After going through the XC devs' more recent posts, I feel they lack the ability or smarts to manage something that huge (from a financial and economical standpoint).  In my opinion, that's one of the major differences between Supernet and Blocknet.  James has a very firm understanding of all this stuff in addition to his coding ability.  It's even hard to tell if XC devs can pull it off from a developmental standpoint since they are currently closed source and no one can check the progress being made.  Yet another major difference.

45k now, including my weight. Saw your message and opened up my laptop to stake

That's the plan

You should only stake faster but the amount is still 5% per year.
though you will get more transactions fees and compound interest - so in the end you will get more

Unless of course it's you with the 600+ ip connections... Then you'll always get that

is there other mining sites for btcd besides .ca?

Hmmm, wallet not syncing.  Is the configuration file in the OP correct?  Tried deleting everything and re-installing, but still doesn't seem to be working.

Aptidude, this is a known issue. If you wait about 30 min with the wallet open, it'll connect to nodes automatically. My wallet running with BitcoinDark.conf file. No lowercase "d" need.

Sometimes, it just take some extra time to connect to other nodes. Otherwise, everything is fine.

Thanks for the link. Just voted $BTCD. We need more votes. Please BitcoinDark fans and users vote for your coin.