What a sell pressure
Someone really wanna damp price before the fork.
Translation ... buying opportunity!
Ditto.
Question: in order to stake is the wallet to be kept on and running 24/7 ?
Your coins will mature anyway, wallet open or closed, so you'll stake.
You'll just get less stakes if you don't run it 24/7.
Coin (input) is eligible to stake 3 days after the transaction that put it in your wallet.
Every second it gets a better and better chance to mint as it gets older.
But at 9 days after sitting in your wallet, the chances get no better.
Every second your coin will earn more and more interest once it mints.
But at 15 days, the potential earnings are capped. That means you can't open your wallet after 365 days and earn 20% interest. The most interest you will earn on an input is 0.822% (20% * 15 / 365).
So if you open your wallet every six months to stake, you'll earn just over 1.65% interest (1.00822 * 1.00822).
If you open it every 3 months you'll earn about 3.3% interest.
If you open it every 45 days, you'll earn about 6.7% interest.
If you open it every 22.5 days, you'll earn about 14% interest.
More frequently than that, you'll approach compounding to nearly 22% (based on a nominal APR of 20%).
The last calculation goes like this:
(1 + (0.20 * 3 / 365.0))**(365.0/3) - 1