i thought the whole point of new PoS version and reward revision was so people would keep staking wallets online to secure the network.
i guess you still need a wallet online, but you can stake multiple large wallets from a single client now.
kinda defeats the purpose no?
The wallets ARE online. Its just that you can stake from multiple locations. This prevents people from hacking your account with keyloggers. Since with this method you can use 2 keys.
For example, you have a multisig account in Halo. You find a block, you then sign 1/2 send to the 2nd location (which could be an entirely different computer or device) and then sign the OTHER HALF.
Then that second location knows its a stake and will broadcast.
Imagine you can do this with a 10 of 10 multisig or even 80 out of 100. Thus you send the transaction with the kernel to your other locations they all sign it, when it gets enough sigs they broadcast.
ALSO, you can now stake manually by checking the kernel and putting the block signature in 6a with no value out. This means people can design their own staking and payout schemes easily.
In fact it even means you can make a multipool where ALL the members are part of a giant multisig where they all sign the discovered block and divide it based on their proportion by their vote.
There is so many awesome staking schemes here.
Heres another one: you can do a multipool custom staking and send out all blocks to checklocktimeverify freezing coins preventing selling until a predetermined time.
Also this makes it easier to do decentralized voting schemes since miners can payout to a voting address, etc