And now someone just sold 374.05139511 clams
The sell side has reduced by about that much, I'm thinking someone got tired of waiting.
I've been thinking for a while how much of a waste it is to have all those clams just sitting there when someone could have been staking them.
I expect the exchange is staking them.
In fact it wouldn't be hard to find out if you bought CLAMs from an exchange by tracing them back on the blockchain and see if they were staking before you withdrew them.
Yeah, you are probably right. This could possibly cause an issue though if too many coins were frozen in stake and someone wanted to make a large withdraw...They may have to wait a while.
Yes, that could be an issue. But I find that for the most part no more than 50% of my CLAM outputs are immature at any point in time, and usually it's much less, and also the exchange could make it clear that in extreme circumstances coins won't be immediately available for withdrawal. It's comparable to trying to withdraw coins from cold storage - you expect to have to wait while cold stored coins are moved back online.
I guess security could be an issue. In order to stake, you need to have your coins online and effectively not protected by encryption. I know there's an "unlock for staking only" option, but that's not really any protection at all against a determined hacker.