When i opened my wallet yesterday I was getting new Mint from minting every 20-30 min up until around 10am this morning then it stopped. Is this normal? My wallet is still super slow and making my pc unusable for anything else. This started around 8 am today. If Im done minting I guess I can close the wallet and actually use my pc again. I cant believe Im the only person with this issue.
You might close your wallet for a while and reopen it later. You don't have to leave the wallet running to keep your coindays.
I am running a client always with just a few coins in it to verify transactions and act as a peer in the network, but I keep my main wallet offline.
Tried that. When I closed the wallet for a few hours, I dont get any minting. It seems it the transactions would be waiting for the wallet to open. Is this not the case? If i was getting Mint every 20-30 min with wallet, but none while wallet is closed, it seems the wallet would always have to be open to get credit. But then the computer is unusble for anything else. Its an i7 with 16gb of ram. What the hell could the wallet be doing to hog that much of my resources?
You might have deposited several times initially into your wallet 20-30 minutes apart. Once you mint, your coin age is destroyed on the coins as they get staked. So you have to wait until more coin age accumulates in order to mint again. That is why you were minting every 20-30 minutes at first, and now you are not. You will probably have to wait another 20 days or so for enough coin age to come back into those coins before you will start getting them frequently again. You have to have the wallet open for minting but you do not have to have it open to accumulate coin age. You have to have your wallet open for it to connect with the network and activate the PoS minting process. Just put most of your coins into 1 address and then open your wallet and unlock it once a month, and you will will be golden. If you pile all of your coins into 1 address, then you just wait past 20 (say 30 days) days and you will get all of it once per month, that way it is not trickling in.