It's normal to have only 8 connexions as the UPnP box in your wallet must be unchecked for enhanced security.

Good news in the turmoil. As the price of BTC goes down it's actually settling 808 in a better position. There is more advantages to have 808 at 3 sats with a 6.5K BTC rather than at 1 sat with a 20K BTC. Going to 2 sats from 1 is way harder than to 6 from 3 with roughly the same market cap in both cases. Then 808 has more room to grow (more increments) a way better spread and less chances to be kicked out of the BTC pair. Keep an eye on 808 when the market recovers (remember it was excluded from the DEC/JAN pump).

Your theorical maths are right facts show otherwise.
After 24 days from January 11th to this day the SHND supply went from 12T to 16.11T. At a theorical 100% rate it should be 21.6T So it's only a 43% staking percentage. The hardfork isn't not much needed then.
This percentage will continue to decrease overtime due to the nature of the actual limitation of the coin. So the hardfork is even less needed.

For the guys who are asking questions about their coins in the QT wallet here is the solution. Just don't download the new version and run on the old one the hard fork will fail and you will be able to stake your coins.
One doesn't apply a hardfork on a 30 days staking coin within 15 days or so. As shown above most nodes won't update the code. The hardfork isn't mandatory at all if noone updates it.

The hard fork isn't needed.
As I said if Bumba wants to hard fork he should ask CE to create (and pay for it) a new coin and issue it for free at 1:1 conversion rate. Like it was the case for ETC/ETH or the many forks on BITCOIN.
This is the only solution that doesn't need consensus. Otherwise it's a Hijack attempt regarding the total population using this coin (wich many are not even aware of Bumba).

You are not in crypto to be forced by a minority to tell you what you are supposed to do. Act accordingly.

Bumba is still very welcome to be the dev for SHND.

The support is big at 1-2 sats and there is almost nothing left at 3 sats on the asks, quite impressing. It will take longer to go back on its feets as it was exluded from the December events but the market and the awarness of the coin are growing (It also means it has way more potential upward that other coins that went up already so the path could be not so long). If it showcases a +100% today with a substancial amount of BTC in the bids it will gain even more recognition. Welcome back 808 !

Ps: Final .75 btc at 3 sats gone as I wrote this message.

You saw my view on it on the post above right before I was aware about the relisting on topia but as you trade with your money please only draw your own conclusion.

Wow great news ! So they figured it out be themselves wp Cryptopia.

What happened to 808 is ridiculous. I think it's the sole coin in the cryptoverse that suffered BOTH from the slowdown in Sep-Oct-Nov then the pump in Dec while having everything else in place.
It was delisted from the BTC pair because it was sub 1 sat for a short period then it was also delisted from LTC and DOGE markets on topia because of the big pump of cryptos that came right after...

It's still one of the bests if not the best High stake coin up to date, everything is well tweaked. If it was still traded on topia against BTC it will be back at 20 sats a coin now. If it was also on CE against BTC and DOGE it would be a 50 sats coin...

I'll also try to do something regarding the exchanges. CE is asking for too much but it can be figured out. Trade Satoshi is an interesting exchange that deserves more attention too.
Good news is there is only growth from here, it can really be a top gainer in 2018 once everyone realize why it was this low.

He "took over" after the surge in price.

From January 11th to today January 23th (12 days) SHND grew by 2.3 trillion coin from 12 trillion to 14.3. A 100% growth rate would be 16.8 trillion coin or +4.8 T for 12 days. Here it is only a 48% monthly growth rate. Did you look at this while sorting new numbers out of thin air ?

SHND is not doubling its supply every month anymore.

a 50% staking rate is sustainable for way longer than 100% then it delays the need of hard fork. Hard forking is not a light matter at all and can damage the market (ie the value of the coin).

Thanks to Bumba the borking wallet problem with the 2b issue is partialy fixed even if it's not super elegant and requires some action on user's end it is working. Wheareas a hard fork may or may not succeed puting the value of the coin into jeopardy. Once again if it's not broken do not fix it.

Also a fair vote would have the option: Do not touch the reward percentage.

