hi guys,dont know much about masternodes but what are my options holding 1073 BTCT in my desktop wallet? i thought i could mine via the wallet but i guess i need a masternode hookup. I see things like shared masternodes but dont know how it really works. Im a noob at this so any help would be awesome.

the website says just have your tokens in the wallet and leave it open, but i feel maybe im missing something
wallet says staking is active but im not sure how to see what is staking

i did try -masternode= with n being 0 but it says Method not found (code -32601

anyway, much help would be appreciated