Quote from: technerd on January 12, 2018, 10:47:38 AM

Quote from: ijuststarted on January 11, 2018, 03:58:44 PM

Hi everyone,
i want to give staking a try, basically just for fun (with the amount of CLAMS I own, it takes probably a few years before i get lucky

)
Nevertheless, I have some questions.
1.) Does the age of the coins make any difference (does it matter if a coin is one day old or three years old?)
2.) Does the performance of the PC used make difference
3.) Does the Operating System and the version of CLAM in use ("Commandline" vs. GUI) make a difference?
4.) Do i have to open and forward some ports in my router (like running a node in Bitcoin Core?)
5.) General advice for Staking (apart from having a huge amount of CLAM Cheesy

)?

Thank you to anyone helping me.

From what I experienced, I don't think #1 and #3 make a difference. For #2: I suspect, though I am not really sure, that it is your network performance that will play a difference. Perhaps someone can pitch in.

But regardless, staking on your own involves waiting for a period of time before you'll stake something -- this "time" is not uniform, meaning you may experience a drought and not get anything for a long time, and then you'll get a bunch in a rather small amount of time. (The other option will be placing your coins in a staking pool, though I don't thank that is not on your questions above.)

For #4: I didn't do any tweaking, though as I understand, you'll want to be careful in terms of security, as your wallet will be open all the time and you wouldn't want security to be compromised.

Perhaps some others can add more info. All the best.

Thank you for answering! Would be indeed interesting to know if Network Latency has any influence. I'd tend to say no because of the 1 Minute block times, but maybe I'm missing something.
Another question: Is it possible to stake from a multisig address? This would increase security i guess.