I wanna stake DCR. I have no coding skills. So how can I stake?
I heard a new wallet is out in normal format. Is it now possible to stake just by depositing to one's address?
I don't think gui supports staking yet, but it's really not that tricky to set up if you can use the command line/terminal at all, especially now that there are example config files.
1) Setup dcrd.conf with your username and password for rpc.
2) Make a script bat/sh file that launches dcrd with the conf file, like: "dcrd /C dcrd.conf"
3) Let dcrd sync.
4) Setup dcrwallet.conf with your username and password for rpc.
5) Make a script bat/sh file that launches dcrwallet with the conf file, like: "dcrwallet /C dcrwallet.conf"
6) Setup dcrctl.conf with your username and password for rpc.
7) Register on stakepool, like stakepool.eu, and follow the instructions to get a new address, and validate it using commands like:
dcrctl.exe /C C:\path\to\decred\dcrctl.conf /wallet getnewaddress
dcrctl.exe /C C:\path\to\decred\dcrctl.conf /wallet validateaddress Dsf...
Import the p2sh script after submitting your validated address thinger on the stakepool
9) Buy some tickets using the command from stakeppool, using dcrctl with a command like:
dcrctl.exe /C C:\path\to\decred\dcrctl.conf /wallet purchaseticket "default" 20 1 DcpcZE5RAJiDipEQrx6KbcrwjLJKbovrSyq 10 Dse3AUS4LwuZZ28bRttyenNKPXdF6atK7rw 5
It's certainly not the easiest thing to setup, but it shouldn't take more than an hour, and there were people to help me get setup on #decred on freenode irc if you get stuck. And now I'm staking like a vampire hunter
