Nothing, it can take some time to stake depending on the number of coins you have and the size of the inputs you are using to stake with, there is also a degree of luck involved. I have some inputs in the 3500 DNET range that are at over 5000 confirmations and haven't staked yet, I also have seen them stake in only a few hundred confirmations.


The budget proposals that were made before the latest kerfuffle with constant wallet updates will have to be resubmitted. They were only showing on http://178.254.23.111/~pub/DN/DN_masternode_payments_stats.html because the person running that site had started their wallet with a backup of their budget.dat in an effort to have the information contained therein propagate across the network. It didn't, so the majority of wallets would have rejected any budget payments because they didn't recognize them as valid. I reset the budget yesterday and we will get some similar proposals up in the next day or so.

As far as who controls the coins in the meantime, there seems to be some confusion, or misunderstanding regarding how the budget system actually works. In a nutshell, no one controls them in the meantime, they don't actually exist. Once every 43200 block(about 30 days) there is what is referred to as a super block. If there are any budget items that have passed the thresholds required to be approved the coins for those items are created at that block and sent to the addresses intended to receive them with no third party intervention. The budget system is completely decentralized, in that no one controls the coins and sends them to people, it is all done automatically in the code.

If there is a month in which there are no proposals to pay out to the coins are never created. That is why the actual coin count is less than the projected coin count up to this point. There has yet to be a month where the entire budget allotment has been spent.