Quote from: Bigrah on March 05, 2015, 01:48:53 PM

Sorry if my question is dumb. But its my first coin with POS and i dont really get it.

About 7h ago my wallet showed a few k as Balance and 98% of my Coins under Stake.

About 5 min ago there where 80% Balance and 20% under Stake.

And now there is no Stake Coins and all under Balance.

I got mined coins. But i dont get the Balance/Stake. Should not everythin be at Stake that is older than 2h??

Also should the PC need that much CPU Power while staking? Or should i reboot him if something else uses the CPU???

Brief description how POS II works

Explanation of Balance and Stake sections
After wallet is started everything is under Balance. Your wallet begins attempts to stake.
Then if it manages to stake a block money from this particular transaction moves under Stake.
It stays there for 70 blocks until reward matures.
Then it moves back under Balance and this money is available for staking again.

Regarding CPU power usage- it depends on how many transactions you have in your wallet. POS II design is that every successful staking splits transaction into two halves. Hence transaction sizes become smaller and smaller which means there will be more and more transactions competing with other wallets. This increases PoS weight and helps secure the network.

However the more transactions you have the more CPU power is used. So you can see both pros and cons. I do not know how many transactions you have and what computer you are using. If CPU usage is too high you can generate new receiving address and send all money from your wallet into this single address. This way you will have just one transaction which will be staking so CPU usage should drop.

Apart of that there may be other reasons why CPU usage is high. Common one is not enough RAM etc.

Example:

1. Let's say you have 10 mil of coins in one transaction.
2. If you keep staking it after a while staking event happens.
3. 10 mil is divided onto 2 transactions (5 mil + reward) each (this moves under Stake section)
4. After 70 blocks 10 mil + reward is moved back under Balance. The only difference is now you have 2 transactions of 5 mil each which try to stake.

Real world example:
https://chainz.cryptoid.info/nobl/block.dws?2834.htm

From (amount) -> 9pyknnPjfJ9cQFbt7ovZS44tTUBbiea73m   500,057.18 NOBLES
Created   30.39405957 NOBLES

You can see "From" transaction was split into two transactions:
- 9pyknnPjfJ9cQFbt7ovZS44tTUBbiea73m   250,043.78 NOBLES
- 9pyknnPjfJ9cQFbt7ovZS44tTUBbiea73m   250,043.79405957 NOBLES