Is there any requirement for how long you leave the wallet online after it sync's up before you stake?
Im asking because it's been over 60 days with no staking and I accidentally left my laptop on overnight and found it did stake finally.
I had previously only been syncing the block-chain every few days thinking that the stake would just show-up when the coins hit the correct age in the block-chain, but it appears it's somehow related to leaving the wallet open for an extended period of time.
If I have to leave it open for the coins to actually stake, the I need to move it to a different machine, as I don't leave my laptop on very much at all, except when I forget to shut it off like last night.
If I have to move the wallet, do I just copy the entire block-chain to a new box? The wallet program itself is pretty small, but the block-chain is pretty large and it would be easier to copy it to my work desktop (which is always on).
I just want to move the block-chain to the new box so I don't loose my coins in the process.
What's the best way to do this?
There is no requirement, normally you have to leave it open for 3-4 hours (unlocked), but this depends a lot on the size of your piles.
When it did stake, the "dust" merged and staked in a bigger pile?
Regarding moving the wallet, I would save the dat file in a normal way: click on the Tab File -> Backup Wallet. Now you have a dat file that you can import into the new wallet. Then let it sync, or use the blockchain from the 1st page of this thread.
I wouldn't bother with the block-chain copied from one wallet to another, it might not work and then at the end of the day you will have to sync again...
That must have been my problem, as I normally left it open only long enough to sync the block-chain. I guess im not understanding staking, as I thought that it was a fixed % amount based on the age of the coin. Wouldn't the staking have just showed up in the block-chain even if the wallet was offline, and all I had to do was catch-up the block chain?
All my deposits were from mining, and were 1DMD or slightly larger since I couldn't withdraw smaller amounts.
Yes, it appears everything went into 1 pile, although im not exactly sure how to determine the coin age, I think it reset all the ages, as it currently sais nothing is mature, where as before it just kept saying # of days to stake...
While im here, is there a website which shows the various pools and the proportion (or %) of the overall hashrate? Im on the lookout for alternative pools, since both the ones im using have a small percentage of the overall network hashrate.