I'm finally beginning to play catch up on Gridcoin so I'm glad to see this, and hope to be back on the train soon.

Yeah, I wrote that somewhat unclear didn't I. Sorry. I meant it rose to .20, dropped to .10 and held there, and then when our forking problem sprung up, it dropped further. 0.04 yesterday I think.

Thanks. I just couldn't help thinking you could desribe the "boom indicator" as "The little dump before the jump." But to each his own. :-)

Both good points! Staking more frequently is best, but for folks who just want to go solo, I want to hold out some hope. Thanks for bringing good balance to that.

Hmm. In my second round of experiments, once I hit about 1500 I couldn't stop it from staking and had to work that into my calculations. Mind you, that's about every 4 or so days at this point.

I think I can make it. I'll try to be there.

This post contains links to the wallet software. Please see gridcoin.us for guides to getting started. I would highly suggest opting to join the pool, unless you are planning on buying at minimum a few

I'll be unable to attend this one, but there's always next time.

You certainly may use it ... unless you're going to mercilessly make fun of me. LOL. Happily I am working on a follow up right now with more data points, and more data in general.

I recommended Solo to him because I was planning on kick-starting him. Benefits of being the Father-in -law. :-) There are a few benefits to pool mining. Lower cost of entry. You can start with 0 and just

Also, just a couple of suggestions either for format or at least for discussion: Suggestions for the next hangout: Keep it to a set time frame. It is really hard to attend an open ended meeting. Hard

I think it might be fun to talk about stake time expectations in this one, especially with the findings in my stake weight experiment published today on Steemit. Hopefully by hangout I'll have some

That was the point of my experiment @xlm567. I'm glad you found it useful. I'm running a second followup to verify and test a few other variables now.

Thank you! I went back to my data and discovered that I did have Net weight data for most of the test. As a result, with your prompting I have added that chart. Take a look. In my second comparison experiment

As a matter fact, network weight will be included.

OH, and you might be interested to note that a new experiment is in the works. "trust but verify".

Keep it up @grc-son. I'm looking forward to Flyp's return as well.

Staking is absolutely based upon network weight. But please note that this experiment was run before the forking occurred, and was in fact terminated when the forking began. Everyone's comfort level for

Please note that I stated the experiment was terminated by the forking, so all of the "normal" network activity was happening during the experiment. In fact I state in the article that the forking

Are you posting these all to Dsound in order? If so I have one request for Dsound: allow me to turn up playback speed. I like it when chipmunks read the news.