Quote from: chilly2k on October 23, 2014, 04:07:40 AM

Couple of noob questions that I couldn't find the answers to.

  In coin control I should be looking at list mode and not tree mode. Correct?

  In list mode each group of coins has an age, and a weight. I'm assuming that's the stake age and the current staking weight. So higher is better for both numbers.
Also that the weight is really somehow calculated with the age and number of coins.

OK, I thought the MAX stake age was 30 days. I have a measly 20 coins by there lonesome that are 33.122 days old. There weight is 486.

I just received a bunch of coins and got them in one group of a little over 4K coins. And the rest of my coins (about 1K) are scattered into several smaller piles. Some of these are 16 - 25 days old.

   What is the average time for a 4K block to stake?

   Thanks for any help.

Pretty damn good questions for a noob Cheesy

You got it right on coin control. List mode shows each block, tree mode shows each address. I never use tree, don't even see it's purpose, but that's me.

Max stake maturity is thirty days. After that it gains no further weight, but will keep trying to stake and should eventually do it. I have staked ONE coin. Took bloody forever, but I wanted to see if it worked. It went way past the gain.

I've no idea if there even is an average time, I've yet to have blocks bigger than 2K. After my next two stake, I'll be combining into 4K and watching, but it's pretty variable. All of us have ideas and opinions on what the ideal size is, but bigger blocks are more likely to stake early in the maturity period. Not guaranteed. The worry is if they are too big, you throw away some potential as the max subsidy is 1000 coins. So basically, we're trying to find the sweet spot where you hit real close to that without going over in the shortest time. It's like chess in hyperspace Cheesy

Best of luck, welcome to the community, and if you find good answers, please share!