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DISCLAIMER

This information is taken from various sources but is not the official source for all info. Any additions are very very welcome and will be evaluated!

Dictionary

Wallet and node

The wallet is the node, there are no separate master/smart nodes in Pulsar Coin

PoS and PoW

PoS (Proof-of-Stake) is staking reward and PoW (Proof-of-Work) is mining reward

Pulsar coin (PLSR) general info

Wallet installation and upgrade

Install the wallet from GitHub. Define where your wallet will be stored and make regular backups!

Windows

  • For security reasons, encrypt your wallet immediately (Settings > Encrypt) and backup your wallet.dat and your passphrase
  • Default path for windows is the Pulsar folder in %APPDATA% (\AppData\Roaming)

Mac

  • For security reasons, encrypt your wallet immediately and backup your wallet.dat and your passphrase
  • Default path for the Pulsar folder is probably /users/macbook/Library/Application Support/Pulsar

Linux

  • Download: wget https://github.com/PulsarCoin/Pulsar-Coin-Cryptocurrency/releases/download/v1.1.1/pulsar-1.1.1-linux_gnu64.tar.gz
  • Extract: tar xvf pulsar-1.1.1-linux_gnu64.tar.gz
  • Run in background: ./pulsard --server --daemon --banscore=10000
  • (Recommended) Encrypt your wallet with passphrase: ./pulsar-cli encryptwallet "YOUR PASSPHRASE HERE" (run previous command again as daemon is stopped)
  • Unlock your wallet: ./pulsar-cli walletpassphrase "YOUR PASSPHRASE HERE" 960000 true(true unlocks for staking, false unlocks for transactions also)

Notes

  • Run "c:\program files\pulsar\pulsar-qt.exe" -banscore=10000 to prevent your wallet being out of stake by loosing active connections or add banscore=10000 in your pulsar config file

Upgrade

When upgrading always perform a backup before starting the upgrade

Staking

What is the minimum amount needed for staking?

The minimum is 1 PLSR

How much is the stake reward?

The PoS reward is 90 PLSR

Any 'pool' staking sites?

  • For the moment only Beehive wallet seems to offer staking rewards

Is my wallet ready to get stake rewards?

For qt-based wallets:

  • Make sure you have the latest version from GitHub
  • In your pulsar.conf file make sure to have Staking=1
  • Encrypt your wallet
  • Unlock your wallet (Check the connections. If you see at least 1, you are unlocked)
  • Remain online 24h/24h

When can I expect a stake reward?

Based on input from fellow miners, consider this:

  • You never know, luck is what it mainly takes. A PoS reward is a probability.
  • More money in your wallet can lead to faster rewards

How many peer connections do I need to get a stake reward?

1 is enough! Some people have a theory that the number of connections might slightly improve your chances, however latency is more important to check (you might get an orphan block with bad latency as someone else would submit faster)

Who gets the stake reward?

There is a kind of random selection of a wallet to validate the next block and that address will get the reward

Orphan blocks

An orphan block is a block that is not confirmed and so not added to the blockchain, usually because another valid block was found and added just slightly before it. There is no reward for orphan blocks.

Debug

Where can I find the log files?

  • On windows you can find the debug.log file in the folder where you saved your wallet. Default is %APPDATA% , so \appdata\Roaming\Pulsar\debug.log
  • On Linux the default is ~/.pulsar folder (so in your home folder)

CLI

Help

  • run ./pulsar-cli -h for basic commands help and ./pulsar-cli help for Pulsar specific commands (same for the daemon ./pulsard)

Commands

  • View default wallet address: ./pulsar-cli getaccountaddress ""
  • Create new receiving address: ./pulsar-cli getnewaddress "LABEL"
  • View wallet status: ./pulsar-cli getwalletinfo

pulsar.config

Consider adding banscore, peertimeout and some nodes to your config file

banscore=10000
peertimeout=10000

# MAIN STATIC NODES https://explorer.pulsarcoin.org/network
addnode=45.63.65.34:5995
addnode=137.220.60.11:5995
addnode=149.28.244.210:5995
addnode=103.249.70.51:5995

# OTHER NODES
addnode=14.18.32.195:5995
addnode=39.164.244.3:5995
addnode=49.232.212.225:5995
addnode=62.122.201.178:5995
addnode=71.86.208.108:5995
addnode=72.206.127.43:5995
addnode=82.156.69.199:5995
addnode=95.129.58.28:5995
addnode=109.167.134.30:5995
addnode=120.88.87.45:5995
addnode=122.148.134.55:5995
addnode=152.136.184.128:5995
addnode=162.239.111.198:5995
addnode=176.215.69.198:5995 
addnode=192.3.152.135:5995
addnode=192.46.215.125:5995

Performance

Tuning your miner is very important. E.g. Using all threads except one or two will let the Operating system perform it's tasks or leave room for your GPU mining software to do its job. In the following examples, we will leave 1 thread free, use rplant (SSL) as main and coolminerz (no-SSL) as backup server, but please choose your own favorite servers. Copy this to multiple rigs/machines and just change the WORKERNAME

Linux

#!/bin/sh
WORKERNAME=example
THREADS=$(nproc --all)
THREADS=$((THREADS-1))
while [ 1 ]; do
  sudo ./SRBMiner-MULTI --disable-gpu --algorithm curvehash --pool stratum+tcps://stratum-eu.rplant.xyz:17030!stratum+tcp://coolminerz.hopto.org:3650 --wallet PVVkqGsFTu4mNRYor4YMrTXTanuDicixMM."${WORKERNAME}" --password x!c=PLSR --cpu-threads "${THREADS}"
done

Windows

Will be added in the next days

Hashrates

The results in this table is a mix of hashrates provided by real miners and from stock. Numbers may vary depending on operating system, RAM and overclock settings. These estimated hashrates are a snapshot taken at a moment in time. Numbers vary daily so use this table as a guide only.

