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1  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][PHS][PoS] PhilosopherStone | Fast | PoW-PoS | Coin Control | MSGS 1.3.5 on: March 30, 2014, 10:01:48 AM
Nice one Dkdance, mine just staked too in less than 2 weeks so i'm really hapy with it ^^ (how do i know if it's an orphan block? how can i avoid producing them?)

to deuce95: actually i understand your confusion as i go trough it myself, pos is a really complicated process and being in for a few days does'nt allow you to get evry piece of the mechanism at first glance.
Since palmdetroit seems to be actively seeking better ways to improve the wallet and those "minting information" (don't know how to call it); i guess all you have to do is sit on your stones and wait for them to mint whatever the numbers say....

From what i got in all the pos coins forums, the stake adjusts themselves accordingly to the time youkeep your coins/stones so it doesn't matter if it stakes in 10-20-30 days because you will be rewarded accordingly.

like pow there is a "random" factor that comes play with the equations (but honestly we wouldn't be in alt-coins if a little uncertainty were to kill our hopes all around Cheesy )

Just sit on the coins and wait, in some times from now a new wallet with better interface will pop up and we'll all be smarter about this :p

good saturday all

Thanks for the response.  I appreciate the attempt at helping me.  It is just extremely frustrating that no one at all seems to know how this is supposed to work.  Even if it did work, how would I know if it is working correctly, since no one knows what is supposed to happen? 
Anyways, I guess I'll just leave the 200 stones in the wallet and check it in a month just to satisfy my own curiosity and sell all the ones I have bought that are still on cryptsy.  Only good news I guess is that I did end up making a nice profit at least!  I'm done with this coin though; there are hundreds of coins on the market no sense in wasting money\time\electricity on a coin when the people selling it can't even explain what it is or how it works.  Thanks all, for everyone that tried to explain.
2  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][PHS][PoS] PhilosopherStone | Fast | PoW-PoS | Coin Control | MSGS 1.3.5 on: March 30, 2014, 09:54:15 AM
What does stake have to do with it?  Yet another term included in the wallet that there is no documentation of.  5 days, 10 days, 20 days....which is it?  And why?  And when does stake go up?  I have twice as many stones as in your example, have waited twice as long, and have 0 stake still.  When will this number change?  What does it do when it does change?

"So at day 6 you have 600 mint-weight and can generate less than 1 stone (will show as 0).
at day 8 you should have 800 which means you can generate 1 stone."

Well that may be how it is supposed to work but that isn't how it does work.  I have twice as many stones as that, have waited twice as long, and have not minted anything.  And my mintweight has actually now gone down from 87 to 83 in the time it took to write this.  beloweight went down again also, to 155 despite not doing anything. 


Same, Do you unlock your wallet for minting ?

It is unlocked and says it is minting.  But nothing happens; the numbers go up and down seemingly at random and never actually do anything.
3  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][PHS][PoS] PhilosopherStone | Fast | PoW-PoS | Coin Control | MSGS 1.3.5 on: March 29, 2014, 09:16:24 AM
how do i know i am actually minting when wallet is unlocked? i have a positive mintweight but it says "you are trying to mint 0 stone" at the moment. and 0 in belowweight.

so what does mintweight actually refers to? how do i know i am minting?

Hi,

I actually have been thinking of better ways to communicate what these actually mean, for now I just wanted the basics to show, and they are more estimates then exact, but how it works:
Hope this helps in some way. If anyone has suggestions on how to make it easier, or want more numbers to show let me know.

BTW, for every 730 stones you have you will generate 1 stone per day over time.

This answer makes no sense and is not at all what I can see happening.  Looking at my wallet, I sent 200 coins to it to experiment with 10 days ago.  Stones, whatever we are calling these things.  They have been there for exactly 10 days now. 

"You get 100 stones sent to wallet.  Each day you have 100 below-weight added (can see number increasing over time)."

That isn't what is happening.  I started off with below weight of 700 (how it came up with that number I have no idea and no one else seems to either).  According to you this number should go up, what, 100 a day?  200 a day?  But it doesn't, the number goes DOWN.  It is now down to 157.  Actually, now 156 in the time it has taken me to type this.  This is the complete opposite of what you are saying should happen. 

"Around day 5 you have 500 below-weight and then it will move to mint-weight (you waited 5 days and can now mint)."

Again, this isn't what is happening.  I STARTED with mint-weight.  Nothing moved from below-weight to mint-weight.  Mint weight started out around 20ish THE DAY I GOT THE COINS and has gone up since.  But it doesn't go up in any orderly fashion, there doesn't seem to be any correlation to below weight, time, stones, nothing.  It is random as far as I can tell. 

"However it may take 10-15-20 days to actually mint depending on the network and the stake amount."

What does stake have to do with it?  Yet another term included in the wallet that there is no documentation of.  5 days, 10 days, 20 days....which is it?  And why?  And when does stake go up?  I have twice as many stones as in your example, have waited twice as long, and have 0 stake still.  When will this number change?  What does it do when it does change?

"So at day 6 you have 600 mint-weight and can generate less than 1 stone (will show as 0).
at day 8 you should have 800 which means you can generate 1 stone."

Well that may be how it is supposed to work but that isn't how it does work.  I have twice as many stones as that, have waited twice as long, and have not minted anything.  And my mintweight has actually now gone down from 87 to 83 in the time it took to write this.  beloweight went down again also, to 155 despite not doing anything. 

So yea. 

4  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][PHS][PoS] PhilosopherStone | Fast | PoW-PoS | Coin Control | MSGS 1.3.5 on: March 28, 2014, 05:35:08 AM
But what does mint weight and below weight actually mean?  For instance, I look at my wallet.  It has my balance of course, and it also has my stake.  My stake is, and has always been, 0.  This number never changes. 
It says minting, but minting 0 stones.  Mintweight number changes all the time, it goes up sometimes and other times goes down, without any other change in my wallet.  There is no indication why it goes up sometimes, and down others, or what it is. 
There is also belowweight.  Belowweight started out high, and has steadily gone down each day.  Again, no idea what it actually is. 

I want to like this coin, I really do.  But when I look at these terms and numbers in my wallet, and no one can tell me what they mean or what they do, it makes me want to just sell them and move on to one of the hundreds of other coins where the devs can at least tell me what the numbers mean.
5  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][PHS][PoS] PhilosopherStone | Fast | PoW-PoS | Coin Control | MSGS 1.3.5 on: March 26, 2014, 01:51:28 AM
Is there a blockchain explorer for this coin that actually works?

The explorer isnt working for me either. I had a transaction that never showed up on the receiving end and the explorer doesnt recognize the transaction id or the wallet address.

http://altexplorer.info/chains/PHS/block_crawler.php

This one works but you may have to try several times before it will stop giving an error page.

Thanks, that works great!
Second question, how exactly does "minting" work?  The coin's website is useless; all it says is " Typically 5-10 days later your stones will begin to attempt to generate more stones." but no mention of how this happens, how long it takes, what determines if it is 5 days, 10 days, or more before it starts.
6  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][PHS][PoS] PhilosopherStone | Fast | PoW-PoS | Coin Control | MSGS 1.3.5 on: March 24, 2014, 02:21:23 AM
Is there a blockchain explorer for this coin that actually works?
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