So, Burstcoin sounds super interesting to me due to the low power consumption and kinda cheap one-time investment for reuseable hardware.

There's one thing that's bugging me. I haven't read the whitepaper yet and I'm trying to avoid reading it.

So I'm plotting a huge chunk of data. Later on, I'm "mining" by reading just a portion (?) of it and with some luck I return a deadline. This is the part I don't understand.

• Where does this deadline come from? I mean, they're in my plots, but how are they calculated? Random numbers out of thin air?
• Why is it good to have the lowest deadline beside being the one winning the block?
• How does the network benefit from someone having a low deadline?

I have to admit I haven't found a guide explaining these things. Most of the time they explain how to get started and all that, which was super easy.