No. Wallet is always unlocked. See screen shot below. I stake many different coins, and have the pc that can do it, the latest I-7 V3 Extreme. A 12 core intel cpu. This is the ONLY coin that doesnt stake as it should. Wallet is 1.5 (latest). Ive even removed EVERYTHING but wallet.dat from data folder and resyc from scratch. Didnt help.
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Please see my wallet inputs on post #341, and youll see many of my block sizes are 33 and 40 orbs, and have not staked in weeks.I know that min is 20 orbs to stake, but some of those blocks of 20 are from December 2014. That still doesnt sound right. I also know staking is all about luck, like hashing, but based on experience to get a stake in say a few days, what is a good size block to use? 50? 100? Im sure most of you have played around with it and found "the sweet spot", were 50 is enough to stake in a few days, as 100 will too, but 100 is just a waste. Ive tried 40 coins per block, and weeks have gone by and that block still didnt stake. What size blocks are you guys using?
Seems all OK, but you have low coin stack and may be little unlucky.
ORB PoS mining is greatly different from most PoS coins.
Standart PoS coin: PoS block reward is % from (amount of coins x age of coins / 365). It makes no sense to divide the coins into small blocks and keep the wallet staking online as long as possible. Because still get the same number of coins. Most miners start wallet once per few weeks or month collect PoS reward fast (just one or few PoS blocks) and go offline until coins mature again (like next few weeks). Difficulty is low because of low pos miners competition.
ORB PoS: PoS block reward is fixed (= PoW reward = 1 ORB at current moment). To maximize income most miners split blocks to small 20-50 coins portions and run wallets online 24/7 nonstop or at least as long as possible. pos miners competition and difficulty remain hight all time.
Example:
You have 634 coins now. It properly split and already mature. All OK.
BUT right now almost 1 000 000 (1 mil) of ORB participate in PoS mining. Most of them is properly split and run 24/7 too. So you control only about 634 / 1000000 = ~ 0.07% of total mining power of ORB network.
Max number of PoS blocks per day = 960 (1 min blocks with 2/3 PoS and 1/3 PoW). With 0.07% power you can get 0.67 blocks per day as AVERAGE with zero luck variance. Eg 2 blocks per each 3 day.
But with luck/unluck (like PoW solo mining) uneven distribution it may be few blocks per one day. Or few days (or even week or more) without single block. But on long term run it will be about 0.67 per day.
Example 2:
For single 30 Orb input expected rate of PoS generation is ~ 0.033 per day. = 1 block per 30 days of staking as average. But with luck/unluck some inputs get PoS blocks after few days, other only after few month.
