Thanks Biomech

I don't panic, and because I'm in crypto I have learned to accept losses, even total.  I guess my search parameters were incorrect in the beginning but I did end up finding the folder with my latest wallet.dat before I got your response and it was exactly where you said.  Thank you for your prompt reply.  I guess just downloading the wallet and replacing its virgin wallet.dat with the one I just backed up is all I need to do.  Is that it or do I have to copy any other of the associated files from the roaming folder?  Will my password be attached to the wallet.dat or to something else?

Thanks

URGENT!!  Please Help!

I have Kaspersky Internet Security.  It has never done anything for me (I guess that's a good thing) until today.  I get home and it tells me it detected PDM:Trojan.Win32.Generic in my texcoin-qt.exe.  Wallet was running, now it's not.  Icon/Application is gone.  My only options were disinfect and restart or disinfect without restarting.  No other way to close the alert dialogue box.  Opened Kaspersky but it is not in quarantine.  I have not taken action yet.  No AV or security application I have ever had has done anything other than quarantine without my express permission.  Has always been reversible.  I have searched entire computer for files with the words "tekcoin", "tekcoin-qt.exe", and "wallet".  Nothing is found.  My newest wallet.bak, on another drive, is months old.  If all I can do is re-download a new wallet and use my wallet.bak file, then will I get all my TEK back, just the TEK I had back in August, or is it all gone?

Sincerely

I'd be OK with the 1000TEK minimum thing.  I don't see it as a problem for noobs because 1000TEK is only worth about $5.  That is not investing.  That is just getting in the way.  You can make more money from the cans in your own rubbish bin.  However, 1000TEK will become inadequate at some point.  Lowering the reward with increased coin supply will kill the coin, possibly; maybe not though.  I certainly won't become a millionaire though.  That means I would dump a LOT at some point and I doubt I'm the only one.

It took me awhile, until I saw the mass of 1 TEK stakes at the second address listed above to figure it out.  I really think a limit on the number of times a WALLET can stake per day is the way to go, notwithstanding technical/coding difficulty.

I have an idea that I think would solve it fairly with only short term pain to the lazy and the manipulators.

Whatever size blocks you have or coin supply is irrelevant.  Instead, only allow a wallet to mint once or twice per day.

Communism?!?!  What are you talking about?

#REM  'sarc ON'  'FUD ON',  that's good;

#REM Ihope you don't mind if I use this when I want to get my geek on;

It doesn't matter if you get 40% early on and then 10% later or the other way around.  It is multiplication repeated/compounded.  In a multiplication you get the same result no matter what order you put the numbers.

I guess by intrinsic value I meant quantified.  Be it in USD, sea urchin shells, or whatever.  Sell walls ought to increase supply and, therefore, lower price.   And vice versa for buy walls.  This is what got my investments in such trouble.  In the crypto market this basic fundamental does not hold because of rampant speculation.  That does not even account for short term wall bluffs.  I would still be interested to learn how it is determined whether the coin is over-valued or under-valued.  I believe that the right price for anything at a given moment in time is what two parties willingly trade it for at that moment in time.  A gun to the head or starvation, of course, can drastically affect a "fair market value".
Also, the corollary to the idea that a big sell wall raises the price is that I could put a big sell wall for higher than current price and I would get it and that I could then put up a big buy wall at a lower price and I would succeed in that too.  Soon, all the TEKcoins would be mine.

How does a big buy order drive the price down?  That would mean big sell walls drive price up?  And I would like to hear exactly what or who determines that the price is inflated or otherwise.  What, exactly SHOULD the price be?  Is there a formula for that?  I believe the price of every currency, crypto and fiat, is purely speculative and based on perception as none have any intrinsic value. 

Some may find this data useful.  Waited 83.5 days, plus or minus 0.2 days for 4 nearly equal blocks totalling 84332.729317 TEK.  I unlocked at 0.00011786 PoS difficulty.  I wound up with 166304.8897 TEK.  My simple slope-based formula between 35% and 40% told me my return should be 36.79% but I got equivalent of 34.92% (extrapolated from 30 days to 83.5 days).  That's pretty close to what I predicted, except I was hoping it would be compounded and not just extrapolated.  Still, much better than I would have got compounding the low returns available lately.  Can't complain.
Is there somewhere I can find good docs on the use of the console commands?

Day 83 and my patience is about to pay off.  90 days will pay 3 times as much as 30 days, yeah?  I wonder:  Will it be (at 40%) 120% or 40% iterated 3 times?

I am currently using v2.2.1 and my wallet is locked.  If I updatemy wallet to 2.3 then will it be locked still when I open it?

Day 73 and vacation in 3 days.  Difficulty dropping.  Do I bite the bullet and unlock or wait until I get back?  Hmmm.

Wow, 8th most traded on Cryptsy today.  Go TEK!!

Nope, went below 0.0018 already.  My patience may yet pay off.

I don't know; I'm on day 51 and holding my 2 blocks.  I used to have my blocks spread out but difficulty was high awhile ago so they bunched up while I held out for 40%.  When I unlock my wallet to stake, I wait about half an hour and then combine the blocks back into 2

Well, for supply to not go up PoS reward would have to be removed.  If that happened why would you want TEK?  You can't spend it.

So what does anyone gain by having lots of teeny tiny blocks to stake?  Besides keeping the couple of minutes it would take to combine them in order to spend those two minutes doing something far more valuable than aiming for 40% interest per month.
How long can blocks continue to gain weight before there is no more chance of higher stake?

Sure hope TEK stops dropping in value more than 40% per month soon.