Is Cold Staking a 'must have feature' moving forward for all PoS?

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Quote from: dannon on April 10, 2017, 07:40:03 AM

No. You should not be able to earn coins without contributing to he network. In pow, miners earn fees and block rewards. In POS, staking nodes earn fees and % of their coin. Rewarding a wallet for existing is pointless. If everyone has 1% more coin tomorrow, no one is better off than they were today.

Well not everyone will be staking. But through staking, you will be in essence freezing the supply of tokens. If demand remains constant, then it increases the equilibrium price, that would actually make everyone better off. Especially those staking and receiving rewards for it. Once more people catch on to this idea, we'll definitely see more POS coins doing this.

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Quote from: aakashsangwan on July 10, 2017, 01:07:21 PM

Quote from: bathrobehero on March 10, 2017, 08:50:28 AM

It's a nice feature but its name is confusing. Cold storage is offline storage so I thought cold staking would mean offline staking. But that would be dumb and you obviously need (one of) the wallets to be online.

It's closer to multisig but for staking, not for transactions. Not sure what it should be called though.

After reading the title i also thought that it would be like that the coins will be staked even with the wallet being offline and I was dreaming me. me making coins with my POS wallets offline.
But now I see what is the concept behind this.

I guess DNotes 2.0 is giving a new definition to cold staking. You can keep your DNotes in a secure offline wallet, and have that wallet stake to an online wallet (that can have a zero balance). You could then transfer the staked coins to your offline wallet if you wish.

Part of the September 2017 massive upgrade to DNotes:

"Cold Staking
Users can defer privileges to stake coins from one wallet to another. So a wallet with no coins in it can be awarded the privileges to stake on behalf of an offline wallet containing many coins. This means coins are never exposed to security risks connected to the internet, and can still earn the stake reward. DNotesVault accounts will be cold-staking capable to allow DNotes holders to both run a node to earn the staking reward, and earn the CRISP savings reward - all the while having their coins held securely in cold storage."

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Quote from: bathrobehero on March 10, 2017, 08:50:28 AM

It's a nice feature but its name is confusing. Cold storage is offline storage so I thought cold staking would mean offline staking. But that would be dumb and you obviously need (one of) the wallets to be online.

It's closer to multisig but for staking, not for transactions. Not sure what it should be called though.

After reading the title i also thought that it would be like that the coins will be staked even with the wallet being offline and I was dreaming me. me making coins with my POS wallets offline.
But now I see what is the concept behind this.

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DNotes 2.0 will feature cold staking when the update is released in September.

Core updates:

Proof of Stake
Will move power of the network away from miners, and into the hands of currency users / holders who share the network's best interests. Effectively pays out an interest (~2%) for running a node on the network. Paying out the block reward to holders creates a benefit to holding the currency by means of earning 'interest' from the currency, which combined with a reduced block reward (more than half) will likely mean many fewer DNotes on the sell side at exchanges, and what is there will likely dry up over time.

Non-Staking savings accounts / CRISP 2.0
All deposits held at our secure DNotesVault will earn a further ~2% on all deposits held for 30 days or more, which encourages savings - the foundation of any healthy economy. Both the staking reward, and the CRISP reward can be earned at the same time for a total of ~4%.

Cold Staking
Users can defer privileges to stake coins from one wallet to another. So a wallet with no coins in it can be awarded the privileges to stake on behalf of an offline wallet containing many coins. This means coins are never exposed to security risks connected to the internet, and can still earn the stake reward. DNotesVault accounts will be cold-staking capable to allow DNotes holders to both run a node to earn the staking reward, and earn the CRISP savings reward - all the while having their coins held securely in cold storage.

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No. You should not be able to earn coins without contributing to he network. In pow, miners earn fees and block rewards. In POS, staking nodes earn fees and % of their coin. Rewarding a wallet for existing is pointless. If everyone has 1% more coin tomorrow, no one is better off than they were today.

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Quote from: pugman on March 10, 2017, 03:32:32 PM

would make it cryptolocker virus proof I think! Which is a plus

No it doesn't it makes it twice as vulnerable.

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I think it is a necessary feature.

There are a lot if people that don't want to fool with running a node 24/7, and the insecurity that comes with that.

