I don't know if anyone kept the original client chain going or not, it could be stuck at 517,200 still. Even our hardfork client still works and could be made to start putting out rewards again (of course I would have over 50% of the coins lol.)

I will tell you one weird thing though, there is a guy out there who is still changing his coins over 5,000.00 WAS -> 5.00 WAS2 at a time; just everyday you'll see little bursts of them. No idea the logic behind that.

You can unlock the wallet just for staking so it won't let people send your coins.

Yep, it certainly is. He just asked how it works if your wallet isn't encrypted.

Yep, just like interest. When it is staking you will see transactions coming in that say they are Mined.

On the client, the new one should hopefully not freeze like that

If your wallet isn't encrypted all you have to do is receive coins in your client and leave it running. No passwords, mining programs like cgminer, etc. needed.

It's always suspicious when they post a whole new repo instead of forking so you can see the changes easily.

No, but if you delete your peers.dat before running the client it will load the seed nodes after 30-60 seconds (assuming there are no addnodes in your config.) If you run into problems you can also email me your wallet.dat and v2 WAS address and I can swap them for you.

Your blockchain could have gotten corrupted or something, if you shut down the client and delete everything from your data folder except wallet.dat (and wearesatoshi.conf if you have one) it will hopefully resync without any problems. There was one wallet update that added checkpoints but didn't increase the version number, but it's been a while ago now.

The same ones work 162.243.15.107, 107.170.104.208, and 192.99.37.224

Yes, you can get the installer or zip file at https://github.com/WeAreSatoshi/WeAreSatoshi-Binaries
You definitely need 0.8.99.9 for the coin swap to work.

Total coins is 40,000,000. PoS is 5% each month for the 1st 3 months.

With addnode's in your config it may not load the default seeds, try adding these instead:
addnode=162.243.15.107
addnode=192.99.37.224

If it still doesn't work I'd delete the blockchain and let it redownload it (ie. delete everything in your data directory except wallet.dat)

Make sure you are on version 0.8.99.9, you may also want to delete your peers.dat so it will find and connect to the seed nodes first.

Nope, but you can still participate in the coin swap: http://www.was.club/coinswap.html (make sure you've upgraded to 0.8.99.9 on the WAS v1 side.)

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Just FYI to any future developers or community discussion, as long as that style of patch to prevent staking is active PoW must always be kept active as a fallback. It's way too easy to attack and seize PoS on the whole network either purposely or accidentally through crosstalk if another coin uses the same pchMessageStart.

Yeah, in-client CPU mining will also be slower than the dedicated programs because they are optimized a lot better and can connect to stratum pools.

No, it wouldn't hardfork or anything.

If enough people want it I'll see if I can add it in, until then there are CPU miners available at http://wiki.darkcoin.eu/wiki/Mining_Darkcoin#Mining_Programs
With a CPU you'll probably get 300-500 k/hash.

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised. If it causes problems that the client can't automatically recover from I'll still be glad to try to salvage the wallet.dat for him.