rather than making a whole new coin just for some features that aren't here.

We have the groundwork, we have the good coin, we have people with petabytes of plots, why stop now? Forge ahead, create new tools, make changes, upgrades, fix things!

That's how we do it. Then we get some PR out here, and suddenly people aren't complaining about the prices anymore, and real investors get interested. This is all it takes.

I am helping where I can, and my dev friend has already made a windows GUI for burst for the newbies, since plotting and mining is a whole new style, and many are having issues figuring it out. YEs, there may be bugs, yes, right now it's only solo (we're working on that right now actually) and yes, there will be plenty of changes and upgrades, based on what people in the community want and need.

But this is what we have to continue doing, we have to continue making burst a commodity, something that people actually want, a coin that's easy to setup and mine, and something that's worth buying. Something that someone will want to hold.

my .02

btw there is a windows verison of the dcct merge tool?

Very well said.

But how do we make that a reality...? A got a feeling we've got a very talanted dev who, basically, works his ass off. He surely can't do everything ppl ask for alone. So how....?

Perhaps the whole Burst project needs to be more organized. Say, with a team responsible for different sections (design, marketing, c, usage, etc), together helping the dev out and improving the coin.

I'll rename it to optimize in the new version

You could concatenate completed plots as long as they combine to a consecutive set of nonces and you name the resulting file accordingly.

I've created an advanced windows port of the dcct's-linux plotter:

Current version V1.16: https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/731923.msg9120986#msg9120986

Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!DgsWFIJA!H_D0Tg-Laxwp1yvccUwZG8uRx2jgz0IBTTZ91r0IfQA
Source: https://github.com/BurstTools/BurstSoftware

Improvements against the Java miner:

• At least a 5 times better performance. With a Haswell CPUs up to 14 times.
• Break and continue a plot a latter time. Please break only between writes. Version 1.16 should always be able to continue.
• Optional asynchronous mode for writing the plots in the background. Use twice as much RAM.
• I have only access to Intel CPUs, so I don't know if it is working for AMD CPUs.
• Setting lower priority class at start up to ease the impact for foreground applications (e.g. miner)

Usage: wplotgenerator <account id> <start nonce> <number of nonces> <stagger size> <threads> [/async]
         <account id> = your numeric acount id
         <start nonce> = where you want to start plotting, if this is your first HDD then set it to 0, other wise set it to your last hdd's <start nonce> + <number of nonces>
         <number of nonces> = how many nonces you want to plot - 200gb is about 800000 nonces
         <stagger size> = set it to 2x the amount of MB RAM your system has (with async 1x the RAM your system has)
         <threads> = How many CPU threads you want to utilise
       options:
        async ... writing plots from a background-thread for best throughput (needs twice as much RAM)

Plotter	Codepath	CPU	Codename	Logical processors	Total average nonces per minute	Average nonces per thread per minute
pocminer_v1	Java	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1660 0 @ 3.30GHz	Sandy Bridge-EP/EX	12	2'048	170,67
wplotgenerator	SSE4	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5405 @ 2.00GHz	Harpertown	4	2'411	602,75
wplotgenerator	SSE4	Dual Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5650 @ 2.67GHz	Westmere-EP	24	15'200	633,33
wplotgenerator	AVX	Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1660 0 @ 3.30GHz	Sandy Bridge-EP/EX	12	15'144	1'262,00
wplotgenerator	AVX2	Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4200M CPU @ 2.50GHz	Haswell	4	7'830	1'957.50
wplotgenerator	AVX2	Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz	Haswell	8	20'233	2'529.13

Please consider donating some of your newly mined Bursts to support further development: BURST-LNVN-5M4L-S9KP-H5AAC

Happy mining!
Janror

This is a GREAT idea. Let's develop a team!

Also, I have a developer friend who's working with me on the GUI tool right now, and I know Uray and Dcct are dev's working for the betterment of this coin as well, I really think it will continue to grow with our (The community's) help!

I will gladly take part in a commission of sorts, to help the advancement of burst!

any ideas to make this a reality?

Well, for me at least was twice as fast as the linux version. 8200 nounces per minute with a i7 4770k at 4 Gh using 7 cores

Windows Burstcoin plot generator V1.15
Creating plots for nonces 0 to 10000 (2 GB) using 500 MB memory and 8 threads with async writing - using AVX codepath
Setting priority class 'below normal'.
100 Percent done. Average 8417 nonces/minute.
Finished plotting.

wow
i7 2600

This is great! I'll send you over some BURST.