If you have started your wallet and unlocked it, it is likely that you joined the PoS process.
And considering you haven't had opened your wallet for a long time, your coins have aggregated lots of coin age. I assume you have been very successful in PoS minting and that is why your balance is temporarily reduced or even 0.
You should check your transactions to veryfiy my assumption!I have my peercoin client running on a linux machine. So the output may differ.
Entering "ppcoind listtransactions" shows you the transactions.
In my case it looks like this (amount and blabla are numbers - in case you wonder about that
):
[...]
{
"account" : "",
"category" : "immature",
"amount" : <amount>,
"confirmations" : 497,
"blockhash" : "<blabla>",
"blockindex" : 1,
"txid" : "<blabla>",
"time" : 1384962077
}
And "ppcoind getbalance" shows me a reduced balance until the coins have matured (which is in my case in 23 blocks).
After 520 blocks the coins that have been at stake appear in the wallet (including the PoS reward).
If you are on windows, there should be a folder "daemon" (in the folder where the ppcoin-qt.exe resides) containing an executable file "ppcoind.exe".
You can use ppcoind.exe in a command prompt to execute the aforementioned commands if you don't understand the output of the ppcoin-qt.exe