Note: If you think of tuning your processor, there is no good over or under clocking or volting settings in the long run, temp 70-72c is pretty good and always check power efficiency as overclocking or increase voltage will consume more.

Processor Type Cores Threads clock Voltage Hashrate
SRBMiner
0.9.2
Hashrate
SRBMiner
0.9.3
Hashrate
SRBMiner
0.9.4
Ryzen Threadripper 3990x 64 128 444.15 kh/s
Ryzen Threadripper 3970x 170.00 kh/s 234.00 kh/s
Ryzen Threadripper 3960x 146.50 kh/s 188.00 kh/s
Intel Dual Xeon 2699v3 17 17 2.7 Ghz 178.67 kH/s
Intel Dual Xeon 2697v3 28 56 3.3 Ghz 143.12 kh/s
Ryzen 5950x 16 31 4.0 Ghz 146.00 kh/s 155.00 kh/s
Ryzen 5950x 16 30 4.0 Ghz 142.90 kh/s
Ryzen 5950x 16 32 4.0 Ghz 137.00 kh/s
Ryzen 5950x 16 30 107.00 kh/s
Ryzen 5950x 15 30 4.45 Ghz 131.89 kH/s
Ryzen 3950x 16 32 4.1 Ghz 1.15v 99.44 kh/s
Ryzen 3950x 16 32 115.00 kh/s
Ryzen 5900x 12 22 89.12 kh/s
Ryzen 5900x 12 24 4.1 Ghz 1.05v 85.00 kh/s
Ryzen 5900x 12 24 4.2 Ghz 1.1v 85.00 kh/s 108.00 kh/s
Ryzen 5900x 12 22 3.9 Ghz 1.2v 80.00 kh/s
Ryzen 5900x 12 24 3.9 Ghz 1.05v 79.00 kh/s
Ryzen 3900x 12 24 3.9 Ghz 1.05v 69.80 kh/s 85.00 kh/s
Ryzen 5800x 8 16 4.6 Ghz 1.25v 75.33 kh/s
Ryzen 3700x 8 15 4.0 Ghz 46.00 kh/s 64.00 kh/s
Ryzen 5600x 6 12 3.7 Ghz 43.30 kh/s 56.63 kh/s
Intel Xeon E5-2695 v2 12 24 2.4 Ghz 39.72 kh/s 49.57 kh/s
Ryzen 2700x 8 16 39.72 kh/s 50.00 kh/s
Ryzen 3600 6 12 3.8 Ghz 1.1v 35.00 kh/s 45.00 kh/s 47.00 kh/s
Intel Xeon 2560 duo 12 24 39.60 kh/s
Ryzen 4500U 6 6 32.00 kh/s
Intel i7-10700 8 16 65.00 kh/s 75.00 kh/s
Intel i7-8700k 6 12 37.00 kh/s 52.00 kh/s
Intel i7-8700 6 12 37.00 kh/s 45.00 kh/s
Intel i5-11400 6 12 32.00 kh/s 43.00 kh/s
Intel i7-7700HQ 4 7 2.8 Ghz 25.05 kh/s
Intel i7-2600 4 8 3.8 Ghz 24.00 kh/s
Intel i7-3740QM 4 8 2.7 Ghz 18.00 kh/s
Intel i5-8500T 6 6 24.00 kh/s 34.00 kh/s 40.00 kh/s
Intel i5-4590S 4 4 21.00 kh/s
Intel i5-4590T 4 4 16.00 kh/s
Intel i5-3570k 4 4 3.5 Ghz 1.15v 21.4 kh/s
Intel i5-6500T 4 4 20.00 kh/s
Intel i5-2500k 4 4 3.7 Ghz 16.90 kh/s
Intel Pentium G4560 2 4 3.5 Ghz 12.50 kh/s
Intel i3-3220 2 4 3.3 Ghz 9.50 kh/s
Intel i5-3230M 2 4 9.00 kh/s
Intel i5-4200M 2 4 7.70 kh/s
Intel i5-4570T 2 4 2.9 Ghz 5.83 kh/s 7.19 kh/s
Intel Core2 Duo T7300 2 2 2.0 Ghz 2.72 kh/s
Intel Celeron 3855U 2 2 1.6 Ghz 5.00 kh7s

Extra notes, to be checked/confirmed

  • When mining both GPU and CPU and you use SRBminer for CPU mining, always reduce 1 or 2 threads.
  • Current block height / 10, rounded up = number of coins for 1 entry. Is this for PoS reward???
  • Think about the likelihood you win a block as a 720 blocks per day * / = Estimated Amount of PoS blocks won per day
  • With about 4500 PLSR in your wallet, you have a good chance of expecting 1 PoS award (90 PLSR) per day, with 9k you could expect 2 per day
  • Wallet/daemon should be run with -banscore=10000, also repeatedly unban nodes.