Do I have to keep the wallet running on my computer all the time, or can I exit, and just check in on it every couple days? If you are going to attempt to answer this question, I do not need to know about locking or unlocking the wallet.
The reason I ask, is, I am not a big fan of having multiple wallets running in the background for no reason.
You will not get any Blackcoins with your wallet off. That I can plainly tell you.
If your coins are stored offline either in a paper wallet or in a file, but you have the wallet program running, you might still get transaction fees. If the wallet is empty though I believe you would never get any fees though I might be wrong.
If your wallet is online and unlocked (or just unencrypted, which is unsafe) and you have coins in it, then you will get %1 per year. The %1 is an incentive to support the network since there is no mining any more to support the network, only wallets.
Thank you for you reply!
So does anyone else see the downfall in this? I am going to leave my wallet open and unsecure, all so I can earn %1 yearly interest? Sounds like the thieves will win in the end?
I think if someone will hack your PC and install eg. some Trojan then pass on wallet won't help you at all.
Always you can skip supporting part buy you won't earn fees and 1% (daily part interest).
Similar problem have PPC with minting while wallet need to be opened.
POS system is pretty new i think soon in future one of clones will adopt minting while wallet is locked but not now.
PPC have 6 months old and even more though rules of getting 1% intrest here you only just keep mint 8h log of for a year log in after 365 days and rdy +1%.
Note that in PPC you need mint 30days eg... BCX have 10days.
Yes POS have downsides offcourse.
But in other hand you dont figh all time with other miner at exchanges and with building minig gearall time.
AS pos miner you need more invest from own bag to deveop coin in long run you have more at beginning but you need share it to keep it alive.
You have a couple misunderstandings of how this works. Let me make it a bit clearer, as your questions are fairly common: First of all no, you do not need to be running your wallet continuously 24/7. You could unlock it for minting once once a month, collect your interest based on the age-weight of your stake, and close the wallet. Note that unlocking is a 'mint-only' command, meaning transfers out from your wallet will still require a password. Just encrypt the wallet, open it when you wish, sync, unlock and stake for a few hours, collect interest. It's that simple. The only advantage to frequent or constant minting is that the tiny amounts mature and become viable for stake themselves - hence compounding of interest. Hope that helps clarify.