https://i.imgur.com/GxAkmlv.jpg

Please take a look on which Blocks you missed the vote, if they were forked and how long it took before the next block appeared in the blockchain!
 
My missed votes mostly were forked Blocks or Blocks that took only 20 seconds until the next block were incoming, so miners don't wait till your vote was spread trough the network.

https://docs.decred.org/mining/proof-of-stake/


You can solo stake mine, which means you have to keep your wallet online and unlocked 24/7 or you can join one of the stakepools, which can vote for you.

Yeah stake mining is safe.

98% of your tickets gets a call for a vote during 28 days. If you have bad luck and your ticket won't get selected for a vote, the ticket will expire after 142 days and you will get the coins back. I did many votes so far, none of my tickets became expired.

[x-posting as on the Decred forum]

Stakepool Echo

A new Stakepool is calling....

Fee: 5%

http://pool.d3c.red

Dedicated discussion thread:

https://forum.decred.org/threads/pool-d3c-red-stakepool-echo.3757/

The new miner works flawless for me, too!

I am really happy to see progress in the development of decred. Developers went from alpha to beta status with their latest release of the decred software. There is an awesome progress and it`s a pleasure to see the RFP development starting so early, also talented and motivated people can help making it a success. I came to this forum to see discussions of the people about the decred coin for the first time today and i am wondering why a lot of people are so uneasy about the actual state of the software.

Decred is on mainnet, but the software is still in beta status. A lot of changes happening right now, developers have a huge output on a daily basis, simultaneously they pay community members for developing on the RFP programs, which is awesome and speed up the progress. There will be great features coming up!

First stakepools operating on mainnet, stakepool software currently gets his finish up, i feel stakepools are pretty close and will arrive very soon for the public.

Hybridizing PoW and PoS brings a whole new concept and is definitely a game changer! No more 51% problem, real governance possible trough votings by the stakeholders!

If anyone is telling that transactions are slow,  then you ain`t transfered some decreds yet my friend! Sadly a lot of the discussions in here are just about polo or bittrex, gui wallet and why the price is not the same as yesterday. A lot of big mouth talk, speculations and philosophize. Most sadly some people also try to manipulate peoples stance by lying and wrong predictions on purpose, just for their own advantages.

It`s a new concept working with 3 binarys only in Cli, so the software is not widespread. This is reflected by the demand on the exchanges of course. Most people just have to wait until the GUi is there and stuff is idiot proof. Right now it is for early adaptors! But if you feel decred is dead before it started, than my friend, you did not understand the innovation, motivation, uniqueness and concept behind decred or you just a bad lobbyist who is obvious like cutlet in aspic.