that is stand for any proof of stake coin. when you stake you destroy coin age in order to do so thats why its important to have multiple inputs. In regards to splitting the input in half. again this is the way stake works. it takes the input calculates the percentage of stake, and then creates two new inputs of close to equal value totaling the initial input plus the stake.
A very good point was made here... You should really split transactions up. Example: if i have 20,000 xst in a wallet it would be to the advantage of chain health to break that amount into 20 1,000 XST transactions instead of 1 20k transactions. The reasons this is important at this point is because a lot of this coin has been kept on exchange due to the amazing volume upon launch. This is great for a POW coin but a POS only phase is negatively effected by this practice and causes very slow long block times because no new POS blocks are minted. By breaking up large chunks we can make sure that constant stake is flowing through the chain.
A lot of the reported "issues" i think are due to this. I also think DNS ISP and Firewalls effect this coin more so than ever as many of those services by default limit or even block TOR services.
What should i do if it is "stuck" or not connecting
1. The first thing you should do is try closing the wallet and re opening it refreshing the connection to tor (this could be a limitation of your DNS or ISP)
2. Add exceptions to your firewall for XST client ( especially in windows sec essentials it hates tor with a passion)
3. Try another DNS Please try the following under "Network Connections", right click and edit your connection then go to IPv4 and IPv6 as follows:
The Google Public DNS IP addresses (IPv4) are as follows:
8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4
The Google Public DNS IPv6 addresses are as follows:
2001:4860:4860::8888
2001:4860:4860::8844
(thank you stat dude)
4. Try a VPS and host the wallet their and see if it connects ( if this is the case it may be your ISP blocking TOR that sucks and this is really the only way around it)
