Topic: [ANN][CLAM] CLAMs, Proof-Of-Chain, Proof-Of-Working-Stake, a.k.a. "Clamcoin" - page 76. (Read 1151252 times)

From what I experienced, I don't think #1 and #3 make a difference.  For #2: I suspect, though I am not really sure, that it is your network performance that will play a difference.  Perhaps someone can pitch in.

But regardless, staking on your own involves waiting for a period of time before you'll stake something -- this "time" is not uniform, meaning you may experience a drought and not get anything for a long time, and then you'll get a bunch in a rather small amount of time. (The other option will be placing your coins in a staking pool, though I don't thank that is not on your questions above.)

For #4: I didn't do any tweaking, though as I understand, you'll want to be careful in terms of security, as your wallet will be open all the time and you wouldn't want security to be compromised. 

Perhaps some others can add more info. All the best.

Hi everyone,
i want to give staking a try, basically just for fun (with the amount of CLAMS I own, it takes probably a few years before i get lucky )
Nevertheless, I have some questions.
1.) Does the age of the coins make any difference (does it matter if a coin is one day old or three years old?)
2.) Does the performance of the PC used make difference
3.) Does the Operating System and the version of CLAM in use ("Commandline" vs. GUI) make a difference?
4.) Do i have to open and forward some ports in my router (like running a node in Bitcoin Core?)
5.) General advice for Staking (apart from having a huge amount of CLAM )?

Thank you to anyone helping me.

I made an updated bootstrap.dat file for people having trouble syncing their client.

It goes up to block 1852000 which was staked on Mon Jan  8 20:13:52 UTC 2018.

It's available as a download here:

  bootstrap.dat

or as a torrent here:

  bootstrap.dat.torrent

Download it, put it into the same folder as your CLAM wallet.dat, then restart the client.

If you are using the QT client, it will say "importing blocks" in the lower left corner while the bootstrap.dat file is imported. That is how you can tell that the file is being used.

It will take a while to import it, but it will be a lot faster than trying to sync using the p2p network.

When it is done, the client will rename the file to bootstrap.dat.old and won't look at it again.

Once it has been renamed you can delete it if you like.

To verify that you have the right file:


Edit: I also made a series of 'partial' bootstrap files. Each one contains the block data for 10,000 blocks.

  https://s3.amazonaws.com/dooglus/bootstrap-000.dat is blocks 0 through 9999
  https://s3.amazonaws.com/dooglus/bootstrap-001.dat is blocks 10000 through 19999
  https://s3.amazonaws.com/dooglus/bootstrap-002.dat is blocks 20000 through 29999
  etc.

I'll add a new one for each new set of 10k blocks. Currently they go up to bootstrap-184.dat

So if you already have everything up to block 492123 and want to get up to date, download the -049, -050, etc. files, append them all together in order into bootstrap.dat in the same folder as your CLAM wallet.dat and restart the client.

In Windows you can append the files together by running "cmd", and using something like:


In Linux the command would be:

if u check github:"committed on 20 Jan 2017" :/
@dooglus ? Info please

Who is working on it?

Registered, sent some Clams there (fortunately, complete sync is not required for sending) and invested them. Works flawlessly, profits already covered the transaction fee

I second this. You dont necessarily have to gamble, it's possible yo just leave your coins there for staking. It gives extensive stats too, like you can know how much profit you got at the moment.

Definetly just-dice.com , it's also gambling site so if you choose to leverage the investment youll feel the gambling profits aswell.

Yeah social networks arent that used.
A new release is on testnet right now I think.

Who is the dev? im checking twitter and its dead

if u check github:"committed on 20 Jan 2017" :/
@dooglus ? Info please

Who is the dev? im checking twitter and its dead

It seems to be a standard text message that they put up for any coin they're having trouble with.

They don't reply to developer attempts to help them so I don't know what's wrong.

Just-Dice.com is staking 1083323 CLAMs and staked 1236 times yesterday. That's one stake per day per 876 CLAMs, or 0.114% per day.

Definetly just-dice.com , it's also gambling site so if you choose to leverage the investment youll feel the gambling profits aswell.

What is the expected probability/percentage of staking?

41% is not bad. If there are staking pools for Clams, it probably makes sense to send my coins there. Which one would you recommend?

Estimated return in clams (NO COMPOUNDING) :: ... 41.0331677% return/year ... 3.3725891% return/month ... 0.1124196% return/day ... 0.0046842% return/hour ... 0.0000781% return/minute ... 0.0000013% return/second

I know nothing about probabilities but I do know that with small amount of coins staking outside of just-dice or other pool might be a bit unconvenient/difficult.