can i ask the peerinfo? mine is still in 1 connection

Non and non expected at least few months as DEV went hiatus. 

Good as dead if you ask me.

Ok so yesterday as you may or may not of known I was finishing up the update I have for the i2p implementation which I have fixed, However due to me working on that and unforeseen circumstances I am now in a very very big mess With my personal Life I will not say what happened but just know My top Priority is sorting my Family ie The Kids.

Now that is all I will say about the matter so please do not judge and I beg you all to please just have some patience do not think I have left as I have not and will not but until I have sorted the ISSUE I have I will not be online 24/7 and being able to respond all the time either. This could take from say 1 week to months I do not know I will find more out tomorrow And I hope to god it is good.

So guys please just bare with me If I could tell the reason I honestly would

Thanks
Nightz

Mr. philakone doesn't seem a simple gimme-a-coin guy

https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/1438233.msg14562514#msg14562514

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https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/1438233.msg14584050#msg14584050

I keep getting a connection and then it disconnects never downloading anything... tried adding all sorts of nodes in loco.conf and it has not helped.  No matter if I put 1 or 20 nodes I get one connection it says and then immediately disconnects.

Anyone having same problem or got a solution to this?

Also does anyone know if the exe file is safe? I am running it in a VirtualBox machine right now cuz virustotal is sketchy.

No, I didn't. I can't do that any more right now because it'll take too long to gain weight right? And the 5000 block is coming up. Still though, after 6 hours in the wallet, it should have gained weight right? Or is it 6 hours after the last deposit was made?

1st question:
If your wallet is not encrypted, then you do not have to do anything because it is open already and will stake automatically. If your wallet is encrypted, then you need to unlock your wallet. You can just unlock it if you want to like if it was not encrypted as the net effect will be the same, or you can unlock it for staking only which only enables the staking component. The unlock for staking only can be done in 2 ways, first is to tick the unlock for staking only checkbox and second you can go into the debug console and type "walletpassphrase <yourwalletpassword> 99999999 true".

2nd question:
Any amount can stake if 2 conditions are met. The only impact is the time it will take to stake and if the reward is percentage based, the size of the rewards. Firstly you need to have the coins in your wallet for the minimum stake age which in this case is 1.5 hours, after which your coins becomes eligible for staking. Secondly your coins have to reach at least 1 coinage day. If you have a fraction of a coin it will take a couple of days before you will get 1 coinage day and only then your coins will become mature. This is why some people notice that although their coins have passed the minimum stake age they still do not show as matured. If someone has 100000 coins of a certain coin as an example, he will have 1 coinage day very quickly, but someone with 0.5 coins will take 2 days.

Once your coins are in your wallet (actually once broadcast on the network) they begin to generate network weight at that address which is a combination of the number of coins in your wallet and the time they have been in your wallet (coinage). Once this becomes "heavy" enough your coins will generate a stake. Someone with a larger amount of coins will reach that point quicker than someone with a small number of coins.

Lastly, the coins in your wallet are stored in blocks and each block of coins will stake on its own. If you have 2 blocks of lets say 10 coins each, when the time comes they will stake separately. This is where coin control enters - if you go to options and display, you can select to show coin control. If you then click on "send" you have the option to select inputs which will display the input blocks your wallet balance consist of. Here you can manage your input block sizes for the optimal block size to stake. There are generally 2 methods that stake rewards are generated each with its own subsections like HPOS, DPOS etc. - firstly there is fixed size per stake and secondly percentage based (like in the case of posex). If a coin gives fixed size rewards, your input blocks can be more smaller ones because when they stake you get the same rewards in anyways. If a coin gives percentage based, then you must have very small number of large block sizes, in fact, one block of all your coins will be ideal. To change your block size, you go into coin control and select all your little blocks and select OK. Then copy the total coin amount less fees and paste into the amount field. Paste your wallet receiving address in the to field and send. You will then have a large input block consisting of all the small blocks you selected.

If you want to apply this to posex, then you have to look at the max stake age and method of POS rewards. The max age is 5 days, so coins older than 5 days don't give you an advantage. Since the posex POS rewards is percentage based, put all your input blocks into one large block. Do this at least 5 days before your target POS block number you are aiming for, so you have to work it out based on the average block time. Also remember to not send coins from your prepared input block so that you do not move those coins to a change address. When you send coins, select coins from a smaller block through coin control, from blocks you might keep on the side for non-staking purposes. Once you hit a reward, wait for the coins to confirm and then combine them again into a big block. This is because once you hit a stake the wallet combines the coins in the block that staked with the POS reward and the total is split into 2 with a result of 2 block of the same size. You can perhaps leave this as two blocks but not leave it for a more than a second stake because then they get out of sync and more difficult to control. Ideally combine after the first stake.