Quote from: kraftcheesy on March 29, 2014, 02:44:38 AM

Quote from: BreeZy on March 29, 2014, 02:15:10 AM

Quote from: kraftcheesy on March 29, 2014, 01:47:03 AM

...I have a question I know is asked often but here it comes again. I bought 20k MintCoin and moved it to my Mintcoin wallet on Feb. 26th. I have never added to or subtracted any coins since then. It has never minted.

Is it completely random when it will mint? And is there a way of telling whats my chance of it actually minting any time in the near future? Also I know its been over 20 days, so when it actually does Mint, will it give me a percent of MintCoin for 20 days or the total days (like if it happened at 40 days do I get double?) I have waited for it to Mint?

Thanks in advance from a MintNewb!

You need to unlock your wallet for it to mint.
Make sure you have the latest wallet and then you only need to click the unlock button.

Unlocking a wallet assumes I locked it. I never locked it. As I was typing this out it just Minted for me. I don't know how or why. It just did it itself. Maybe I just needed to leave the wallet open for more than 5 minutes after syncing?

Yup! That was the key. I usually leave mine open for an hour or two at a time. Minting is a lot like mining, where the number of coins you have at stake is analogous to the amount of hashpower you have. As such, it takes time to find a block and the more coins you have at stake the better the chance you will find one in a shorter amount of time.