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Fix: staking is enabled but you never win

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Applies to: PoSV v2 staking on v4.22.x

The key idea

Your chance of receiving a stake depends on:

  • coin age (how long your coins have been eligible),
  • network conditions / difficulty (how many coins are staking),
  • your effective stake weight (how many coins are actually competing).

Admins often explain this as a “lottery ticket” model: small balances may take a very long time to win. 1

Quick checks

  1. Confirm staking is actually enabled: see Staking doesn’t start
  2. Leave Core running long enough — many users underestimate how long small balances take. 2

Practical expectations

  • Very small balances can look “stuck” for weeks/months (or longer).
  • Consolidating many tiny UTXOs into fewer can help practical stake behavior (but do this carefully; fees apply and you may reset coin age).

Footnotes

  1. Telegram export (ReddCoinOfficial), obito, 26 Feb 2024 10:34 UTC-05, message1983214 (messages946.html). (Coin-age/difficulty explanation; lottery analogy; small balances may take very long.) ↩

  2. Telegram export (ReddCoinOfficial), obito, 6 May 2025 12:45 UTC-05, message2023026 (messages979.html). (Example: 120,000 RDD is “small” and may take a while; includes unlock + anvil steps.) ↩