Hi. Yes that's the guide i followed. I'm pretty sure I did but when I just tried it again the wallet 'Lock' icon became Yellow whereas previously it was Green. I will let it run and see how this goes. Thanks for the help.

Hi, I've bought some PART and set up cold staking on a Raspberry Pi as per the guide. I know that it was stated that the syncing process could take weeks but after about 5 days the cold staking progress is 0%. Is this expected behaviour? Would appreciate any help. Thanks

Cold Staking Activation is a process which measures the # of your outputs which have converted to the new cold staking smart contract.
A 99.97% activation implies that 99.97% of your coins are "NOW" cold staking with 0.03% still waiting to convert (so make sure that staking node is online!!).

For argument sake, lets say you had 1000 PART ... so we know that 999.7 PART are Cold Staking and 0.3 PART are not.
The chances of your 0.3 PART of staking in the next few years is next to none (being realistic).

You therefore essentially have a few options.

1. Close your real wallet and forget about the 0.3 PART cold staking
2. Wait for the next GUI release which will give you the option to FORCE that 0.3 PART to convert.
3. If you are crypto tech savvy pop into our Riot channel and I am more than happy to explain to you how you can do this WITHOUT waiting for the new GUI Wallet.

I hope that clarifies matters.

EDIT : Please remember that the % Cold Staking Activation shown in the wallet is of coins currently Cold Staking.  100% = all of your coins are cold staking; 50% = half of your coins are cold staking.

I don't know this @bumbacoin guy.
Why did he have the privilege to hold this 70 million COMM?
I should do something with this fund.

i've replied and offered to take the cryptsy wallet.
if i receive it i will let everyone know what's in it.


i havent had a wallet going for quite a while.
does anyone have any nodes?

not to worry, seem like plenty here
http://crypto-trade.net/nodestat


currently am syncing a new wallet with a few connections, all on height 987465,
from memory i have some COMM so might be able to move the chain along again

heh is comm worth reviving ??

i gots de Cryptsy wallet (thanks MicroGuy )

on a cursory inspection it has ~70million coins
and putting staking=0 in yr conf doesnt work

i'm just going to do a full sync from scratch for competleness


.
only current exchange crypto-trade is showing their Comm wallet as connected, but not syncing,
if you want comm to be tradeable, pls feel free to msg them with a support request

a full sync leads to difficulties :p
ie a non-responding wallet,

and i haven't had the leisure to address the issue usefully as yet.
so nothing further to report yet.

That is a good gesture.
If someone can organize a foundation, the community will be willing to donate.

Ok let me know if that worked or not. I'm curious myself.

As for 256bit addresses, you can create them with the latest version of particl-qt!

You could open Particl-qt and use coin control to see which output has yet to transfer to a 256bit address, and then manually do it by sending to a new 256bit address (I think even regular addresses would do the trick, not 100% sure though).

EDIT: Be sure your qt is the last version though!

I thinks your suggestion is much better.
Among this 70 million there should be some belonging to me.
I lost all my asset in Cryptsy.

anyone else's wallet goes into long periods of "not responding" and then eventually starts working again? my wallet seems to do this where it will not respond for a minute or two, respond briefly and then back to not responding...seems like something to do with network possibly since when i disconnect the internet, it starts to respond much better.

anyone got link to wallet

cheers

Here you go:

MD5 - https://www.dropbox.com/s/zi0onhbazsmfbed/bootstrap.md5?dl=0
bootstrap.dat - https://www.dropbox.com/s/zatr2lykdrxszfb/bootstrap.zip?dl=0

let me know if you have any problems with it...this is my first time creating a bootstrap.

in case you don't have it, here's the most recent version of the COMM Qt wallet that supports staking:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8c3osai0c7j7m54/CommunityCoin-qt.md5?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5f5g9731p7tip6a/CommunityCoin-qt.zip?dl=0

seems like my wallet thinks I'm trying to double-spend. Anyone know how to fix the wallet to validate the transactions that are only contained in the blockchain at present? I've tried -reindex and -rescan but they don't seem to have helped (not sure if these commands even work for COMM).

i'm currently connected to 3 peers

What is the total node up right now? This project looks comfy with such a long trace back to 2014 so I think maybe I could give it a try.

UNO will fork within about 20 hours to increase mining rewards.

Please update your Unobtanium QT wallet.  http://unobtanium.uno

Users of UNO Electrum or Coinomi don't need to do anything. 

Yes, you need to keep your wallet unlocked for staking until it shows 100%, at which point you can let your staking node do the work. You can also make that process instantaneous by sending all your coins back to you. Just generate a new address (or use one that you already have) and send your coin to yourself, it should insta 100%. You will however lose a bit of staking efficiency for a while since that will mess with the outputs.

On another note, since setting up cold staking, I've yet to receive any stakes ( 5 days now). Prior to cold staking, I was getting stake every day or two. The cold staking percentage is still showing 0% in my wallet. partyman status on my staking node says "particld staking currently - NO - low_balance"
Also, my "particld staking weight" on my staking node shows as 0/427995286249408 so it almost seems as thought the cold staking node is not talking to my local Particl Wallet. I followed the cold staking guide posted by Paul and didn't get any errors during the setup process...

I don't need to "unlock for staking" on my local Particl Wallet for the cold staking to activate do I? That would defeat the purpose of cold staking feature...

I unlocked my Particl Wallet for staking and now received a stake, but the cold staking % is still 0%. I don't think I am doing this correctly.