What are the projections now for the final number of coins by the end of the "growth period"? 10 million? 100 million? 1,000 million? (I believe they call them billions in the US)

I would say ~3-7 million... but it really depends on how many keeps staking7

Ok, I figured out what happened with the explorer. I sync'd a preliminary change to github for version 1.0.3.0 that had to be fixed. 1.0.4.0 fixed the problem, I created the commit, and built the wallets, and did the whole announcement, but I ended up syncing the change to the wrong (testing) branch.

All your wallets are fine. If you're stuck on a block before 10348 you'll need to delete your blockchain stuff and resync.

Basically anyone that compiled off the github got a slightly outdated copy of the code, and they staked with the new code creating a fork. No one running on the windows wallets should have any issue, and people on linux will get back on the right chain once they compile the latest source. Sorry >.<

Ones coins are staked they cant stake again for 24 hours? or 1440 blocks? Please only answer if you are certain. also, with my pc off I still gain weight right?

+1

My wallet is stuck at block 3445.... it a windows wallet..... what steps do I take to correct this?

Did you update to the latest wallet 1.0.4.0? 

Sometimes just closing the wallet and restarting it can help also.

As soon as they update it. It's actually a little funny, since the fork is only two blocks long. 10330 is correct. Forked at 10331.

when will the block explorer get fixed?

I've read back 10 pages and can't find the current state of the situation. Can someone elaborate?