Never seemed to properly stake. I was getting .5 coins per day at best with a total 20000 coins. Wasn't worth the cpu usage. But if I shut down for a few days and load the wallet I would get around 10 coins. Weird.
Not weird...
I have covered this previously but will attempt a shortened version now.
With POSv the stake rate is based on the # of confirmations/blocks since an input was created. An input is the individual chunk of coin when you receive funds.
Based on testing by myself and redrhino it appears that POSv2 has a sweetspot somewhere between 2weeks and a month for the optimal stakerate per time invested.
The difficulty is a product of the # and size of inputs actively staking. We now have enough inputs (thanks to cartmanspc) that we are hitting the right amount of blocks/day but ideally we need enough inputs and a high enough difficulty that you can expect to stake once every couple of weeks, only then will the stake rate be what it should be.
Why don't we have enough inputs?
When the dev ported in POSv from reddcoin he left the split threshold at 2million coins.
Why does this matter?
Any wallets staking less than 2mill will be combined into 1 large input.
To help fix this, cartmanspc compiled and released a qt with the threshold changed to 5k. If you use that wallet your 20k will split into approximately 4 inputs. If you also take your wallet offline for 2+ weeks at a time you will see a much larger stake %.
I am considering rebuilding my "network push" wallet to attempt to get us enough inputs and diff that people aren't staking every 8 hours and instead are staking every week or 2.
We could also do ourselves some good by getting more people to actively stake POT, that would bring the difficulty up. All we really need is a 100 or so new wallets/addresses staking any amount of coin, the more the merrier of course to get us up and running. The way POSv2 is designed it creates a bit of a positive feedback loop, the more inputs, the higher the difficulty, the higher the stake rate and therefore more people might be willing to stake.