Sure, it leads to centralization of staking, but I think security is more important. The chain is better off with having the extra coins staked in a more centralized manner than having them not staked at all.

It will also help towards creating truely deflationary cryptocurrencies, which I have been a big proponent of lately. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/how-to-maintain-consensus-without-the-use-of-inflation-1858954

Inflation creates massive downward pressure on the free market, negatively effecting the value of cryptocurrencies. Most people buy cryptocurrencies as an investment, so I think eliminating this inflation is ideal.

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Thanks your all your replies

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Quote from: BTCLovingDude on March 14, 2017, 06:08:43 AM

i am no expert in this matter but isn't "staking" and the reward you get from it because of running the wallet and actually contributing to the network!

in any case i think this is a "must not" have because that means the rich get richer and the poor get negligible amounts.
also on top of that when you give away "free coins" which in this case are free coins for just hodling, you are increasing the supply and consequently the sell pressure on the market and crashing the price. and in the end it is as if you didn't give any reward at all.

thats how the world works! if u have more in your bank account you get more more interest. If i had more i would expect more! If i held #1 wallet i'd be pissed off if i was earning the same as #3000 wallet!

Also you are wrong - you still need to be connected to the blockchain but can use 2 machines to do it. At least thats how i understand it from reading up on it

mind blowing they have implemented this really! Congrats to the team.

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i am no expert in this matter but isn't "staking" and the reward you get from it because of running the wallet and actually contributing to the network!

in any case i think this is a "must not" have because that means the rich get richer and the poor get negligible amounts.
also on top of that when you give away "free coins" which in this case are free coins for just hodling, you are increasing the supply and consequently the sell pressure on the market and crashing the price. and in the end it is as if you didn't give any reward at all.

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Quote from: cryptohunter on March 13, 2017, 06:10:27 PM

So exchanges can stake the coins safely then? No reason for them not to give them to us now when coins are stored there:)

They ought to be able to. However, I don't think they'd want to part with all of it back to the owners Cheesy

Maybe they could provide different levels of incentives (like commission free trading) if you support them with 'xyz' coin and with 'x' amount of coins you reach tier level '#' and receive '>insert benefit<'.

But as someone pointed out we'd have to worry about the potential for exchange mining pools to essentially centralize the mining.

But I think the solution there is in the product. If a coin can provide stability and a legitimate marketplace for goods and services, then the demand for it to actually be used by people transacting peer to peer, then it would greatly diminish the speculators stronghold on 98% of all the coins in existence. Crypto is still in it's infancy. It will stay that way until we can provide the necessary tools to take out the middlemen once and for all and complete Satoshi's dream. I think once that happens the fear of centralized mining pools controlling a coin supply will no longer be an issue as traders will also be competing against 'actual users' on the exchanges.

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So exchanges can stake the coins safely then? No reason for them not to give them to us now when coins are stored there:)

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Quote from: topesis on March 13, 2017, 07:48:08 AM

Quote from: bathrobehero on March 10, 2017, 08:50:28 AM

It's a nice feature but its name is confusing. Cold storage is offline storage so I thought cold staking would mean offline staking. But that would be dumb and you obviously need (one of) the wallets to be online.

It's closer to multisig but for staking, not for transactions. Not sure what it should be called though.

I totally agree with you that the name is somehow misleading, I will like to see this idea work out right, I think this can be implemented soon

It is already implemented in the new release for BitBay. Testing has been going on for a while, and it will have official release march 22nd

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Quote from: bathrobehero on March 10, 2017, 08:50:28 AM

It's a nice feature but its name is confusing. Cold storage is offline storage so I thought cold staking would mean offline staking. But that would be dumb and you obviously need (one of) the wallets to be online.

It's closer to multisig but for staking, not for transactions. Not sure what it should be called though.

I totally agree with you that the name is somehow misleading, I will like to see this idea work out right, I think this can be implemented soon

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Stake trough your heart. Lets see how cold you are.. btw i love posw..

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Huh?

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dafuq is this nonsense, it sounds like you're trying to kill vampire...

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Duel locker or Multi locker would be more appropriate I think

This is a great feature! All coins should be adopting this as a priority!
Surprised others are not adopting it. Or are Bitbay & Decred devs just more proactive

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