Not only will it stake but it will stake from 2 locations (since you use 2 keys). So you can do hardware staking when im finished coding it.

Wallet.dat is not used. You cant import a qt wallet into BitBay. Everything in Bitbay is multisignature (dual key). So just make the two keys and send coins to the new address. Soon we will add staking.

Thanks for all the info David, Gizfreak, and Munti!

I'm planning on getting in touch with my brother who lives in another town.
I'll get him to install the client so we can set up a joint account that is virtually unhackable!

Love the idea!

Can't wait to get some more time this weekend to play around with it!

bitbaymarket.net is the best choice i think

The issue may be with the bitbayd build. Its run as a subprocess and there are some mac systems it doesnt run on. If you can PM me, we can get that working for you.

On Windows 8 I get a "bitpayd failed to load" message.  I have tried running as Administrator and no luck. Ideas?

Ok been running the market wallet for over a day and have tried searching the market and nothing shows at all...Ive asked once before what i may be doing wrong and didn't get an answer or even a suggestion.
 So am i to assume this is how new people on the scene are going to be treated, because Ive seen others post here and get answers and Ive posted here even in the past and so far have never received an answer to ANY of my questions.

Please someone explain why the market never populates for anything at all with my client.

Hey there, if you see how many times i post here obviously im more than happy to help you out even personally. Ok so your market isnt populating. I'm wondering if bitmessage wasnt getting a good connection or perhaps has a firewall issue? Im thinking the best way may be to give you a custom bitmessage client that you can run so we can look inside it and see whats going on.

Also, try to double check that your bitmessage address is loaded. Even in Bitbay, it will tell you how many connections you had. Sorry if i overlooked your comment. I get amazingly busy.

I'm more than happy to walk you through it on IRC, Skype or email. PM me so we can get you started.

To improve Bitmessage, im very soon going to be having a superior seeding system to speed things up.

You might want to try posting an order to the market and see if you end up seeing your own order. Make it for like 1 bitbay. Also, everyone in the markets should see that as well.

Another thing we can try is that I send an offer to you directly to your bitmessage address. We will see if it sees incoming messages. Perhaps your peers didnt find ours. So far, i have only see this issue once and it was with my build on my computer at a second location. I was unable to see messages that my other setup saw. But it later found peers and fixed itself. I will definitely look into hard coding some peers for the network thats arent native bitmessage nodes.

In the future, i can run all the nodes through a server and have all client pull that list for instant connection.