Thank you for this release presstab, and thank you allejupa for your contributions as well!
Personally, I can't wait to get my hands the improved staking code. Something unique to High PoS coins, and particularly noticeable with HyperStake (as the network/holders are consistently competitive and difficulty keeps climbing), is that one needs to hold a lot of inputs and in large sizes, in order to have regular staking.
At the extreme of the scale (a massive amount of inputs in a variety of sizes), PoS starts to vaguely resemble PoW, in that the stake hashing process is not negligible use of resources anymore, as the computational intensity rises. Optimizing the stake hashing will effectively be a 'green' feature, as it reduces CPU usage.
I'll continue my pursuit for the ideal balance of
input size vs number of inputs, to enjoy the most cost effective staking performance.
With just a few exceptions along the way (the occasional lucky or unlucky input), my previous estimates appear to have been doing very well.
My average stake time for the past month has been at ~20 days, which is exactly what I was aiming for. I'd call this an "aggressive" stake profile, as I'm staking on average, at 2/3 of the maximum weight for the inputs. A more "conservative" profile would aim towards the ~30 days average (in other words, full weight), resulting in less reward being capped, but also longer time to stake (thus less compounding).
I had been suggesting a few weeks back, that we need to keep an eye on the average weight necessary to stake, and that the smaller inputs would eventually become "too lightweight to ever stake". I see that some people have dropped the age on their small inputs and pulled the trigger to combine them into larger inputs.
How's staking performance for everyone else?
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