I still don't fully understand ppcoin.
Maybe it would help if someone explained this tx to me.
That is stake generation.
You had 284.491818 coins which you withdrew from bitparking about 34.7 days ago on 10/29 before this txn occurred. These inputs have sat in your wallet accumulating age.
As time passes, your client has tried to combine these inputs to mint a stake block. Each new second (or milisecond or some time unit) generates a new iteration which can allow the inputs to mint a block meeting the difficulty target. (Much like running a mining rig using the inputs as hardware.) The success rate (probability of minting per unit time) increases linearly with the product of coins*min(time since coins were received,90 days).
On Dec 3, attempts using the 284.491818 coins succeeded and you minted a block. The coins were approx 34.7 days old when your success occurred. You are entitled to 1% interest per year as reward. Your interest entitlement is then 34.7/365=0.095%. The principal was 284.491818 PPC. Therefore the interest is 0.27 PPC. The outputs will be escrowed for a while and then become spendable again (I think 30 days).
Congratulations you are 0.27 PPC richer. Your block was empty. However, had it contained txns, the fees for these txns would have been destroyed.
If you want to try double-spending, then you can accumulate a huge amount in 6 different inputs and try to get 6 blocks in a row. Just keep trying to do this in secret until they arrive fast enough to overtake the main chain. It is not clear how difficult this is. It depends on 1) how many coins you have and 2) how many other coins are searching for blocks concurrently. If most of the other coin holders are online, it is probably almost impossible (too expensive to ever be worth doing). If no one else is online, then it is trivial.
Of course this consideration is moot until checkpoints are removed.
BTW As I understand it, PoW blocks don't do anything useful in PPCoin at all. They are just there to pass out free coins. Aside from checkpoints, txns in PoW blocks are not secured with any confirmations until a PoS block is mined. (i.e. [w/o checkpoints] Txn in PoW block = uncomfirmed txn) This is the justification for the checkpoints.
Of course, you could ask if so, then why allow PoW blocks to have txns at all? I don't know the answer. I guess the checkpoints secure your block reward. It would seem better to include PoW generation as a txn in a proof of stake block rather than make it a "block".