I hope this cleared up any confusion.
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Nope, this doesn't clear anything. How many COINS are staking? Plain and simple. And what the heck is "stake weight" of the Network?
I have to completely agree with barabbas on this one. The two questions I have, that I think the public should get clear answers to are:
1. How is staking weight calculated.
2. How is interest calculated from a compounding point of view. What I mean by this is the fact ScottAllyn I believe it was today was explaining how there is actually an advantage to having your wallet connected to the network 24/7 vs. connecting to the network once a month or once a year due to compounding interest. Well what is the calculation we can follow to determine what that payout would be? For example if I started the year with 100,000 coins and simply connected my wallet to the network 1 year later at an average interest rate of 2.25% I would clearly have: 100,225 coins. How many coins I would end up with though if I connected my wallet once a month vs. once a week vs. 24/7. Obviously this is all written in the code somewhere so there is a reference point to all of this. I'm not asking Socal this (no offense) or any other BTCtalk supporters - I think this should be answered by the devs themselves.
*Edit: the reason I ask question #2 is because at some point the math would determine when it becomes worth while to compound your interest 24/7 vs. yearly. It would be nice as an investor to know these equations as well as the numbers involved so I can make an educated decision on what to do. The followup answer I got today in the IRC channel was "well if you have a lot of coins it's probably worth while". Instead of trying to guess what "a lot of coins" is, I would rather know the exact number.
1. NetworkStakeWeight (known in the code as netstakeweight, nNetworkWeight and GetPoSKernelPS depending on context) is calculated using a weighted sum of combined total coins staking multiplied by the coin age factor. Coin age is something that allows coins to accrue interest over time, so if that particular coin in your wallet didn't stake for a long time, the value of its stake increases proportionally to the amount of time since last staked or sent. The visible network stake weight is a factor that is a combined score of both the amount of coins staking as well as the coin age. So if everyone has their coins staking, and on average it takes a week to stake coins, the network stake will be somewhere around 30 M (total supply of 26.8M in this example). If someone has never staked for 3 months and starts staking, they will inflate the value slightly as their coin age will effectively cause them to stake more than normal until their coin age resets. So that could increase the network stake to ~32M for example.
2. Interest is compounded continuously with consideration of the 8 hour "cooldown" period after a successful stake. Essentially, it's compounded at every ~8 hours or so, on average.
Not good enough. In several fronts Patrick.
First of all, your explanation of the BULLSHIT staking numbers, may or may not be academically correct who gives a shit. What counts here is the simple question: How many REAL coins are staking, whether they have been staking for months or just 2 seconds ago. Simple, isn't it.
Now, that shorted out (when it is, and when there's a real tracking site, device, whatever that keeps it up to date instead of the BULLSHIT numbers), how many coins are staking right now? Real coins, that is? How many were the max and min in the last 24 hours?
And Patrick, one more time: What was the purpose of that 200,000 VRC transferred to the exchange and whatever happened to them?
Not answering, just won't do.