So....Is there someplace ya'll could recommend a bone-noob to go to learn what is being discussed here and how it applies to the several small rigs I am operating.
This is a load of fun and I really appreciate the deep participation of everybody involved.
I don't really understand the saltiness of some folk at times, but I seem to encounter salty people no matter where I go in life, so i guess there just out there in over abundance..
Im particularly confused about 'staking' and what I need to be doing, when this is implemented, to ensure I am maximizing my potential.
Thanks for everything you're doing even if I don't understand at least half of it!!!
JigSaw
I'd recommend joining Slack (biblepay.slack.com) for real time discussions. There is usually someone that can be found to chat with about BBP.
Understand, this is a discussion about a future feature that is being developed and yet to be tested. So you have to look "big picture" on this as specifics on how it will affect you are going to be hard to find until a lot of testing is done and it's close to deployed. But in simple terms, we'll use some imaginary numbers. Lets say you and I have identical computers that each have a 1/10,000 chance of finding the next block. If you've got 10K BBP that you got 10 days ago, and you want to "stake" it, you get 100K mining points. Let's say I've got 5K BBP that I've had for 20 days and I want to "stake" all of it as well, so I get 100K mining points. So the system recognizes our 100K mining points as an indicator of a supporters of the coin, and makes mining the next block easier, and we both end up having a 1/8,000 chance of finding the next block, whereas a third party with an identical computer but no mining points ends up dropping to a 1/14,000 chance of finding the next block. It's not entirely clear if by staking your coins will be "reset" in age automatically, only reset in age if they find a block or never reset in age. It seems they will only be reset in age if successful, based on the statement "When one single PC of the 1000 solves one block, the coins used from the shared wallet that were in-stake are now spent and have zero coin age."
The statement "Meaning that a botnet with 1000PCs and a 100K bbp balance is very close in equality to a single user with ONE PC and a 100K bbp balance." on the surface seems to be untrue. But, in practice it will be true in my opinion. On the surface, 1000 machines hashing with a 90% bonus will win a lot more than one machine with a 90% bonus. But in practice since the motivation of a botnet is immediate profit, they're unlikely to retain coins very long, they'll never build up a coin age modifier like a normal user will. If they started to behave like a normal user and hold coins long term, then they would de facto be like a "normal" user that runs a lot of VPS.