The world's first HDD-mined cryptocurrency using an energy efficient and 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 builtin backends are:

• MariaDB (recommended, but complex installation)
• H2 (for compatibility/migration purposes)

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

Please take a look at http://package.cryptoguru.org/ where you can find the burstcoincg package. This will take care of the MariaDB installation for you.

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:

brs.dbUrl=jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3306/burstwallet
brs.dbUsername=root
brs.dbPassword=YOUR_PASSWORD

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'.

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

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

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

echo "CREATE DATABASE burstwallet; 
      CREATE USER 'brs_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'yourpassword';
      GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON burstwallet.* TO 'brs_user'@'localhost';" | mysql -uroot
mysql -uroot burstwallet < init-mysql.sql

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

brs.dbUrl=jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3306/burstwallet
brs.dbUsername=brs_user
brs.dbPassword=yourpassword

• 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
• Advanced transactions: Escrow and Subscription
• Encrypted Messaging
• No ICO
• No Premine

• 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

To get rid of scalability and performance we use JProfiler as our prefered Java Profiler.

For a general overview of Burst history see https://burstwiki.org/wiki/History_of_Burst

????-??-?? 1.9.1   Burst namespace; revamped configuration; migrated plain SQL to JOOQ
2017-10-28 1.3.6cg multi-DB support: added Firebird, re-added H2; support for quick binary dump and load
2017-09-04 1.3.4cg improved database deployment; bugfix: utf8 encoding
2017-08-11 1.3.2cg 1st official PoCC release: MariaDB backend based on 1.2.9

For a detailed version history of wallets up to 1.2.9 see https://github.com/burst-team/burstcoin/releases

Code quality statistics can be found on SonarCloud: https://sonarcloud.io/dashboard?id=burstcoin%3Aburstcoin

Burstcoin can be built from source using maven or - preferably - via the provided burst.sh compile script within this repository.

Numerous people have contributed to make this software what it is today. The Nxt-developers before Burst was forked off from the Nxt code base, the initial - yet anonymous - creator of burstcoin who did carve out PoS and instantiate PoC and also many small contributors who helped out with small fixes, typos, translations etc. In case we forgot to mention someone, please do not hesitate to bring this to our attention. Past contributions that have been removed from the code base are not mentioned, however. In alphabetical order:

@4nt1g0

• helping with JOOQ migration

@ac0v

• initial replacement of the H2 wallet against mariaDB in the CG-lineage of the wallet
• introduction of FirebirdDB to the list of supported DB backends, bugfixing, debugging
• streamlining helper scripts (invocation, compilation)
• work on macOS port, testing and release management
• JOOQ migration and many more things

@Brabantian

• introduction of JUnit and Code Coverage reporting
• lots of unit tests and refactoring work to make the code testable

@BraindeadOne

• providing a DB abstraction layer to allow for multiple DB backends
• implementing a load/dump mechanism for faster sync (called Quicksync)
• added SQL metrics to the code to be able to spot DB performance problems
• CPU core limit patch, so the wallet can be assigned only part of your resources

@chrulri improved wallet behavior when running under https

@daWallet did many bugfixes and stabilization improvements

@dcct

• support for parallel blockchain downloads
• various bugfixes and lib updates

@de-luxe took care of the releases between 1.2.5 and 1.2.9

@fusecavator

• initial OpenCL code (GPU acceleration support)
• critical fixes to the wallet spam-attack vulnerability

@LithMage provided fixes and enhancements to the UI

@Quibus DownloadCache

@rico666

• moved the wallet from NRS/Nxt to BRS/Burst namespace
• improvements and fixes to the documentation - revival of javadoc references
• general code refactoring and styleguide unification (Google JAVA Styleguide)
• removed obsolete/unused code - tens of thousands of LOCs
• fixes and enhancements to the UI, config streamlining also JS updates

Other contributors

Accepted pull requests improving the wallet quality in several areas were made by @Doncode, @naiduv

For further information, please visit the following pages.

Wiki: https://burstwiki.org (lots of other links)

Info: https://www.burst-coin.org/

Explorer: https://explore.burst.cryptoguru.org

Forum1: https://burstforum.net/

Forum2: https://forums.getburst.net/

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1541310 (New unmoderated)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1323657 (Alternative moderated)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=731923 (Original unmoderated)

https://github.com/rico666/cg_obup CryptoGuru Optimized BURSTcoin Unix Plotter (Linux)

https://github.com/Blagodarenko Blago's XPlotter, Windows Miner, PlotsChecker, etc.

https://github.com/de-luxe GPU assisted jMiner, Faucet Software, Observer, AddressGenerator

https://github.com/Creepsky/creepMiner C++ Crossplatform Miner

https://github.com/BurstTools/BurstSoftware Windows Plot Generator for SEE4/AVX2

https://github.com/bhamon gpuPlotGenerator, BurstMine (graphical plotter/miner)

https://github.com/kartojal GUI for Dcct Tools, GUI for gpuPlotGenerator (Linux)

https://github.com/Kurairaito Burst Plot Generator by Kurairaito

https://github.com/uraymeiviar C Miner, Pool, Block Explorer, Plot Composer (Linux)

https://github.com/mrpsion/burst-mining-system Web interface for Plotting and Mining

https://burstforum.net/category/9/burst-software