I have 220 coins available to be staked. (22 mined blocks from the 3rd of last month. There was 31 days last month.)

I have since found 350 coins, (35 blocks), and have 0 staked coins.

Like I asked before... how random is "stake" coins generation, once they are available to be staked?

At this rate, if I get 1 stake-coin now... that is less than 1/200th. And I have to wait for 60-90 MORE days before that 1/200th produces 5/100th of a coin. That is 5% 200 = 0.025% gain for holdings. (That is if I get 1 staked-coin now... Which I have not gotten yet.)

I don't know what the point of waiting an additional 60-90 days, after the first 30 days. Why not just make it 60-90 days to start-off? For such a small reward, it should just be 30 days, and 0.05%, for all holdings, not random rewards worth nano-cents. (Smaller block rewards would be better too. For increased value.)

FYI: I am buying CAP at every low. lol... it is cheaper than mining it. Some people just don't know how to value their earnings, or a lot of people just don't mind parting with a loss. My gain!

Yea, none of my blocks are zero... not yet... soon I hope!

Got a link to your post? I have no idea what the "official forum" is... since the coin does not even have an "official website"... Though I would like to make one, it would not be official.

Finding lots of blocks though. Nice diff level to solo-mine.

Seems like another fork: http://www.bottlecapspool.com/ is on a different chain again ahead of everybody else

Bottlecaps is a great alt. coin and I also really like the fact that its a PoS coin.

I think I first referred to Bitcoins as 'Electronic Bottle Tops' on this forum way back when a small group of us played a game of Texas Hold'em via PokerTH for Bitcoins! Its amazing how ideas go full circle.  

However, I'm finding that the current 1.4 windows qt release has a few major problems (as I reported a few pages back) and its crashing for me when sending coins from an encrypted wallet.

A Linux build seems to be working properly and I've not found the time to try a new windows build yet. Hopefully mullick (and others?) are almost done with the new v1.4.1 build ? If there is another fork then we must look to spread out and increase the hash rate and continue from there.

Not looked at the math yet but how would 5% PoS with say a 10 day coin age pan out long term ? I'm considering a concept for a Fractional Reserve Proof-Of-Stake 'BottleBank' Mining Pool. Where miners would have the option to 'lock-in' a percentage of their mined coins, for a fixed duration, to both add to and take advantge of PoS payouts from a large % of reserve CAP held in pool wallets dedicated to continual PoS minting, also helping to secure the network. Yes, I'm against centalization, but its good to try some new experiments and it wouldn't really be an issue with several PoS type pools up and running.

Anyway, just looking to know that those who started this coin are still keen to keep it going. I'd look to factor in >1% to the Foundation.  

If you are looking to create your own coin... (as I am)... You might want to take a minute to read my long-ass blurb about future coins, gen-3 coins.

https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/267251

Well things are obviously getting better. Thanks for the hard work and effort. Looking forward to the future of this coin.

Sure. I'll have a read of that sometime. I'm not looking to create another coin though.

I'm considering a mining pool that includes PoW and PoS rewards for the benefit of the miners, 'savers', the pool owner and also increases the security of the network and the pool node.

With a coins PoS >2% (5% planned implementation for CAPs) it is possible for a PoW pool to offer additional incentives and rewards. Pools often have a fixed fee or % donation contribution. Why not add a simple PoW % savings option on mined coins for a % share PoS payout on existing reserves, much like banks do, with a user specified duration and the principal sum also being returned.

I have a theoretical way to maximize PoS (or at least to ensure the upper bound reward over time) on balances, which I must first test. We can perhaps increase the 'Frequency of Proof-of-Stake'. At worst it is beneficial to network and pools security stability.

Basically a fairly large balance would be equally spread across multiple wallets as the pools 'Reserve Repositories' eligible for PoS minting already with 30 days coin age. The % of reservebalance= in the .conf would be changed after each PoS minting so that there are always more coins to be staked again and again within a 30 day period.

A fixed % of the PoS reward goes to the pools 'savers' as payouts from each wallet, with the rest increasing the wallets balance and therefore slightly increasing future PoS rewards. This Frequency of Proof-of-Stake will ensure a more stable avg. overtime against difficulty. Having many active reserve wallets also increases the pools overall chance at generating stake and/or maintaining this avg.

Note that this model works without the need to take deposits. In fact it is (optional) 'Deposit Money Creation' as described in 'Modern Money Mechanics' which is currently being improperly managed by banks in our failing world economies and by the likes of the federal reserve etc.

However, this actually works if the human factors such as trading, hedging, loans etc. are completely removed from the system and it could therefore work really well with PoS in crypto-currencies, which is essentially an automated fixed return.

I don't like centralization, but this could be very interesting for future development in crypto money. Coins will require additional development.

However, the creation of a Proof-of-Stake Fractional Reserve Depository and Repository 'BottleBank' is nonetheless very amusing!  

As far as I am aware, any POS award under 1 will be rounded to 0.  POS must earn at least 1 coin to be awarded anything.  So if you POS 10 coins you'll be minting 0.5, but that will round down to 0.  If you did 100 you'll have 5.  Can anyone confirm/correct this?

Updated the list...

POS seems broken... perhaps the last running POS wallet that was working, was the one on that fork... After they got back on the correct chain, that made 100% of the broken code for POS now running? (It seems)

After that block 58088, there have been no more POS blocks. Before that, there was about 10 blocks per 1000 blocks. (Roughly 1% were being produced 1:100)... Now none are being produced. The only connection I see, is that one old program which was still running, on the fork, which is now gone. Leaving us, with all the updated and possibly broken POS code, still running.

Unless, the diff for POS has changed to match normal block diffs... then I would have to manually search every block, one by one, to find the POS blocks. (In previous searches, all POS blocks have shown as diff-0.003)

If it is broken... could it be that the calculation, for some reason, thinks the "update date", is 0-days, and will not start working again until 30 days from the update, before it begins producing POS blocks?

That is the only "glitch" I can think of, which would result in a complete stopping of POS blocks, unless POS was just disabled after that date... or, the "variable" used had a max value of 65536, which is close to 58088... close enough that a calculation for "next after 58088..." in a formula that multiplies that by something, might fail... resulting in something like a rolled-over value of 232 for a next POS, which should have been (58088 + 232 = 58320) after the formula summed-up, but resulted in just 232, which was already done, and thus, would fail block-height by nonce... or something like that.

Has POS been disabled until 1.4.1?

I also found it odd that the block-reward for these two blocks was below 10... they were POS blocks...
45455, 9.999
45252, 3.666

The totals should have been at-least 10... right?

45251 oops... lol.. told you my eyes were getting tired...

But the other one, with 9.999 should still have been 10... is everyone sending 10-coin transactions? Oh, I get it... there was only 9.999 available for stake, because 0.001 was lost as a fee from that block... That was the amount which got staked 9.999 but resulted in 0 gain... (The 0.001 was in another person's possession.)

Like the others I see 10.01 were obviously 20 coins available for stake, so they gained 0.01 from the 20 staked coins, thus 10 = 10.01 after the reward. (10 for the block + 0.01 for the stake-reward)

Any word as to why the staked coins POS stopped after block 58088?