Mac Users: New to Burstcoin Wallet, Plotting & Mining
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As a new user I've faced a lot of difficulty what needed a week to solve with help of @haitch , @daWallet and some other kind miners.
Without telling the story let me tell you how I'm mining now:Wallet:
Just use the web wallet. No need to download the big blockchain DB at the begging.
Link: https://wallet.burst-team.us:8125/index.htmlAnd now activate your account by going to the faucet https://faucet.burst-team.us/
For setting up your wallet for pool mining with pool.burst-team.us
Login your wallet and paste bellow url and press enter
https://wallet.burst-team.us:8125/rewardassignment.htmlfill up:
Set reward recipient:
Passphrase: Your passphrase
Recipient:
For pool.burst-team.us enter this number: BURST-32TT-TSAC-HTKW-CC26C
leave 2 field on the top.Plotting:
Use mjminer.
Go to: https://github.com/r-majere/mjminer
and download the zip file and unzip it.
In terminal open that path(cd into mjminer-master directory)
writemake
and press enter, if you see bellow error:--- Compiling for 64-bit arch --- CFLAGS=-D OSX -D AMD64 -O2 -Wall -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -m64 as -o shabal64-darwin.o shabal64-darwin.s shabal64-darwin.s:30:14: error: single quote way too long # 64 'ptr' field (8 bytes) ^ make: *** [shabal64-darwin.o] Error 1```
open file
shabal64-darwin.s
in any text editor and replace the single quote with double quote on line 30 as bellow64 'ptr' field (8 bytes)
to
64 "ptr" field (8 bytes)
Now in terminal command/write
make
and press enter. Hope this time it'll compile successfully.for first time ploting use commad like bellow
./plot -k 6891xxx9176xxx3xxx -d /Volumes/ArchiveRB/plots -s 0 -n 409600 -m 8192 -t 3
-k : the number after it is your Numerical ID
-d: The path where you want to create the plot file
-s: Plot starting point, for first plot start with 0
-n: How much space(in nounce) you want to plot(see more bellow)
-m: How much memory you want to consume during plot your file
-t: Number of thread of you CPU want to engage to do this, check your CPU config in google to find out how many Thread you CPU haveUse plot command generator: https://github.com/robertbiswas/mjminer-Plot-Command-Generator
Download the zip and open the index.html to your browser.
Here is what @haitch thought me about it:
"For first plot
s 0 # Start at nonce 0 # next plot start at (-s value) + (-n value)
-n 380928 # Each nonce = 256KB. Divide (disk size) by (262144), then divide by (stagger size -m) : round down, multiply by (stagger size.)
-m 4096 # a nonce is 256KB, so 4096 nonces = 1GB. With more memory, multiply by amount to use
-t ? # will depend on your CPU, it's the number of threads to use - set it to number of CPU threads, or threads - 1 to make it more usable"To Plot 100GB in Macmini core i5 took 5 hours, to plot 1TB taking 36 hours.
Mining:
Use burstcoin-jminer-0.4.4-SNAPSHOT
Link: https://github.com/de-luxe/burstcoin-jminer/releasesDownload and modify file named ```jminer.properties````. I did as below, you do with your data where needed.
plotPaths=/Volumes/ArchiveRB/plots,/Volumes/ArchiveRB/plots/plot2 poolMining=true numericAccountId=6891xxx9176xxx3xxx poolServer=http://pool.burst-team.us walletServer=https://wallet.burst-team.us:8125 refreshInterval=2000 connectionTimeout=120000
Leave other conf as it is they'll take the default value. This file has very good explanation hope you'll find that very helpful. Thanks @r-majere for doing this nicely.
now go to into that directory using terminal and press command like bellow:
./run.bat
*** So happy mining! ***
Replay if you think it's helpful. Thanks
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Thank you for this, I recently sold all of my Macs, but I'll be getting another for testing soon, seems you've done your homework, much appreciated for the post!
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@crowetic Thank you.
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Just want to mention, that up-to-date jminer releases/sources can be found here:
https://github.com/de-luxe/burstcoin-jminer/releasesThanks @robert !
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@robert
Thank you very much for this guide. I will be including it in the FAQ - Mining 101. I will be PMing you about the small bounty.
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@robert You should link the jminer directly to its source. https://github.com/de-luxe/burstcoin-jminer/releases
Great Thread!
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@FrilledShark
Bounty!! That's AWESOME!!! This feelings of being a part of Burstcoin is GREAT!!! Thank you @FrilledShark
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@robert said:
@luxe & @daWallet I've updated the release link. Thanks for suggestion.
You fixed the wrong link at plotting, jminer can not plot.
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@luxe Fixed now. Thanks for correction.
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@robert Question...Can I use this for my MacBook Pro 10.7.5 ? I'm about to get a regular Windows and plot from the Windows client and mine with the MacBook.
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@chyna88 If you plot in Windows then you have to manage the file system. OS x can't write on NTFS without help of thrid party s/w, if you go for FAT then it can't manage large files. You can use mjminer to plot in mac. Let me know if you have any more inquiries.
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Thanks, Robert,.. I will give it a try!...I'll let you know
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@robert Thanks for this useful guide.
I'm currently running Blago miner in Vmware Fusion on a old Mac Pro because i just couldn't figure out how to get this running on a mac.
I just have one question tho, one i run ./run.bat i get this output. (screenshot added)
any idea what that is?
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@mafia07 said:
Blago miner
Are you using Windows in VMware? Sorry I never tried in Windows( I don't have one
). If so then why don't you use the Windows Client version. For windows I think you'll get support here https://forums.burst-team.us/topic/179/quick-guide-to-the-aio-wallet-plotter-miner
You can start again with Mac and let me know in which step you are facing problem.
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This guide might come in handy for introducing some of my Mac friends
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@robert HI Sorry, I think my previous post was a bit confusing.
So i'm currently mining on a old Mac Pro via Vmware Fusion, i'm running the windows client in there and it works.
But I have a macbook and a mac mini which i could be mining on as well but I get an error on the macbook, hence the screenshot above.
Please let me know your thoughts or if you could guide me in any way.
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@mafia07 wich Java version you have? need 8
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@Blago Thanks
I've managed to get this working, busy moving my plots now.
I've got 1TB mining on OSX now. I do notice I get this error once in a while.
#the last line on screenshot "nonce submit not successful"
or i get an error 1007What could be causing this? Is it a setting perhaps?
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