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Qtum Staking

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Last updated 1 year ago

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-qt wallet, with GUI, suitable for common users.

Either way works in the same way for staking, so you can choose either method you like.

Method 1:Staking with qtumd (command line)

1. Run qtumd

To run qtumd, please refer to"".

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.

2. Send some QTUM to your wallet

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..

Please do following steps after your coin is mature.

3. Check staking info

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.

4. How to stake if the wallet is encrypted?

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.

Method 2: Staking with qtum-qt wallet (official PC wallet)

1. Open Qtum qt wallet

Launch the wallet.

2. Send some QTUM to your 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..

3. Check staking status

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: 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 flash sign means staking is disabled

About block reward

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.

How to disable staking?

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

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。()。

If your wallet is not encrypted, you can skip this section. However, for security, we recommand you encrypt your wallet. ()

The meaning of the arguments can be found in the documents "".

How to use Qtum-qt tutorial? please refer to . Current supported platform: Mac/Linux/Windows.

If not, please send some QTUM to your wallet first. ().

staking info
No mature coins

2.Wallet is locked/encrypted -- Solution: unlock the wallet for staking. ()

Not staking due to encryption

3.Staking is disabled -- Solution: enable staking in the qtum.conf (-staking=true)()

Staking disabled

2 Add config staking=false in qtum.conf;()

3 Encrypt wallet, since encrypted wallet will automatically stop staking.()

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