Gridcoin Wallet a little mystifying...

[clackmine]

I've been mining various coins since September with a high degree of success. SHA256 ASIC miners, GPU miners, CPU miners, Scrypt ASIC miners, 6 different pools, numerous wallets, etc. I've been impressed with how reliable the hardware and software has been - but then there's Gridcoin. I've been running BOINC projects since 2011 and it didn't take me long to figure out you don't get credit for that, however, I have had one 24 coin payout, but since then I always seem to be x hours from my next one. Also worth mentioning is that on the overview page it says my CPID is invalid whereas Diagnostics says it passes. Can anybody give a quick explanation of all that is taking place in the wallet - especially the bottom line that comes up in the overview page after the wallet has been open a while? Exp PPD, Act PPD, Fulf, GCR MagUnit???

My fundamental point I guess would be why does all the 'processing' take place seemingly within the wallet? Why isn't this wallet like the other -Qt wallets - just send me my coins for my work done and process all my work on the BOINC servers!

I currently have 12200 RAC, my interest constantly varies from 2 hours to 5 hours, POR always says 15 seconds. I added more computers doing 7 more tasks, and 2 more on my cellphone - still no reward. I am a Gridcoin team member for each project - SETI, Einstein, PrimeGrid.

UPDATE: Now getting on for 24 hours later, RAC has dropped to 12000 which means I've just lost 200 credit towards a potential coin payout I guess. Interest still at 5 hours, POR still at 15 secs. Keep in mind I run pretty much 24-7, 17 tasks, one laptop running 10 tasks simultaneously on an i7. Starting to think Gridcoin is a bit of a joke...

[clackmine]

No takers / insights?

[buwaytress]

You might get a bit more joy if you post in the Altcoins Mining section: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=160.0

Just a Sunday hobby - personally only tried cpu/gpu mining for a handful of the big 4 and then on Monero... I always seem to lose credits also after a long stretch of not monitoring (sleep, for example). Never really figured out why and support became too technical for me.

[clackmine]

You might get a bit more joy if you post in the Altcoins Mining section...

I actually got moved to this section from Beginners/Help. Maybe the moderator can do it so I'm not double posting? Thanks for the reply though 

[clackmine]

Did some extensive googling and burrowing through various forums and found out CPID validity problems are a side effect of missing key-pair information. If you transfer your wallet.dat file to a new computer with a fresh install of the Gridcoin wallet, make sure you take the .conf file with it from the %appdata% subfolder. This will contain the public and private key associated with your CPID and will satisfy the wallet software for the beacon you already sent from the previous install. Apparently you can have a beacon removed and send another (presumably this generates new keys) but so far it looks like my invalid CPID issue is resolved.