Can you please explain how do you perform supply reduction then (unless it's a swap that can or can't succeed) ?

First page of this topic OP's post:

"PoS - min stake age - 30 days
PoS - Reward 100%"

It's the specs of this coin, what is that you don't understand ?

I don't know what the history of PAC is but what I say still stand. At some point they just reached consensus "thanks" to either super low market cap or/and a fatal flaw in the code wich required a hardfork. Wich is neither the case for SHND. The devs on PAC are not the "owners" of the coin the owners are the people holding the coin, the nodes and the consensus on the market. A dev can only offer "enhancement" in the code and see if the community follows him. It's how open source works too.

Bumba was the unofficial dev for SHND for a long time thanks to him. But the title of this thread is a bit misleading it was created after the big surge in price to a 40M+$ market cap with a worldwide community (or users). So you can't claim a community take over on a very alive coin with multiple languages users on BTCtalk just like this (not anymore). You don't revive an alive coin.

Here SHND is working well with activity on the market. So noone will burn the coin swap it or "update" to a newer version if they are satisfied with the current one. You can't force consensus in a distribued ledger system. Otherwise it's not really you know... decentralized.
If you have a different vision you do as BTCCash did: snapshot and then issue the new coin for free and let the market decides the faith of both  coins (or way more now in BTC's case).
TLDR: if SHND is working well how can you force nodes to change version (requiring HF) if they don't want ? Answer: you can't. See BTC in 2017.

Let me be clear.

There will never be any coin burn on this coin.
There will never be any coin swap on this coin.

The original dev is gone but the coin is alive, it's in the same state as Bitcoin.
You won't reach any consensus on burning coin and the same goes for swap unless the blockchain is dead. It's not the case here. That's what decentralization is about. Bumba is  a competent dev but the coin is far beyond him or the original dev. As said above 70% of nodes are japanese.
As long as a minimal amount of nodes agrees to run on whatever version it will go as it is.

The only solution is a hard fork issuing the new coins for free and at prorata Like BTC or NXT are doing also called a snapshot. That's how it works for a decentralized blockchain. It will be called called SHND2 or + or whatever but Stronghands "vanilla" will continue to work as long as the blockchain is alive. That's the only way.

Is everyone only from ERC20 tokens investing ?
There is no ICO no IPO and No premine on SHND so you can't burn any supply.
If you want a lower supply and less staking there is planty of other coins waiting. If SHND uniqueness is gone so is its value.
The advantage of this coin is the big supply wich matches expectation of investors through an exploding 2018 DOGE market. If you try to bring it back BTC sats level it will lose all its edge. There is a reason why it went up and you can't get it apparently.

Nice wrap up.

Coin burn is impossible it's not erc20 or a genesis block coin with  most supply still owned by a dev.
hard fork is schism material and will make the coin lose momentum. What japaneses or brazilians want ? It's not about your telegram group only.
The supply wasn't 6T one month ago and won't be 24T in one month some coins are lost and yes staking is the name of the game.
Don't fuck up with proposals that you don't foresee the aftermaths.
Let's see how much coins there is in a one month.
If it's not broken don't try to fix it. See what is ongoing for BTC about 1 line of code change for more than 3 years...

Just fix the 2B transaction cap for now and it will be the best start (should be discussed if it needs hard fork too).

Don't modify POS% let it at 100%. Hi POS hi supply were a problem when you had the 1 sat treshold on BTC market but it's not 2017 anymore and SHND is below it for quite some time already. DOGE markets are now healthy so there is no problem to let it as it is. It wille ven erase its uniqueness think about it. Easterners like Japanese especially likes big supply.

The 2B cap still need a solution.

It was the last coin added on Cryptsy among two others maybe 2 weeks before its fall. Yet it survived, StrongHands indeed.

Then maybe it will be more honest to mention that your friend has way less than 1B to not be able to stake under 60 days.

Everything is normal, you are not guaranteed to stake on day 30. If possible let the wallet open for staking 24/7.

Yes you are likely to wait few more days. You are still gaining a stake every day about 3%/day after 30 days.