Alternatively someone can set one up and you just do the rental payment.  

You can do the following:

1. Run a wallet daemon on your PC
2. Rent an online VPS.

To run a VPS:
1. Go to an online service provider like vultr.com (they accept Bitcoin as payment)
2. Create a Linux server
3. Install the dependencies
4. Compile the code
5. Open the daemon port on your firewall
6. Run the daemon

Ill attempt a bit later as it will take some time.

What you have calculated is coin supply or money supply not coinage. Coinage is the time that coins are in your wallet. Coin/money supply is the total number of coins in circulation at a given time.

Now that I understand you asking what is the total money supply it is still not possible to calculate with any accuracy.  Since POS is percentage based you have to make assumptions how many coins will be staked. it is easy to calculate POW only or POS based on fixed rewards. If 1 coin is staked all the time the impact on total money supply will be immaterial. If all coins in circulation are staked all the time, then the impact on money supply will be material. This is amplified by the 1000% POS rates. The more coins are staked at those percentages the higher the moneysupply will become. It is just not possible to calculate with any accuracy. You could calculate the maximum extremes to all sides and know the answer is somewhere inbetween. Then you can calculate probabilities of outcomes inbetween and get to an answer with some % of confidence.

Posex is complicated in that POW block time is 30s and POS 10s. Currently, the block explorer indicates 99% of blocks coming from POW and 1% from POS. This can be attributed to people holding back and gaining network weight. Once the high POS starts, people will open the POS and then there should be 10s and 30s blocks from POS and POW mixed. This complicates the calculation to determine how long it will take to reach block 200k. You can calculate that, assuming this rate is maintained, by drawing a timeline and plotting the POW and POS blocks and determining the time when block 200k will be reached or alternatively work out a fancy formula. If all blocks are POW, 200k will be reached in 69 days starting from scratch. With POS added it will be less.

I dont understand your question. Here is a quote out of the code:

It is not possible to determine it because coinage is the time coins have been in an address in your wallet. If you do some assumptions though, that your coins are kept in your wallet and never moved, then by the time block 200k comes, technically it should be max coinage that is relevant which is 5 days.

1st question:
If your wallet is not encrypted, then you do not have to do anything because it is open already and will stake automatically. If your wallet is encrypted, then you need to unlock your wallet. You can just unlock it if you want to like if it was not encrypted as the net effect will be the same, or you can unlock it for staking only which only enables the staking component. The unlock for staking only can be done in 2 ways, first is to tick the unlock for staking only checkbox and second you can go into the debug console and type "walletpassphrase <yourwalletpassword> 99999999 true".

2nd question:
Any amount can stake if 2 conditions are met. The only impact is the time it will take to stake and if the reward is percentage based, the size of the rewards. Firstly you need to have the coins in your wallet for the minimum stake age which in this case is 1.5 hours, after which your coins becomes eligible for staking. Secondly your coins have to reach at least 1 coinage day. If you have a fraction of a coin it will take a couple of days before you will get 1 coinage day and only then your coins will become mature. This is why some people notice that although their coins have passed the minimum stake age they still do not show as matured. If someone has 100000 coins of a certain coin as an example, he will have 1 coinage day very quickly, but someone with 0.5 coins will take 2 days.

Once your coins are in your wallet (actually once broadcast on the network) they begin to generate network weight at that address which is a combination of the number of coins in your wallet and the time they have been in your wallet (coinage). Once this becomes "heavy" enough your coins will generate a stake. Someone with a larger amount of coins will reach that point quicker than someone with a small number of coins.

