Topic: BTCD is no more - page 275. (Read 1328503 times)

I don't think it's possible for us to tell who, or even if with any certainty.  But given the network weight it is sensible to assume that they must be.  It's an interesting situation.  In an ideal world the exchanges would stake your coins and then distribute the earnings proportionally back to you.

What exchanges are staking coins?

yep it will reset the coinage and you will have to wait 8 hours to stake. but you could also make a new wallet and send it there

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staking 24/7 will give you more, because of compound interest and additional txfees

I have heard you get a little more if you spread and it trickles in more often.  I think it was James who recommended that so that's what I do and it seems to work pretty well, beyond that maybe someone more technical can address that.  I don't know.  

How to maximize your staking income

The staking is a bit tricky. After you wait for the coins to start staking, you will notice that when you do get a "mining" tx coming in, then your power is reduced temporarily. I havent dug into all the details, but the following is a practical way to minimize the downtime.

You need to make N addresses, make sure to backup the wallet after you do this as this generates new private keys, so an old backup wont have them all.

Make sure you enable the "display coin control" option in preferences

Now comes the tricky part. Most of you probably have all your precious in a single address. This means that whenever you get a new block, you have to wait. So, we need to spread the balance evenly to the N addresses. To do this, you need to control the inputs, so do a send to your first new address and to do this you need to click the inputs button on the send dialog.

Select your big account as the input. Now when you send you will have to wait a block or two until your big address gets the change.

Keep doing this until all your addresses have approx the same number of coins.

You will have to wait a while before they kick into gear, but when they do, what happens is that only a fraction of your power goes offline when you get a block!

So if you split into 10 addresses, you lose 10% power for a bit. Not sure the full recovery time, but it seems to take a few hours, so the optimum number of addresses is based on how long on average you will get a block. Of course, if you have the time and patience to do this, you could just split it up into 100 accts and then only 1% goes into recovery phase at a time, but that is only worth it if you are a BTCD whale

James

Is there anything that can be done with exchanges staking coins.

Unfortunately, it isn't working yet. Upon attempting to run the application that appears in the Applications folder, I get nothing.

Upon attempting to run the QT file, I get this in a terminal window:

BBs-MacBook-Pro-6:~ Home$ /Applications/BitcoinDark-Qt.app/Contents/MacOS/BitcoinDark-Qt ; exit;
-bash: /Applications/BitcoinDark-Qt.app/Contents/MacOS/BitcoinDark-Qt: Operation not permitted
logout

[Process completed]

Unfortunately, it isn't working yet. Upon attempting to run the application that appears in the Applications folder, I get nothing.

Upon attempting to run the QT file, I get this in a terminal window:

BBs-MacBook-Pro-6:~ Home$ /Applications/BitcoinDark-Qt.app/Contents/MacOS/BitcoinDark-Qt ; exit;
-bash: /Applications/BitcoinDark-Qt.app/Contents/MacOS/BitcoinDark-Qt: Operation not permitted
logout

[Process completed]

If this works, I will kiss your soul with the souls of all Mac investors everywhere. I will also write a simple how-to to avoid these annoying conversations in the future.

bolded part is correct!
Do not move the QT file, just run it after you did the .conf file creating
of course you will need to manually make the BitcoinDark directory before you can make the .conf file in it

Thanks for trying to help. Just to be sure I write my "how-to" correctly, please entertain me far enough to get this working. Please make sure to answer each question, so that I may do a good job...

There is a BitcoinDark-QT file in the folder titled "MacOS" in the applications package. According to your above reply, you say "make the file in the path I posted earlier," which doesn't make any sense.

Do you mean to move (or copy) that QT file to that manually-made folder from the applications folder package? If move, please say move. If copy, please say copy. If that QT file should stay where it is in the application package (and not move or be copied at all), please say so.

I already manually made a BitcoinDark folder in the directory you first mentioned, and currently, nothing is in it.

With regard to the BitcoinDark.conf file, am I supposed to make a text file named "BitcoinDark.conf" with the exact conf code from page one of this thread copied and pasted into it and then save that text file in the folder I manually created in the path you first mentioned with the name "BitcoinDark.conf"?

Please let me know.

Thanks, James!

P.S. For what it's worth, I am a technical writer, so I might be of some future use.

is there any BitcoinDark-QT in the Applications folder?
if so, make the file in the path I posted earlier
you will have to manually make the BitcoinDark folder and a BitcoinDark.conf file containing the contents of the OP

BTCDdev is making it so this is not needed to do in new version, but for now it is manual process

Are you talking to the Windows users or to me, the Mac user?

To better explain what I am dealing with, after downloading the Mac wallet from page 1 of this thread, I drag it into the applications folder per the installer's instructions.

If I then launch the application, NOTHING HAPPENS. No folders are created at the directory you mentioned.

If I say "show package contents" by right clicking on the app in applications folder, I see:

Frameworks Folder
Info.plist file
Mac OS Folder
PkgInfo
Plugins Folder
Resources Folder

If I attempt to go to the folder you first mentioned, no folder such as that exists.

What do I need to do to get this working on a Mac?

Agreed on all counts.  I have never understood why .conf files are not auto generated with default random RPC passwords and other sensible default parameters.

Are you talking to the Windows users or to me, the Mac user?

To better explain what I am dealing with, after downloading the Mac wallet from page 1 of this thread, I drag it into the applications folder per the installer's instructions.

If I then launch the application, NOTHING HAPPENS. No folders are created at the directory you mentioned.

If I say "show package contents" by right clicking on the app in applications folder, I see:

Frameworks Folder
Info.plist file
Mac OS Folder
PkgInfo
Plugins Folder
Resources Folder

If I attempt to go to the folder you first mentioned, no folder such as that exists.

What do I need to do to get this working on a Mac?

We need to fix this in the next release, also the need to fiddle with obj directories for building
you need to put the .conf file from OP in the directory
I also think we should autocreate the .conf file with some reasonable defaults on install
I also think we should look for variants in the name, eg. Bitcoindark.conf, bitcoindark.conf if the BitcoinDark.conf is not found

We need to fix this in the next release, also the need to fiddle with obj directories for building
you need to put the .conf file from OP in the directory
I also think we should autocreate the .conf file with some reasonable defaults on install
I also think we should look for variants in the name, eg. Bitcoindark.conf, bitcoindark.conf if the BitcoinDark.conf is not found

I'm not a mac user, but on windows / *nix the folder is created when the wallet first starts, but the .conf file is NOT.  You need to create this yourself.

Is that folder and file not created automatically when you open the wallet on first use, as it is in Bitcoin's wallet, for example?

Do I need to create that folder myself? If so, what do I need to put into that folder after creating it?

"/Users/yourusername/Library/Application Support/BitcoinDark/BitcoinDark.conf"