Consider the feasibility of staking from an Android wallet.

    The moment staking from an Android wallet becomes doable, would inevitably become the moment staking from an Android wallet becomes infeasible -- due to reasonable anticipated exponential growth in the PoS difficulty brought on by historically non-staking balances suddenly adopting an Android wallet to start staking.

    The inherent contradiction here becomes - yes we do want staking to protect the network - yes we do want the PoS difficulty to increase and for the blocks to become more full of transactions, leading to fewer reorganizations.  At the same, obtaining this result would undesirably make staking less attractive for an Android user who happens to only open the wallet once in a while here and there.

    However, if all the users ran their staking clients all of the time; we would have a good target PoS difficulty; maximizing transactions in blocks; fewer reorganizations and hence less data usage for an Android client in that they would have fewer blocks to receive and transmit with less overhead.

    The Android hardware "is there" these days, with regard to available memory and computational power.
    Some users want to stake on Android and they are stakeholders too, so their opinion is valuable.
    I do like how the community is sharing the warning about just carrying small balances on mobile devices.

    It seems like this portion of the thread is a good time to reiterate how important staking is for the overall health of the network and how everyone relies upon it now that the PoW phase has ended.

Best Regards,
-Chicago

    Good point, I hadn't really considered how prolific Android emergence has become beyond the mobile phone...

Best Regards,
-Chicago

I can see people wanting to stake it on an old phone plugged in as it uses way less power than a conventional PC or laptop. I'm also wondering how much power is required to stake, if its just a token amount running in a background process, maybe it wont have much of an impact on battery life.

Looking at the wallet daemon on my CHIP it's not using much cpu at a time, however it's continuously running (and presumably as part of staking would need to so that it can keep up with the block chain). Keeping the cpu and data connections active will be something that impacts battery life (being able to suspend the data connections and CPU is the best way of saving battery power).

That said, for people that want a low power staking setup the planned hardware for the Solar Staker would probably fit their needs just as well as an always powered android device (My test setup is currently running at about 2W).

There seems to be a bit of disruption in the network although it is recovering. If you still have no connections the steps that might be worth trying are:

• restarting the wallet (and maybe your pc)
• stop the wallet, remove the peers.dat file and then re-start it.
• remove the whole block chain (as described above) and re-sync

It would be worth waiting a while between each of  those options (maybe an hour to see if they work). As long as you get a few connections you should start syncing to the network.

i have 9 active connections.
i tried restarting wallet
i tried remove peers.dat but wallet not syncing
i dint wana remove whole blocj chain every time.


is there any other solution?

check this image bro

Yes, all the seednodes do appear fine also. I too noticed a lower connection count about 24 hours ago but, only < 10 fewer than the normal on average across the seednodes.  Though they do seem to be returning to normal levels now.

I have moved a more recent snapshot to our web server, http://evergreencoin.org/729617snap.zip should anyone need it. Snapshotting is much faster than re-syncing over the network. Though you do have to download 1 large (~500 MB) file first. Follow these instrustions, but use the more recent snapshot I have linked as opposed to the one linked in those instructions.

I have moved a fresh peers.dat with 38 peers as well to http://evergreencoin.org/peers.dat should that be useful to anyone with a low connection count. Remember, 1) close your wallet. 2) overwrite peers.dat 3) launch your wallet. 4) patience.

Sorry to those experiencing any issue. Measures are being actively taken to further strengthen the network and myself and community members are investigating in-depth and monitoring closely. Of course, thanks to those assisting and offering help to others.

thanks for the information

Hi shadabhmed, sorry for the slow response, I was away from my desk.

I did test the snapshot locally and it did work as expected. The steps you mentioned do sound correct. I am doing some additional testing now to see if I can isolate a problem. Again, sorry for the slow response and for the issue you are experiencing.