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)
- H2 (embedded, easier install)
Other DB backends are supported by the Burstcoin DB manager: https://github.com/PoC-Consortium/burstcoin-db-manager
- 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
burst.sh upgrade
will take the old nxt-default.properties/nxt.properties files and
create brs-default.properties.converted/brs.properties.converted
files in the conf directory. This should give you a headstart with the
new option naming system.
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:
DB.Url=jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3306/brs_master
DB.Username=root
DB.Password=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.
BRS can be installed using a Homebrew formula. 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.
Please install Java 8 (JRE 1.8) manually and run the wallet 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 brs_master;
CREATE USER 'brs_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'yourpassword';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON brs_master.* TO 'brs_user'@'localhost';" | mysql -uroot
mysql -uroot < init-mysql.sql
Now you need to add the following stuff to your conf/brs.properties:
DB.Url=jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3306/brs_master
DB.Username=brs_user
DB.Password=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
- Encrypted Messaging
- No ICO/Airdrops/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 improve scalability and performance, the core development team uses JProfiler as its preferred Java Profiler.