Quote from: d5000 on April 01, 2019, 06:32:49 PM

Quote from: wingless on April 01, 2019, 04:33:36 PM

I'm using version 0.3.2.1 alpha of the wallet app. I've set up a reserve balance in the config app, but I haven't noticed anything going on. Other than unlocking your wallet for minting, is there anyway to ensure that the wallet is actually staking? I'd appreciate any help!

0.3.2.1 is a pretty old version. Which OS are you using? If using Linux I would recommend you to compile the current Git "master" branch where recently a staking bug was fixed: https://github.com/slimcoin-project/Slimcoin/tree/master

For windows and without having to compile the code, the last release was: https://github.com/slimcoin-project/Slimcoin/releases/tag/SLMv0.5.0 (I am almost sure it worked well). There were other inofficial releases on minkiz.co, but I don't remember if the last one already contains the bug that prevents staking.

I guess that you're not receiving PoS rewards (you see them in the transaction list), otherwise you wouldn't ask. If your biggest UTXO (an UTXO is, in a simplified manner, the coins you got in one single transaction) is superior to 1000 and you haven't transacted with these coins for more than 30 days, you should at least find a stake block every now and then.

The reservebalance must be lower than "your balance minus the UTXOs with those you want to stake". An example:
- You got the following UTXOs (transactions): 300, 600, 1500 (total: 2400)
- You want to stake with the UTXO that cointains 1500 coins.
- Thus, your reservebalance must be 900 or lower (2400 - 1500), otherwise you can't stake with the 1500-coins-UTXO.

If nothing is working, try turning the reservebalance off (open "Help"->"Debug window" and type "reservebalance false").

PS: FreiExchange is allowing deposits/withdrawals again

Longer PS: I have just checked the following thread in Peercointalk. It seems that in the debug.log in your data directory (e.g. /home/myuser/.slimcoin or on Windows a Slimcoin folder in the "Application Data" directory) you can find information about if you're staking.

Search for the following messages there:

- ThreadStakeMinter started
- CPUMiner started for proof-of-stake: Both messages seem to indicate that your client is starting to trying to mint ("to stake").
- CPUMiner : proof-of-stake block found - This seems to indicate that your client has successfully found a block. However, it's still not accepted by other clients in the network.

When you find a transaction in your wallet giving you a minting reward, and this transaction is being confirmed, then staking was finally successful.

If you find transactions, but they are greyed out, then your PoS blocks are not accepted. This can happen because of the bug I outlined some messages before and confirmed by Graham, which has been solved in the latest master commits (and only affects you if you used experimental code). If your PoS blocks are never accepted, then you'll victim of this bug (or another one) and have to update your client.

Maybe this is the ultimate solution for the frequently asked question "Am I staking or not?" Wink

Edit: As I just saw in the Slimcoin code (line 5375 of main.cpp and the following), there are three cases where the "CPUMiner started for proof-of-stake" message will appear, but the mint process won't be starting:
- Your blockchain is still not up to date (IsInitialBlockDownload()).
- You have no connections (vNodes.empty())
- Your wallet is locked (pwallet->IsLocked())

As long as the process doesn't hang, and the message appears AND the conditions are filled, you are definitively staking.

Will try to document that ASAP on the Slimcoin homepage or the Wiki.

Hi d5000,

Thank you so much for your reply. I'm using windows 7. In the past, I've tried multiple times to use the newest version of the wallet app, but it would always crash on me, especially when mining. The only version that does not crash on me is version 0.5.0.0 Sad

Thank you very much for explaining how to set up the reserve balance, I unfortunately had entered it in correctly and that's why my wallet was not staking. However, after putting in the reserve balance staking began, the wallet has been freezing on me, and I can no longer mine. Even though the wallet is non-responsive, I still see that staking occurs (after restarting the wallet I see the new transactions appear). I looked at the directions for staking on slimco.in and it sounds like I need to minimize the number of inputs for staking. I've tried to do this in the past by sending myself a payment, but the wallet app crashed and after restarting, I could no longer connect to any peers. Fast forward a whole bunch of troubleshooting and some "voodoo computing" I was able to wallet to re-sync to the network. Since then, I've been a little scared to try sending myself another transaction. Is there anything you'd recommend me trying out to avoid this issue?

I've been trying to get into Slimcoin for the past few years, but unfortunately the issue of the wallet crashing has made it hard to be consistently involved with it, if there is something I'm doing wrong, please let me know. Thank you again for the detailed advice.