I just got a PM from the DEV. Yea!
It's official you DO NOT need to keep your wallet open to earn stake rewards. But, as was just said, if no one runs their wallets then there are no transactions. But, I assume the dev will get several nodes going all the time to ensure that doesn't happen. It wouldn't be good.
Just to be clear (see red) There are POS coins/wallets that, if you do not open them in a certain amount of time the rewards expire. OH YES! This is why some POS devs give minimum (days/hours to age) and "maximum" (days/hours to lose reward) days to mine. I am not sure if these numbers were ever posted by the DEV..anybody? MINIMUM, yes (24 hrs)..I'm talking about maximum.
Also, he is talking about the aging process. The coins to not go into your balance until you open it. Clear? That is why I would like to know what the MAX days are for our POS system. DEV?
The easiest solution? Get yourself a good anti-virus and mal-ware program, leave your wallet open most of the time and forget about it
And, if you want to be extra careful, an anti-keylog-malware suite. I use Perfect Guard.To be honest, I almost got into buying Bitcoin in 2011 but the stories of keylogger malware scared me away. My loss, on the face of it...
Bummer.... but yes forgot about that. Excellent advice. Personally, I'm waiting for one of these new giveaway coins to have a wallet stealer/keylogger included...It's just a matter of time. You newbs better let me hold your coins for yah just to be safe
My stinkin win7 got another frikkin manditory M$loth update, forced a reboot, had to shut down all my wallets, close my miners, wait for reboot to complete. Went ahead and gave my miners a cooling off by turning off 12V power for 5 minutes, then fired em back up - didn't re-power reset the USB hubs and ports cause there's no need to.
Ran the bat. All went back online eeeezzzzeeeee peeezzzeee! Hashin away real nice and efficient like.
That is when my ShareCoin wallet problem happened.
I had been running it 24/7 non-stop for weeks prior to this.
So do I understand that I've been denied credit for and use of the balance of my already 'validated' shares?
I need to find out what to do about it and make sure the mined coins go in to my credit and are accessible and useable by me and me only.
Not sure if I should turn off automatic 'interruption of important shit!' updates. ;(
Alas, probably not a good idea. I presume that a redundant backup PC that updates at a different time than the main machine so one of them is always running the miners no matter what.
Probably cheaper to finally just get and learn how to use a Raspi setup.
Oh boy, a whole new game! Actually, just another tool
toy
So what do I do about my wallet situation so this problem is completely handled!?