A short Introduction to BURST's POC mining

Burst uses a new algorithm for proof of hdd capacity (POC) mining. Miners pre-generate chunks of data known as 'plots' which are then saved to disk. The number of plots you store is effectively your mining speed. Every block the miner will skim through the saved plots, and come up with an amount of time until it is able to mine a block if another block hasn't yet been found. After reading through the plots is complete, your hardware can idle until the newest block.

Flow chart of the process

The plotting part is done once for each nonce, and the results are saved to disk, and the mining reads the saved data from disk.



The plotting part is done once for each nonce, and the results are saved to disk, and the mining reads the saved data from disk.

Emission Rate



Technological RoadMap

Basic pool support (done)

Improved pool support (done)

Advanced transactions( escrow , subscription , reserve funds then transfer not yet known portion later)(some done)

Automated transactions (turing complete smart contracts) (done)

BurstId authentication system

Allow linking BurstId to burst account for transfers with spending limits.

DHT for off-chain services

Off-chain encrypted messaging and voip between burstid accounts

File storage (disclaimer: still figuring out a good way to do this. this will take a while.)



Promotional RoadMap

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=731923.msg9895843#msg9895843

Software Development

Windows:



https://github.com/Blagodarenko/miner-burst Blago's Windows Miner https://github.com/BurstTools/BurstSoftware Burst Windows Plot Generator for SEE4 / AVX / AVX2 https://github.com/dawallet/burstwindowswallet Burst Wallet for Windows

Multi / Linux / MacOS:

https://github.com/BurstProject Main Develeopment: Main Wallet, Java Miner by burstdev, vbcs http://www.ciyam.org/at/ Automated Transactions https://github.com/bhamon gpuPlotGenerator, BurstMine(graphical plotter/miner) https://github.com/kartojal Burst OS, Burst ARM Tools, DCCT Tools GUI, gpuPlotGenerator https://github.com/Kurairaito Burst Plot Generator by Kurairaito https://github.com/Mirkic7 Improved Linux Burst Plotter / optimizer / miner https://github.com/uraymeiviar C Miner, Pool, Block Explorer, Plot Composer (not active anymore, fork?)

https://burstforum.com/index.php?threads/burst-address-generator.759 Burst Address Generator by luxe https://burstforum.com/index.php?threads/ann-burstcoin-jminer-beta.842 Burst GPU Java Miner by luxe https://burstforum.com/index.php?threads/plot-optimizer-gui-1-1.589 Plot Optimizer GUI 1.1 by j6jq https://burstforum.com/index.php?threads/batch-generator-for-plotter-windows-linux.768 Batch Generator for Plotter (Win / Linux)



