You'll take my 2cents and you'll like it!  

Yes, but even the authors of these coming gpu miners are estimating only 2-3x speeds so multiple cpu is still maybe going to be okay. However wait a little and see i guess.

To get this thread back to a warm fuzzy feeling, I will throw out a few small xpm donations, who wants some ?

Oh go on then...

If your HoboNickel wallet in not encrypted with a pass phrase then any balance older than 10 days can mint PoS blocks.

If your HoboNickel wallet is encrypted the padlock text will show 'wallet is encrypted and currently locked'. You can unlock your wallet for PoS minting in the qt client by going to Help > Debug Window > Console and typing the following:

> walletpassphrase yourpasspharse 99999999 true

'yourpassphrase' is your pass phrase and the 99999999 number is just a long time to leave the wallet unlocked.

If you did this correctly the padlock text hover over will show 'wallet is encrypted and currently unlocked', if you have an eligible PoS balance you should see some of you balance move to stake (probably within a few hours, if not its worth restarting the client every 4 hours or so, if your really keen to get your first PoS block). When the PoS block is fully confirmed your balance will be re-credited with the stake and the PoS.

Your eligible PoS balance (coin age) resets when it has been staked i.e. it will take another 10 days to generate more stake from the same balance.

If you don't want to stake all or any of your coins then you can add reservebalance=100 (example) to your hobonickels.conf i.e. if you have a 1000 balance eligible for PoS minting (more than 10 days coin age) if you set reservebalance=100 then only a maximum of 900 of your balance will be staked.

Some PoS coins require a .bat to unlock an encrypted wallet when using 'bitcoind'. Hope that helps.

P.S. If only I could of told my future self in 2009 that in 2013 I'd be mining BottleCaps and HoboNickles... lol  

CryptoHobo FTW !!!  

Any guide on how to generate stake coins?

UPDATE: After I exposed Phenixcoin in the official thread, it seems the developers are finally taking my advice and will be cutting the block reward too. Yesterday their stance on this was:
"Don't get me wrong i understand why everyone is pissed. But we did what we seen we needed to do and now its done."
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=266377.msg2852139#msg2852139

But after my big post they all of a sudden chagned their mind: "We understand your concerns, your voice is heard loud and clear.  Our upcoming release will reduce the reward by half."
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=211165.msg2856301#msg2856301

Surprisingly I'm getting a few PM's nominating Noirbits and wanting me to finish off Terracoin.

Who's the Noirbits dev?


~BCX~