Lastly, the coins in your wallet are stored in blocks and each block of coins will stake on its own. If you have 2 blocks of lets say 10 coins each, when the time comes they will stake separately. This is where coin control enters - if you go to options and display, you can select to show coin control. If you then click on "send" you have the option to select inputs which will display the input blocks your wallet balance consist of. Here you can manage your input block sizes for the optimal block size to stake. There are generally 2 methods that stake rewards are generated each with its own subsections like HPOS, DPOS etc. - firstly there is fixed size per stake and secondly percentage based (like in the case of posex). If a coin gives fixed size rewards, your input blocks can be more smaller ones because when they stake you get the same rewards in anyways. If a coin gives percentage based, then you must have very small number of large block sizes, in fact, one block of all your coins will be ideal. To change your block size, you go into coin control and select all your little blocks and select OK. Then copy the total coin amount less fees and paste into the amount field. Paste your wallet receiving address in the to field and send. You will then have a large input block consisting of all the small blocks you selected.

If you want to apply this to posex, then you have to look at the max stake age and method of POS rewards. The max age is 5 days, so coins older than 5 days don't give you an advantage. Since the posex POS rewards is percentage based, put all your input blocks into one large block. Do this at least 5 days before your target POS block number you are aiming for, so you have to work it out based on the average block time. Also remember to not send coins from your prepared input block so that you do not move those coins to a change address. When you send coins, select coins from a smaller block through coin control, from blocks you might keep on the side for non-staking purposes. Once you hit a reward, wait for the coins to confirm and then combine them again into a big block. This is because once you hit a stake the wallet combines the coins in the block that staked with the POS reward and the total is split into 2 with a result of 2 block of the same size. You can perhaps leave this as two blocks but not leave it for a more than a second stake because then they get out of sync and more difficult to control. Ideally combine after the first stake.

Nothing wrong with it, but block explorer is the no1 priority.

1.5 hours to be eligible. Then when you get to 1 day coin age your coins will mature.

The Windows compiles have to be tweaked though by the dev as they crash as soon as you try to do something like staking or solo mining. If you open the Windows wallet for the first time, it works ok. When you do either POS or POW to the wallet it crashes and then remembers that. Subsequent opens even after a restart from that point on makes it to keep crashing. Best advice until the issue is sorted is to compile on Linux and run it there as that works fine, mine to a pool and just use the Windows wallet for normal stuff like checking balance, send coins and other non POS/POW activities. I think it is just a matter of something in the cross-compile that went awry.

You have to gain weight first. You are just eligible for staking after 1.5 hours and will not immediately stake. You will stake eventually.

It depends on the block that Yobit rejoins. If Yobit resyncs from scratch and joins at the slightly advanced block number from the dev it might be that your coins are still on the exchange and then Yobit needs to do some reconciliations on their internal systems and cancel the withdrawals. If the blocks just carry on then it could be that the withdrawals will just be broadcast as soon as Yobit can see the peers again. I doubt that the withdrawals during the stuck period will have been broadcast and probably did not gain any weight in your wallet.

Maybe the dev for this coin will post at the right time when ready. With BCT it goes like this when a dev posts he is fudded about what he posts and he is fudded for not posting enough. A dev that never or very seldom post can only be fudded about not posting regularly so 50% less fud. Less is more imo.

As long as the dev logs on like has been quoted here it is probably still ok. If the dev completely disappeared then it would be a serious problem.

This post is still relevant. Let me know if you have issues.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=695855.msg13651504#msg13651504

PS: Ill be getting a Pi3 soon and cant wait for the 64bit processor. 

There is ccminer linked in the OP under the mining section.

The new 64bit GUI wallet looks nice. Keep it up.

I dont think that anyone is in disagreement with your views. I see this coin as follows:

If the dev cares about his coin he will:
1. Lower the POS rate significantly. If he does not then the coin is screwed and dead.
2. Interact with the community at least when the community engages with him

There is nothing that anyone including yourself can do to make the dev do these things. Take a chill pill, sit back and relax. Maybe something comes of it maybe not (the latter having the highest probability). If anything comes of this then it will be a bonus.

It is better to have a block explorer before you go to an exchange.

Just carry on with your work and don't buckle under the pressure in the thread. Sometimes BCT threads can be like cancer.

Keep focused and keep cool and the rest will sort itself out