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Qtum Staking
Qtum employs PoS (Proof of Stake) consensus mechanism, which is different from Bitcoin's PoW (Proof of Work). The mining process in PoS system is called staking. The block producer will get 1QTUM, as well as the transaction fees and gases as block reward. So the real reward is usually more than 1QTUM in total.
Qtum blocks are produced in average every 32s
Basic requirements for staking：
- 1.Run a Qtum fullnode, and keep online (Since Qtum is using PoS, we don't need any mining machine, just PC or even Raspberry Pi can run a fullnode);
- 2.Have some QTUM in the wallet (fullnode)（Any amount of QTUM can be used for staking, more QTUM means higher possibility to stake).
If you have no QTUM yet, please get some from market before you doing following staking settings.
Currently, Qtum Core wallet is the only wallet that support Qtum PoS staking. Note that other wallets like mobile wallet and Qtum Electrum are not able to stake for the time being.
Two ways to stake:
- Method 1：Staking with qtumd, using command line, suitable for Linux/OSX/Windows/Raspberry Pi users who are familiar with command line tools.
- Method 2：Staking with
qtum-qtwallet, with GUI, suitable for common users.
Either way works in the same way for staking, so you can choose either method you like.
Follow the guidance to run
qtumd:./qtumd -daemon
Staking is default on for qtumd, so no need for other options if you only want to stake.
First you can generate a new address with：
./qtum-cli getnewaddress
This will generate a new address with Prefix 'Q'. You can send some QTUM to this new generated address for staking. You can generate as many addresses as you like, and send arbitrary QTUM as you like for staking.
Note：The coin should wait for 2000 blocks before being able to stake, i.e. about 17 hours to MATURE..
After the Qtum node syncing to the latest block, you can check current balance with
./qtum-cli getbalance or get utxo list with./qtum-cli listunspent。（what is UTXO?）。Please do following steps after your coin is mature.
Check current staking info with：
./qtum-cli getstakinginfo
You might get the result like this：
{
"enabled": true,
"staking": true,
"errors": "",
"currentblocksize": 1000,
"currentblocktx": 0,
"pooledtx": 5,
"difficulty": 5683612.564280176,
"search-interval": 46,
"weight": 53206430,
"netstakeweight": 2278172497819029,
"expectedtime": 5480654870
}
enabled means if your wallet have enabled staking, it should be true by default. staking means if your wallet is currently staking (mining). weight stands for the amount of QTUM that is staking right now, with unit 10^-8QTUM, here in the example, we have 0.532QTUM staking. expectedtime stands for the expected time that you will get a reward, the unit is second.If your wallet is not encrypted, you can skip this section. However, for security, we recommand you encrypt your wallet. (How to encrypt?)
Qtum wallet can be encrypted with
encryptwallet. However, staking will be stopped when it is encrypted. For example, ./qtum-cli getstakinginfo for a encrypted wallet：{
"enabled": true,
"staking": false,
"errors": "",
"currentblocksize": 1000,
"currentblocktx": 0,
"pooledtx": 94,
"difficulty": 5788429.670171153,
"search-interval": 0,
"weight": 53206430,
"netstakeweight": 2438496688951881,
"expectedtime": 0
}
See
staking turns to false, which means wallet is not staking.You can use
walletpassphrase to unlock wallet for staking：./qtum-cli walletpassphrase "<your passphrase>" 99999999 true
After unlocking, you can double check
getstakinginfo, it should look the same with previous unlocked result, staking become true.How to use Qtum-qt tutorial? please refer to Qtum qt wallet tutorial. Current supported platform: Mac/Linux/Windows.
Launch the wallet.
If you already have some QTUM in your wallet, you might skip this step.
Note：The coin should wait for 2000 blocks before being able to stake, i.e. about 17 hours to MATURE..
The flash sign at the bottom of wallet shows staking info :
Solid black flash means it is staking now. For more information, you can put your mouse on the flash, e.g.:
staking info
Staking: if it is staking；Your weight is: How many QTUM are able to used for staking, unit is QTUM;Network weight is: How many QTUM are staking in the network, unit is QTUM；Expected time: expected time to get reward, unit is Day.
Hollow flash measn it is not staking
Possible reasons for not staking：
- 1.There is no coins of no mature coins (more than 2000 confirmations(blocks)) -- Solution: send some QTUM to the wallet and wait for 2000 blocks (about 17 hours);
No mature coins
Not staking due to encryption
No flash sign means staking is disabled
- 3.Staking is disabled -- Solution: enable staking in the qtum.conf (-staking=true)(How to set qtum.conf？)
Staking disabled
The block producer will get more than 4QTUM rewards, something to keep in mind:
- The reward come from a new transaction, you can check balance to see if you get the reward.
- Once succesfully stake, you will get 1QTUM reward immediately.
- The staked coins (UTXO) will be locked for 2000 blocks, during this period, it cannot be spent nor be used to stake.
Staking is by default enabled for Qtum wallet. If you need to disable staking for some reason (for example exchanges are always recommanded to disable staking), you might following anyone of the 3 ways below:
1 Add
-staking=false when running Qtum node：./qtumd -staking=false -daemon
For qt wallet, it is like：
./qtum-qt -staking=false
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