Now my question for the forum:
I have 25 transactions that have 99999999.000 coins, each at 14 days and 1 transaction with 37017040.8024 coins at 14 days.
Should I wait to see if they mint or should I combine them now?
10% at 5 days then 2% daily until it mints
Combine them now, asap. The larger the stack the greater the probability of staking new coins. The probability is a calculus of the number of coins times the days they've been sitting (coinday = total_coins X days_sitting) You will lose your "14 days", so this is something you'll need to weigh.
But be warned, be sure that you don't combine them all into one address since 25 x 100 million = 2.5 billion, and this will corrupt and crash your wallet.dat file.
I usually prefer to combine them into stacks of 1 billion each, or 1.5 billion each. At least that way its safe, and what they produce: "the new minted" coins are always small stacks much smaller than 2 billion (10%, 2%, etc). And every now and then, I combine all those new smaller stacks into yet more stacks of about 1 billion each... and so on.
Thanks arcmetal I'm glad I had already decided to do that.
I had corrupted my wallet by trying to combine ~2.5 billion prior and had to use Python and Pywallet to delete all the transactions to get it to open back up. I then exported the pvkey out and imported into a new wallet... worked like a charm and got all my original transactions back.
That's how I ended up with 14 days minting... took me that long to steal enough time to work on it and actually getting Python and Pywallet setup right was the hardest part for my situation.
My newly combined transactions are at 1.137 bil, 999 million, & 399 million. I obviously could have done a better job combining the 24 original transactions and may have to recombine them to improve staking.