Burstcoin Tool For Mac

In this post I will show you how to mine burstcoin a.k.a. Burst using a computer running Windows and a software called Burstcoin Client All in one.

The world's first HDD-mined cryptocurrency using an energy efficientand fair Proof-of-Capacity (PoC) consensus algorithm.

This wallet version is developed and maintained by the PoC consortium(PoCC) and supports a multitude of database backends. The two builtinbackends are:

MariaDB (recommended)
H2 (embedded, easier install)

Other DB backends are supported by the Burstcoin DB manager:https://github.com/PoC-Consortium/burstcoin-db-manager

Software Installation

Linux (Debian, Ubuntu)

fetch the newest release ZIP file

If running for the first time,

install Java
install MariaDB
run burst.sh help
probably you want to do burst.sh import mariadb

if upgrading your wallet config from 1.3.6cg

will take the old nxt-default.properties/nxt.properties files andcreate brs-default.properties.converted/brs.properties.convertedfiles in the conf directory. This should give you a headstart with thenew option naming system.

Windows

MariaDb

In the conf directory, copy brs-default.properties into a new file named brs.properties.

Download and install MariaDB https://mariadb.com/downloads/mariadb-tx

The MariaDb installation will ask to setup a password for the root user.Add this password to the brs.properties file created above in the following section:

The MariaDB installation will also install HeidiSQL, a gui tool to administer MariaDb.Use it to connect to the newly created mariaDb server and create a new DB called burstwallet.

MacOS

BRS can be installed using a Homebrewformula. A short tutorial on how to install BRS using homebrew can be found at ecomine.earth/macos.

A number of other Hombrew formulas (written by Nixops) are also available for plotters and miners.

Other Unix-like systems

Please install Java 8 (JRE 1.8) manually and run the wallet by using burst.shYou can get further information calling burst.sh help

A good HowTo for running the wallet on a mac can be found herehttps://www.reddit.com/r/burstcoin/comments/7lrdc1/guide_to_getting_the_poc_wallet_running_on_a_mac/

Configure and Initialize MariaDB

The Debian and Ubuntu packages provide an automatic configuration ofyour local mariadb server. If you can't use the packages, you have toinitialize your database with these statements:

Configure your Wallet

Now you need to add the following stuff to your conf/brs.properties:

Docker

latest : Latest tag of the BRS with H2 database
mariadb : Latest tag of the BRS with MariaDB database
2.2.6-h2, 2.2-h2, 2-h2 : Version 2.2.6 of the BRS with H2 database
2.2.6-mariadb, 2.2-mariadb, 2-mariadb : Version 2.2.6 of the BRS with MariaDB database

Note (H2 only):
H2 dump username and password has been changed through updates. The current dump has the user 'sa' and password 'sa' which is used in the BRS 2.2.1 image. If you get username errors, please mount your custom config for your H2 file.

Old username and passwords:

both empty
or
burst - burst

MariaDB

H2

Upgrading

Ensure the PoC-Consortium github is in your list of remotes:

If it's not, add it:

Replacing X.X.X with the latest tag, run these commands:

Striking Features

Proof of Capacity - ASIC proof / Energy efficient mining
Fast sync. with multithread CPU or OpenCL/GPU (optional)
Turing-complete smart contracts, via Automated Transactions (AT) https://ciyam.org/at/at.html
Asset Exchange and Digital Goods Store
Encrypted Messaging
No ICO/Airdrops/Premine

Specification

4 minute block time
2,158,812,800 coins total (see https://burstwiki.org/wiki/Block_Reward)
Block reward starts at 10,000/block
Block Reward Decreases at 5% each month

Tools

To improve scalability and performance, the core development team usesJProfileras its preferred Java Profiler.