Back around the 4th of July Best Buy had a sale on 8TB Western Digital EasyStore external hard drives. So I thought about it and decided it was time to shrink the burstcoin rig and just make it simpler. Around the beginning on the year I had got a Lenovo Thinkcentre M93p (AKA Lenovo Tiny)…
Back in December of 2017 I found Burstcoin by hopping through random YouTube mining videos. I was curious on the current state of mining because of the hype around Bitcoin hitting $20,000 and the popular of Ethereum and others. I use to mine bitcoin back in the day when it was less then a dollar…
At the beginning of the year I set up a dedicated Brustcoin node to help grow the community grow. When you configure the node you have the option to add a DNS name so when you’re looking at it on one of the public node explorers it’s easier to find.
After evaluating hardware mining and the costs involved I decided to transfer the 1.25 out of the full node and shut it down. Granted I would love to build a new mining machine and start mining a bunch of coins but, personally this spring i want to put a deck on my house more. So…
Introduction For the last month I’ve been mining Burstcoin because some how over the last 6-7 years I’ve acquired 20TBs of random 1TB or larger hard drives and enough extra server components to be able to plug 14 mismatched hard drives into one machine. In turn I read a lot about Burstcoin and how to…
For this post to make sense I have to start with a side story. Back in the day (2005-2008ish time frame) I was a huge fan of Digg.com and the Diggnation podcast. The podcast was hosted by digg.com founder Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht. In summary the Diggnation podcast reviewed the top/popular stories on Digg.com…
As a professional it the IT industry it’s impossible not hear about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Personally I started back when Bitcoin was worth less then a dollar by mining with video cards and USB miners. I cashed out when Bitcoin hit $150 a piece thinking that it could go above that…. Well I was wrong….