Also, real quick... I was wondering if sending all the coins in my wallet to myself would help organize my staking?
I was worried that if I sent all my coins to one of my own addresses, then the coins age would reset and I'd would have to wait 30 days from the transaction
to stake again ( I know silly question
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Thanks!!
TEKcoin 2 DA MOOOOOOON!!!
Apparently, any time you send coins the age resets. Use coin control to aggregate the youngest. Be aware: Staking can sometimes produce an orphan block regardless of its size. Smaller blocks reduces the number of coins lost.
I am pretty sure orphans don't matter.
an orphan just costs you some time. I'm not sure if this is the intent, but I've gotten orphans a few times. It always stakes again in fairly short order.
As to aggregating your coins, yes, it resets the coin age. That's not ALL bad. I just did it yesterday, to put all my eggs in one basket as it were. If you're in long term, it might be a good idea to reset certain blocks to maintain a steady staggering. I'm not there yet, but my goal is to have ten blocks of 1000 each aggregated 2 days apart. Coin control feature in the QT wallet is your friend!
So coin control is turned off by default.
Now I see how some of these coins can maintain 50-100% payout...
Because most owners do something "wrong" and get stuck with way lower rates...
And "staking documentation" for NVC, TEK, HBN, PHS consists of rummaging thru long ANN threads.
No need to move the coin from Cryptsy...
Trading these things pretty much kills your payout...
So let's keep staking secrets a "black art" that's passed down from generation to generation.
I'm actually working on that, cuz about two months ago I would have agreed with your assessment. Since then I have become friendly with several of the developers of staking coins, and it's much simpler than that. They speak code better than they write documentation. I don't speak code very well, but I can translate
Yes, coin control is not turned on by default in the QT wallet. Or rather, the coin control INTERFACE is not on by default. Got to setting->options->display and activate it there. However, if I understand properly, the functions are already in place, and it automatically spends the lowest weight coins first. With coin control, you have absolute control over that.
Also, the wiki on hobonickels is very good. It's not as comprehensive as I would like, and it's references deviate from observed behaviour in some minor ways, but overall it's a good read and explains things very well.
Always keep in mind, we are on the frontier. Things often get done before they get documented.