Quote from: soulhudson on May 29, 2014, 11:24:27 AM

Hey bit of a newb - can anyone explain this staking business?

I have about 20% of my wallet sitting in 'stake' and other 80% in 'spendable' and current 0 in 'unconfirmed'

I have received a small amount via PoS which state 'mined' (confirmed+accepted) + some which is 'generated but not accepted' (i.e. looks dead)

I go into advanced options in wallet (under send) and see in the tree view that the items which seem to align with the 'stake' bucket have a priority of highest' and are reasonably old ( 14-May ) and have 4073 confirmations.

The other 80% is also marked priority 'highest' but slightly newer (about 12 hours later ~15-May ) but with higher confirmations (6307)

I was expecting that after they matured (X-Days) they would move from 'spendable' => 'stake'

what makes them 'stake'-able? Please note that I do have multiple 'addresses' as I spread the incoming coins across multiple as I assumed (at the time) that if I added newer coins to existing address with older coins the 'clock' would restart.....

Somewhat confused......

Here's my basic understanding of this, but as I'm also new to all this PoS business, I could be way off. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

All normal, mature coins are "Stakeable".
Coins in "Stake" are coins that recently received PoS coins. It creates a new output that needs to mature again, that's why it isn't spendable. Once it gets spendable (mature) again, it shows at the spendable balance and will start to attract stake again.

So for example, you have 1 address, where you got 3 transactions.
1: 10 MAST
2: 100 MAST
3: 1000 MAST

When these coins are mature, they start trying to find PoS blocks, each output individually. So you have 1110 mature coins under "Spendable". The 1000 MAST output has a higher chance to get stake reward than the 10 MAST. But over time, the chance increases, so that the 10 MAST will eventually also find it. When the 1000 MAST found reward (say 0.1 MAST), you'll have a new 1000.1 MAST output that needs to mature (1200 confirmations) again. The 1000.1 MAST then show up under "Stake" and can not be spend (or receive PoS reward) until they mature. The remaining 110 are still under "Spendable" and waiting to get their PoS.

About the "'generated but not accepted' (i.e. looks dead)": That usually means those PoS blocks you mined are orphans, so the network has decided to take another block instead of yours (happens when blocks are found at almost the same time by different people).