Ya, whatever happened to that asshole and forum? Looks like it's really not a burst forum anymore. Burst is better for it!

Gotta love this difficulty change :D Hopefully the foolish take a while to update and we enjoy some lower diff for a while 🤣

@cybermancer said in How can I back up my Burst Wallet?:

Text file with your pass phrase on Dropbox is good too if u the only one that has access to it.

Don't do that. That's a good way to lose your entire portfolio. You're trusting dropbox to keep your files secure. Even if they don't get hacked, your personal account could.

Instead, put that txt file on a usb drive or external HDD. I wouldn't even keep it on your local drive, for fear of malware.

@screamindevnull @haitch

Thanks for the link! I've updated the op. 😎

@luxe Thanks luxe, you're awesome!

Let's create a sticky in prep of the upcoming HF; everything a typical user/miner might need. Github links would be best for linked SW.

• HF occurs @block 500,000.
• Switch to PoC2 @block 502,000 (see article below).
• HF explained: Link

PoC2 Plotters:

• xplotter: https://github.com/JohnnyFFM/XPlotter/releases
• turboplotter9000: https://blackpawn.com/tp/
• gpuPlotGenerator: https://github.com/bhamon/gpuPlotGenerator

PoC1 -> PoC2 plot converters (use this on your optimized PoC1 plot files to create optimized PoC2 plot files):

• TurboSwizzler: https://blackpawn.com/tp/
• Poc1to2Converter: https://github.com/JohnnyFFM/Poc1to2Converter/releases
• PoC-Consortium Utilities: https://github.com/PoC-Consortium/Utilities/tree/master/poc1to2.pl

Miners (able to mine poc1 and poc2 right now and after the fork)

• Blago: https://github.com/JohnnyFFM/miner-burst/releases
• jminer: https://github.com/de-luxe/burstcoin-jminer/releases
• Creepsky: https://github.com/Creepsky/creepMiner/releases (will allegedly autoconvert poc1 -> poc2, not tested)

Post-HF Wallet:

• https://github.com/PoC-Consortium/burstcoin/releases

Any other items? If you have em, please supply links, and I'll update the OP periodically.

@tylerk07 My advice: anytime you have questions on a topic, google your question. Chances are, someone has had a similar question and you'll find the answer somewhere on the first page of search results. It's the easiest way to learn about all the nuances of blockchain & crypto. Of course, you can usually find someone in a forum who is knowledgeable, too ;) :D

@tylerk07 I think that thinking in terms of price is the wrong way to think about any hf. All a hf is is a non-backwards-compatible update of the software. This happens all the time in the SW world (being a dev in rl).

IMO, the crypto world is overly-sensitized to hf's, simply because updates can trigger market movement (and we all know, 1/2 the community only cares about prices). Unless you're a day trader though, this is only a side-product of a hf. The main of it is new features! ...or at least changes which enable new features down the road.

@tylerk07 0 "truth", 100% speculation. In crypto, there's no single party that can truthfully make the statement "price will go up xyz%" for a decentralized coin. Such statements are opinion/speculation, but only that!
The fact that more than 1 are saying so is likely just an echo effect. Sheep tend to baaa after they've heard baaa :D

@majstur_bre It should be stated on your pool. It depends on which pool you're using, what their minimum balance is before auto-payout.